June 28 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for June 28
In the headlines today:

2003	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, starring Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom, makes its world premiere at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
2000	6-year-old Elian Gonzalez is returned to Cuba, seven months after being rescued off the Florida coast.
1996	The Citadel, a military school in Charleston, SC, agrees to admit women for the first time in its 153-year history.
1985	Route 66, the legendary east-west route from Chicago, IL, to Santa Monica, California, is decertified as a federal highway.
1948	Tom Harmon announces he is retiring from professional football.
1919	Future US president Harry S. Truman marries Elizabeth 'Bess' Wallace.
1919	WWI ends with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
1914	WWI begins as Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his pregnant wife are assassinated while visiting Sarajevo, Bosnia.
1894	The US Congress declares Labor Day, the first Monday in September, a national holiday.
1869	R.W. Wood is certified as the first Surgeon General of the US Navy.
1838	Queen Victoria of Great Britain is crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.
1836	James Madison, the fourth president of the US, dies in Montpelier, VA, at age 85.