TODAY in HISTORY

Today is Wednesday, June 28, the 179th day of 2017. There are 186 days left in the year.

1360 Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.

1519 Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

1776 Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.

1838 Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

1841 The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier 1846 Adolphe Sax patents the saxophone

1859 The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle, England.

1894 Labour Day becomes an official US holiday.

1895 El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Greater Republic of Central America.

1896 An explosion in the Newton Coal Company’s Twin Shaft Mine in Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.

1904 The SS Norge runs aground and sinks

1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.

1919 The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I. 1926 Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.

1936 The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.

1942 World War II: Nazi Germany starts its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue

1948 The Tito–Stalin Split results in expulsion of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from the Cominform.

1948 Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.

1950 Suspected communist sympathisers between as many as 100,000 to 200,000 are executed in the Bodo League massacre. 1964 Malcolm X forms the Organisation of Afro-American Unity.

1969 Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.

1991 Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield’s ear.

2004 Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the US-led rule of that nation.

2009 Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup after a failed coup.