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SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 2008

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  • Published Jun 27, 2008 5:45 pm KST
  • Updated Jun 27, 2008 5:45 pm KST

Today is Saturday, June 28, the 180th day of 2008. There are 186 days left in the year.

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

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 WW1

1919 _ Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed

1945 _ Polish Provisional Government of National Unity set up by Soviets

1950 _ North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea