06-28-2005, 05:05 AM
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June 28th
1577 ~ Birthday of Peter Paul Rubens, German Painter.
1712 ~ Birthday of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Franco-Swiss Philosopher.
1880 ~ Ned Kelly the Australian bushranger captured at Glenrowan.
1906 ~ Birthday of Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics.
1914 ~ Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophia were killed by a Serbian nationalist, the casus belli of World War I.
1919 ~ The Treaty of Versailles was signed, ending World War I with Germany.
1926 ~ Birthday of Mel Brooks, Filmmaker.
1969 ~ Stonewall riots in New York city marked the beginning of the modern gay rights era.
1992 ~ Death of Mikhail Tal, eighth World Chess Champion.
2004 ~ Sovereign power was handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule.
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