Yesterday in History June 28 1797 - France occupies Ionian Islands of Greece. 1846 - The saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax in Paris, France. 1881 - Immigration Act of New Zealand restricts Japanese immigration. 1895 - El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Greater Republic of Central America. 1914 - Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife are assassinated at Sarajevo, igniting the First World War. 1919 - Treaty of Versailles ending the First World War is signed in France. 1948 - Yugoslavia is expelled from Communist group Cominform for hostility to Soviet Union. 1976 - The Seychelles becomes independent after 102 years under British rule. 1981 - A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republic Party. 1988 - US military attache to Greece, William E. Nordeen, is killed by a powerful car bomb that blows his armour- plated car off road. 1991 - Yugoslav army declares a ceasefire after nearly two days of fighting to keep Slovenia from seceding. 1994 - Three masked gunmen seize a bus and take about 40 passengers hostage near the southern Russian city of Mineralnye Vody. 1998 - Slavko Dokmanovic, Serb former mayor of Vukovar, Croatia, hangs himself in his cell while the International War Crimes Tribunal considers a verdict on his role in a massacre of 200 people. 1999 - Computer hackers deface the US Army’s main web site after having hacked into the White House, FBI and US Senate web sites. 2001 - Yugoslavia hands over former president Slobodan Milosevic to the UN war crimes tribunal. 2004 - US hands over sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government. 2009 - Dubai government launches the ‘ Dubai 2020’ initiative in which it aims to host the World Expo and Olympics in 2020. 2011 - Christine Lagarde becomes the first woman to head the International Monetary Fund after a consensus decision of 24 executive board members. 2012 - UAE helps broker first bilateral agreement between Somalia and Somaliland in 21 years.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 20:37:57 +0000
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