Today is Monday, June 28, the 180th day of 2004. There are 186 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Monday, June 28, the 180th day of 2004. There are 186 days left in the year. On this date in 1914, Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sofia, are assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serb nationalist -- the event which triggered World War I.
In 1778, Molly Pitcher (Mary Ludwig Hays) carries water to American soldiers at the Revolutionary War Battle of Monmouth, N.J. In 1836, the fourth president of the United States, James Madison, dies in Montpelier, Va. In 1904, blind-deaf student Helen Keller graduates with honors from Radcliffe College. In 1919, the Treaty of Versailles is signed in France, ending World War I. In 1944, the Republican national convention in Chicago nominates New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for president and Ohio Gov. John W. Bricker for vice president. In 1950, North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea. In 1951, a T.V. version of the radio program "Amos 'N' Andy" premieres on CBS. (While criticized for racial stereotyping, it is the first network TV series to feature an all-black cast.) In 1978, the Supreme Court orders the University of California at Davis Medical School to admit Allan Bakke, a white man who'd argued he was a victim of reverse racial discrimination. In 1996, The Citadel votes to admit women, ending a 153-year-old men-only policy at the South Carolina military school. In 1994, North and South Korea set July 25-27 as the dates for a historic summit between the leaders of both countries (the summit is derailed by the death of North Korean President Kim Il Sung the following month.); President Clinton becomes the first chief executive in U.S. history to set up a personal legal defense fund and ask Americans to contribute to it. In 1999, President Clinton, announcing even bigger projected budget surpluses, says the government could drastically reduce the national debt while still buttressing Social Security and Medicare.
June 28, 1979: Wearing buttons reading "Senior Power," nearly 100 Ohioans troop up to Capitol Hill to lobby for national health insurance and other favored programs.
Youngstown City Council clears the way for construction of a 16-story apartment building for the elderly to be built by Andrew Burin of International Leased Housing Inc.
Acting on requests from downtown merchants, Sharon City Council gives first reading to an ordinance that would open the North Water Avenue municipal parking lot to totally free parking and increase the free parking time on State Street from 10 minutes to 30 minutes.
June 28, 1964: Joseph Carlini upsets the incumbent, Irwin Ferencak, for presidency of Local 1331, United Steelworkers of America, in a close election by employees of Republic Steel Corp.
The Kroger Co. has sold more than a billion dollars worth of groceries so far in 1964, a record for the Cincinnati-based supermarket chain.
Playing at the Kenley Players in Warren, Bert Parks and Sherry O'Neil in "Damn Yankees." Coming to Idora Park, Maynard Ferguson and his orchestra.
June 28, 1954: Youngstown Mayor Frank X. Kryzan throws his support behind a proposal to build a huge new military air base near the Ravenna Arsenal to serve as a headquarters for Air Force and Naval reserve air training and other military flying in Northeastern Ohio.
A 26-year-old former Youngstown man drowns in windswept Lake Erie while he and a companion tried to rescue a woman at Painseville Beach State Park. Melvin A. Linville was swept under by heavy seas. Lifeguards saved the woman, but couldn't locate Linville.
R.C. Reynolds, superintendent of Hubbard Schools for six years, resigns on the eve of a special election on a 7-mill school levy. Reynolds says he as been offered a superintendency in Franklin County.
June 28, 1929: With an additional 2,435 telephones installed in Youngstown since January, the city now has 15.2 telephones for every 100 inhabitants, and 68.1 telephones for every 100 families in the local service area.
U.S. Rep. John G. Cooper, Youngstown Republican, asks a Senate subcommittee to afford tariff protection for calfskin tanners, declaring that imports in 1928 accounted for 41 percent of U.S. consumption and the industry is entitled to some protection.
Dr. H.E. Welch, Youngstown health commissioner, endorses a city ordinance that would require the inoculation of animals against rabies, as is suggested by the Journal of the American Veterinary Medicine Association.