FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 2013

Today is Friday, June 28, the 179th day of 2013. 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)

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 WW I

1919 ― Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed

1950 ― North Korean forces capture Seoul, capital of South Korea

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

1968 ― Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers