Today is Monday, June 29, the 180th day of 2008. There are 185 days left in the year.
1613 _ Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down
1913 _ Beginning of the second Balkan War
1916 _ Boeing aircraft flies for first time
1949 _ South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages
1949 _ U.S. troops withdraw from Korea after WW II
1958 _ Brazil beats Sweden 5-2 in soccer's Sixth World Cup at Stockholm
1963 _ Beatles' first song ``From Me to You" hits the U.K. charts
1964 _ First draft of Star Trek's pilot ``The Cage" released
1977 _ Supreme Court ruled out death penalty for rapists of adults
1984 _ USSR offers to start talking about banning SDI