ON THIS DAY: June 28, 2016

Posted on June 28, 2016 by wordcloud9

June 28th is:Paul Bunyan and Blue

Paul Bunyan Day

Tapioca Day

Data Privacy Day

International Body Piercing Day

National Holidays Around the World

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Bosnia and Herzegovina – St. Vitus Day

Serbia – St. Vitus Day

Ukraine – Constitution Day

On This Day in HISTORY

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1712 – Philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau is born

1838 – Queen Victoria crowned in Westminster Abbey

1846 – Adolphe Sax patents the saxophone

1859 – First dog show held in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England

1894 – Labor Day becomes an American national holiday

1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria assassinated 

1919 – Treaty of Versailles signed ending World War I exactly five years after it began

1952 – Nelson Mandela and other anti-Apartheid leaders jailed in South Africa

1976 – The first women enter the U.S. Air Force Academy

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