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June 28, 2000
UNDATED,
AP - Today is Monday, July 3, the 185th day of 2000. There are 181 days
left in the year.
Highlights
in history on this date:
321
- Roman emperor Constantine, a Christian, proclaims Sunday a day of rest
and religious observance.
1583
- Russia's Czar Ivan the Terrible kills his son Ivan in a fit
of rage.
1608
- Samuel de Champlain, French explorer, lays foundation of Canadian
city of Quebec.
1665
- Dutch fleet is defeated by English off Lowestoft, England.
1695
- British fleet bombards St. Malo in France.
1778
- Prussia declares war on Austria, starting War of Bavarian Succession.
1849
- French forces enter Rome despite resistance by Giuseppe Garibaldi
and restore Pope Pius IX.
1863
- Confederates are forced to retreat on the last day of the Battle
of Gettysburg, turning the fortunes in the American Civil War. 37,000 fell
on both sides in three days of battle.
1866
- Prussians defeat Austrians at Battle of Koenigraetz, deciding
the Seven Weeks' War and effectively excluding Austria from a
Prussian-dominated Germany.
1881
- Britain persuades Turkey to sign convention with Greece, whereby
Greece gets Thessaly and parts of Epirus.
1896
- Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of Turkey, agrees to introduce self-government
in Crete, but Greece continues to support insurgents.
1944
- Soviet forces take Minsk from Germans, capturing 100,000 troops.
1950
- U.S. and North Korean troops clash for first time in Korean
War.
1954
- Food rationing, imposed during World War II, ends in Britain.
1962
- Algeria becomes independent after 132 years of French rule.
1971
- Indonesians vote in their country's first national election
in 16 years.
1972
- Pakistan and India sign a peace treaty, ending hostilities triggered
by the civil war in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh.
1991
- Yugoslav military commanders dispatch troops and tanks towards
breakaway republics of Croatia and Slovenia but order troops to hold their
fire unless attacked.
1992
- The U.S. military joins the international airlift to Yugoslavia.
1993
- Ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide signs an accord
in New York with the military that will return him to office by Oct. 30.
1994
- French troops and the rebels who oppose their presence skirmish
briefly in Rwanda, the first time the French humanitarian mission has
enters into combat.
1995
- Roman Catholics riot in Northern Ireland, outraged at an early
parole from prison of a British paratrooper convicted of killing a Belfast
woman.
1996
- Boris Yeltsin decisively defeats communist challenger Gennady
Zyuganov for a second term as Russian president.
1997
- The Parliament of Western Samoa votes to amend the constitution
to simplify the country's name to Samoa.
1998
- Colombia's second-largest guerrilla group releases 15 young
women held hostage for two weeks, accused by the rebels of being army
spies disguised as good samaritans.
1999
- In their first matchup in three years, world chess champion
Garry Kasparov bests his bitter rival, Anatoly Karpov to win the Siemens
Giants chess tournament.
Today's Birthdays:
John
Clare, English poet (1793-1864); Franz Kafka, Austrian author
(1883-1924); Tom Stoppard, British playwright (1937--); Jean-Claude
Duvalier, exiled President of Haiti (1951--); Ken Russell, English film
director (1927--); Tom Cruise, U.S. actor (1962--).
Thought For Today:
To
err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer -
Paul Ehrlich, American scientist. |