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