Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Today in History.....June 28

On this day in …

* 1778, "Molly Pitcher" (Mary Ludwig Hays) carried water to American soldiers at the Revolutionary War Battle of Monmouth, N.J.

* 1914, Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sofia, were assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serb nationalist --- the event that triggered World War I

* 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War I

* 1939, Pan American Airways began regular trans-Atlantic air service

* 1950, North Korean forces captured Seoul, South Korea

* 1978, the Supreme Court ordered the University of California at Davis Medical School to admit Allan Bakke, a white man who'd argued he was a victim of reverse racial discrimination

* 1996, The Citadel voted to admit women, ending a 153-year-old men-only policy at the South Carolina military school

* 2000, seven months after he was cast adrift in the Florida Straits, Elian Gonzalez was returned to his native Cuba

* 2001, a unanimous federal appeals court reversed the court-ordered breakup of Microsoft, but ruled that the software giant had violated antitrust laws, and appointed another judge to determine a new punishment. ALSO: Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic was handed over by Serbia to the U.N. war crimes tribunal

* 2005, on the first anniversary of Iraqi sovereignty, President Bush, addressing the nation from Fort Bragg, N.C., rejected suggestions that he set a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq or send in more troops as he counseled patience for Americans who were questioning the war's painful costs

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