HISTORY AT A GLANCE
TODAY is Wednesday, June 28, the 179th day of 2017. There are 186 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by Bosnia Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip, 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. 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 1945 – Poland’s Soviet-allied Provisional Government of
National Unity is formed over a month after V-E Day. 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 – Korean War: Seoul is captured by North Korean
troops. 1950 – Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers, argued to be between 100,000 and 200,000 are executed in the Bodo League massacre. 1950 – Korean War: North Korean Army conducts Seoul
National University Hospital Massacre. 1964 – Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American
Unity. 1967 – Israel annexes East Jerusalem. 1969 – Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the
start of the Gay Rights Movement. 1987 – For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht. 1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; Seven people are killed, 660 injured. 1997 – Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the 3rd
round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield’s ear. 2001 – Slobodan Miloševic is deported to ICTY to stand trial. 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 following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran Constitution. This was the start of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis.