June 28<\/p>\n
1098 \u2013 The army of the First Crusade under the command of Prince Behemond of Taranto, defeats the moslem army of Kerbogha of Mosul.<\/p>\n
1776 \u2013 During the Revolution, the Battle of Sullivan’s Island in South Carolina ends with an American victory<\/p>\n
1778 – During the Revolution, the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse in New Jersey is a draw with both the Continental and British forces suffering heavy casualties.<\/p>\n
1838 \u2013 Victoria of the United Kingdom if formally crowned Queen Regnant.<\/p>\n
1846 \u2013 Adolphe Sax patents the Saxophone; and now you know why it’s called that.<\/p>\n
1865 \u2013 The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.<\/p>\n
1870 \u2013 Congress establishes the first federal holidays; New Year Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.<\/p>\n
1894 \u2013 Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.<\/p>\n
1896 \u2013 An explosion in the Newton Coal Company’s Twin Shaft Mine<\/em> in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in killing 58 miners.<\/p>\n 1902 \u2013 Congress passes the Spooner Act<\/em>, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the construction of the Panama Canal.<\/p>\n 1914 \u2013 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo beginning the diplomatic bumbling that results in World War I<\/p>\n 1919 \u2013 The Treaty of Versailles is signed, officially ending World War I.<\/p>\n 1926 \u2013 Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft<\/em> is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies, Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft<\/em> and Benz & Companie<\/em>.<\/p>\n 1950 \u2013 Seoul falls for the first time to invading North Korean forces.<\/p>\n 1978 \u2013 In the case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke,<\/em> the\u00a0 Supreme Court bars quota systems in college admissions.<\/p>\n 2004 \u2013 During the Iraq War, sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending U.S. led rule of that nation.<\/p>\n 2016 \u2013 An attack by Syrian moslem ISIL terrorists at Turkey’s Istanbul Atat\u00fcrk Airport kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 28 1098 \u2013 The army of the First Crusade under the command of Prince Behemond of Taranto, defeats the moslem army of Kerbogha of Mosul. 1776 \u2013 During the Revolution, the Battle of Sullivan’s Island in South Carolina ends with an American victory 1778 – During the Revolution, the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse in … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56422"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93954,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56422\/revisions\/93954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}