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2012-06-27 17:49

THURSDAY, JUN 28, 2012

Today is Thursday, June 28, the 180th day of 2012. There are 186 days left in the year.

1820 ― Tomato is proven nonpoisonous

1838 ― Britain's Queen Victoria crowned in Westminster Abbey

1859 ― First dog show held (Newcastle-on-Tyne, England)

1905 ― Russian sailors mutiny aboard the battleship ``Potemkin"

1914 ― Assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophia, in Sarajevo by a Serbian Nationalist, Gavrilo Princip. This incident precipitated a war with Serbia, eventually starting WW1

1919 ― Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed

1950 ― North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea

1971 ― Supreme Court overturns draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali

1974 ― Wings release ``Band on the Run" & ``Zoo Gang" in U.K.

1975 ― Golfer Lee Trevino is struck by lightning at Western Open (Ill.)



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