06-28-2006, 05:25 AM
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June 28th
1577 ~ Birthday of Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish Baroque Painter.
1712 ~ Birthday of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Franco-Swiss Philosopher.
1880 ~ The Australian bushranger Ned Kelly was 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.
1926 ~ Birthday of Mel Brooks, Filmmaker.
1992 ~ Death of Mikhail Tal, eighth World Chess Champion.
1996 ~ The Citadel voted to admit women, ending a 153-year-old men-only policy at the South Carolina military school.
2004 ~ Sovereignty returned to Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule.
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