Today is Thursday, June 28, the 180th day of 2012. 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)
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
1950 ― North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea
1971 ― Supreme Court overturns draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali
1974 ― Wings release ``Band on the Run" & ``Zoo Gang" in U.K.
1975 ― Golfer Lee Trevino is struck by lightning at Western Open (Ill.)