Today in History
June 28
June 28
1635 | The French colony of Guadeloupe is established in the Caribbean. | |
1675 | Frederick William of Brandenburg crushes the Swedes. | |
1709 | Russians defeat the Swedes and Cossacks at the Battle of Poltava. | |
1776 | Colonists repulse a British sea attack on Charleston, South Carolina. | |
1778 | Mary “Molly Pitcher” Hays McCauley, wife of an American artilleryman, carries water to the soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth. | |
1839 | Cinque and other Africans are kidnapped and sold into slavery in Cuba. | |
1862 | Fighting continues between Union and Confederate forces during the Seven Days’ campaign. | |
1863 | General George Meade replaces General Joseph Hooker three days before the Battle of Gettysburg. | |
1874 | The Freedmen’s Bank, created to assist former slaves in the United States, closes. Customers of the bank lose $3 million. | |
1884 | Congress declares Labor Day a legal holiday. | |
1902 | Congress passes the Spooner bill, authorizing a canal to be built across the isthmus of Panama. | |
1911 | Samuel J. Battle becomes the first African-American policeman in New York City. | |
1914 | Austria’s Archduke Francis Ferdinand is assassinated at Sarajevo, Serbia. | |
1919 | Germany signs the Treaty of Versailles under protest. | |
1921 | A coal strike in Britain is settled after three months. | |
1930 | More than 1,000 communists are routed during an assault on the British consulate in London. | |
1938 | Congress creates the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to insure construction loans. | |
1942 | German troops launch an offensive to seize Soviet oil fields in the Caucasus and the city of Stalingrad. | |
1945 | General Douglas MacArthur announces the end of Japanese resistance in the Philippines. | |
1949 | The last U.S. combat troops are called home from Korea, leaving only 500 advisers. | |
1950 | General Douglas MacArthur arrives in South Korea as Seoul falls to the North. | |
1954 | French troops begin to pull out of Vietnam’s Tonkin province. | |
1964 | Malcolm X founds the Organization for Afro-American Unity to seek independence for blacks in the Western Hemisphere. | |
1967 | 14 people are shot during race riots in Buffalo, New York. | |
1970 | Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay] stands before the Supreme Court regarding his refusal of induction into the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. | |
1971 | The Supreme Court overturns the draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali. | |
1972 | Richard Nixon announces that no new draftees will be sent to Vietnam. | |
1976 | The first women enter the U.S. Air Force Academy. | |
Born on June 28 | ||
1491 | Henry VIII, King of England (1509-1547), founder of the Church of England. | |
1577 | Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter. | |
1712 | Jean Jacques Rousseau, French social philosopher (The Social Contract). | |
1867 | Luigi Pirandello, Italian playwright (Six Characters in Search of an Author). | |
1873 | Alexis Carrel, Nobel Prize-winning French surgeon and biologist. | |
1891 | Esther Forbes, author (Johnny Tremain). | |
1902 | Richard Rodgers, American composer. | |
1906 | Maria Goeppert Mayer, Nobel Prize-winning physicist. | |
1909 | Eric Ambler, British mystery writer (The Dark Frontier, Uncommon Danger). | |
1926 | Mel Brooks, comedian, actor, and director (The Producers, Blazing Saddles). | |
1947 | Mark Helprin, novelist (Winter’s Tale). |
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