MONDAY, JUNE 28, 2010

Today is Monday, June 28, the 179th day of 2010. There are 186 days left in the year.

1245 _ first Council of Lyons (13th ecumenical council) opens

1820 _ Tomato is proven nonpoisonous

1894 _ Labor Day established as a federal employees holiday

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

1965 _ First U.S. ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by President Johnson

1968 _ Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers

1971 _ Supreme Court overturns draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali