Today is Thursday, June 26, the 178th day of 2008. There are 188 days left in the year.
1797 _ Charles Newbold patents first cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil!
1900 _ Dr. Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever
1919 _ First issue of NY Daily News published
1945 _ U.N. Charter signed by 50 nations in S.F.
1960 _ British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
1960 _ Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day)
1963 _ Kennedy visits W. Berlin ``Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner)
1968 _ Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands returned to Japan by U.S.
1974 _ Liz Taylor's fifth divorce (Richard Burton)
1978 _ Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France