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June 28, 2000   

   

UNDATED, AP - Today is Monday, July 3, the 185th day of 2000. There are 181 days left in the year.

         

Highlights in history on this date:

     321 - Roman emperor Constantine, a Christian, proclaims Sunday a day of rest and religious observance.

     1583 - Russia's Czar Ivan the Terrible kills his son Ivan in a fit of rage.

     1608 - Samuel de Champlain, French explorer, lays foundation of Canadian city of Quebec.

     1665 - Dutch fleet is defeated by English off Lowestoft, England.

     1695 - British fleet bombards St. Malo in France.

     1778 - Prussia declares war on Austria, starting War of Bavarian Succession.

     1849 - French forces enter Rome despite resistance by Giuseppe Garibaldi and restore Pope Pius IX.

     1863 - Confederates are forced to retreat on the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg, turning the fortunes in the American Civil War. 37,000 fell on both sides in three days of battle.

     1866 - Prussians defeat Austrians at Battle of Koenigraetz, deciding the Seven Weeks' War and effectively excluding Austria from a Prussian-dominated Germany.

     1881 - Britain persuades Turkey to sign convention with Greece, whereby Greece gets Thessaly and parts of Epirus.

     1896 - Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of Turkey, agrees to introduce self-government in Crete, but Greece continues to support insurgents.

     1944 - Soviet forces take Minsk from Germans, capturing 100,000 troops.

     1950 - U.S. and North Korean troops clash for first time in Korean War.

     1954 - Food rationing, imposed during World War II, ends in Britain.

     1962 - Algeria becomes independent after 132 years of French rule.

     1971 - Indonesians vote in their country's first national election in 16 years.

     1972 - Pakistan and India sign a peace treaty, ending hostilities triggered by the civil war in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh.

     1991 - Yugoslav military commanders dispatch troops and tanks towards breakaway republics of Croatia and Slovenia but order troops to hold their fire unless attacked.

     1992 - The U.S. military joins the international airlift to Yugoslavia.

     1993 - Ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide signs an accord in New York with the military that will return him to office by Oct. 30.

     1994 - French troops and the rebels who oppose their presence skirmish briefly in Rwanda, the first time the French humanitarian mission has enters into combat.

     1995 - Roman Catholics riot in Northern Ireland, outraged at an early parole from prison of a British paratrooper convicted of killing a Belfast woman.

     1996 - Boris Yeltsin decisively defeats communist challenger Gennady Zyuganov for a second term as Russian president.

     1997 - The Parliament of Western Samoa votes to amend the constitution to simplify the country's name to Samoa.

     1998 - Colombia's second-largest guerrilla group releases 15 young women held hostage for two weeks, accused by the rebels of being army spies disguised as good samaritans.

     1999 - In their first matchup in three years, world chess champion Garry Kasparov bests his bitter rival, Anatoly Karpov to win the Siemens Giants chess tournament.

     

     Today's Birthdays:

     John Clare, English poet (1793-1864); Franz Kafka, Austrian author (1883-1924); Tom Stoppard, British playwright (1937--); Jean-Claude Duvalier, exiled President of Haiti (1951--); Ken Russell, English film director (1927--); Tom Cruise, U.S. actor

(1962--).

     

     Thought For Today:

     To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer - Paul Ehrlich, American scientist.

    


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