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Historical Events
on June 28th
- Lead Story
- Workers assemble first Corvette in Flint, Michigan,1953
- American Revolution
- Former President James Madison dies,1836
- Automotive
- DaimlerChrysler announces Smart's arrival in United States,2006
- Civil War
- Confederates capture the St. Nicolas,1862
- Cold War
- Yugoslavia expelled from COMINFORM,1948
- Crime
- A teenage girl's boyfriend murders her parents,1975
- A serial rapist strikes in Allentown,1993
- Disaster
- Two big quakes rock California,1992
- General Interest
- Charles elected Holy Roman emperor,1519
- Archduke Ferdinand assassinated,1914
- Keynes predicts economic chaos,1919
- The Stonewall Riot,1969
- Hollywood
- Lasky Company merges with Famous Players, later to become Paramount,1916
- Literary
- Robert Louis Stevenson sets sail for the South Seas,1888
- Music
- Louis Armstrong records "West End Blues",1928
- Old West
- Western writer Emerson Hough is born,1857
- Presidential
- Harry S. Truman marries Bess Wallace,1919
- Sports
- Mike Tyson bites ear,1997
- Vietnam War
- U.S. forces launch first offensive,1965
- Nixon announces draftees will not go to Vietnam,1972
- World War I
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated,1914
- World War II
- Britain recognizes General Charles de Gaulle as the leader of the Free French,1940
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