TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JUNE 28
1389 Ottomans defeat Serbian army in the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe
1635 The French colony of Guadeloupe is established in the Caribbean.
1770 Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia
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.
1846 The saxophone is patented
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 Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip at 10.45, the casus belli of WWI
1919 Germany signs the Treaty of Versailles under protest.
1938 Congress creates the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to insure construction loans.
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.
1971 The Supreme Court overturns the draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali.
1978 The Supreme Court ruled in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke that the use of quotas in affirmative action programs was not permissible.
1996 The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, voted to admit women
2000 Elian Gonzalez was returned to his father in Cuba.
2001 Serbia handed over Slobodan Milosevic over to the UN war crimes tribunal.
2004 In Iraq, the United States transferred power back to the Iraqis two days earlier than planned.
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