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06-28-2006, 09:19 AM
On This Day
This Day in History
1778: In the Battle of Monmouth during the Revolutionary War, American forces led by General George Washington and aided by a woman known as Molly Pitcher defeat the British.
1841: The ballet Giselle premieres in Paris, with music by Adolph Charles Adam, choreography by Jules Perrot and Jean Coralli, and the title role danced by Carlotta Grisi.
1914: Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinates Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinand, leading Austria-Hungary to declare war on Serbia a month later, beginning World War I.
1928: The plane of Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer who was the first person to reach the South Pole, disappears on a flight to rescue the Italian explorer Umberto Nobile in the Arctic.
1939: Pan American Airways debuts the first regular transatlantic air service, flying from New York to Lisbon, Portugal, and Marseilles, France.
1971: The Supreme Court overturns the conviction of boxer Muhammad Ali for draft evasion, finding that his refusal to fight in Vietnam is based on the religious principles of Islam.
Born on This Day
Henry VIII, English king (1491)
Maria Goeppert-Mayer, physicist (1906)
Peter Paul Rubens, painter (1577)
Luigi Pirandello, playwright (1867)
Gilda Radner, comedian (1946)
John Elway, quarterback (1960)
This Day in History
1778: In the Battle of Monmouth during the Revolutionary War, American forces led by General George Washington and aided by a woman known as Molly Pitcher defeat the British.
1841: The ballet Giselle premieres in Paris, with music by Adolph Charles Adam, choreography by Jules Perrot and Jean Coralli, and the title role danced by Carlotta Grisi.
1914: Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinates Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinand, leading Austria-Hungary to declare war on Serbia a month later, beginning World War I.
1928: The plane of Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer who was the first person to reach the South Pole, disappears on a flight to rescue the Italian explorer Umberto Nobile in the Arctic.
1939: Pan American Airways debuts the first regular transatlantic air service, flying from New York to Lisbon, Portugal, and Marseilles, France.
1971: The Supreme Court overturns the conviction of boxer Muhammad Ali for draft evasion, finding that his refusal to fight in Vietnam is based on the religious principles of Islam.
Born on This Day
Henry VIII, English king (1491)
Maria Goeppert-Mayer, physicist (1906)
Peter Paul Rubens, painter (1577)
Luigi Pirandello, playwright (1867)
Gilda Radner, comedian (1946)
John Elway, quarterback (1960)