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1778 - Mary "Molly Pitcher" Hays McCauley, wife of an American
artilleryman, carried water to the soldiers during the Battle of
Monmouth and, supposedly, took her husband's place at his gun after he
was overcome with heat.
June 28,
1836
Former President James Madison dies
On
this day in 1836, James Madison, drafter of the Constitution, recorder
of the Constitutional Convention, author of the “Federalist Papers” and
fourth president of the United States, dies on his tobacco plantation
in Virginia.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=735
1902 - The
U.S. Congress passed the Spooner bill, it authorized a canal to be built across the isthmus of Panama.
June 28, 1965
U.S. forces launch first offensive
In
the first major offensive ordered for U.S. forces, 3,000 troops of the
173rd Airborne Brigade--in conjunction with 800 Australian soldiers and
a Vietnamese airborne unit--assault a jungle area known as Viet Cong
Zone D, 20 miles northeast of Saigon. The operation was called off
after three days when it failed to make any major contract with the
enemy. One American was killed and nine Americans and four Australians
were wounded. The State Department assured the American public that the
operation was in accord with Johnson administration policy on the role
of U.S. troops.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1935
1972 -
U.S. President Nixon announced that no new draftees would be sent to Vietnam.
1978 - The
U.S.
Supreme Court ordered the medical school at the University of
California at Davis to admit Allan Bakke. Bakke, a white man, argued he
had been a victim of reverse racial discrimination.
2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court declared that a Nebraska law that
outlawed "partial birth abortions" was unconstitutional. About 30 U.S.
states had similar laws at the time of the ruling.
2004 - The U.S. turned over official sovereignty to Iraq's interim
leadership. The event took place two days earlier than previously
announced to thwart insurgents' attempts at undermining the transfer.