Friday, June 28, 1996

"Who can be against stopping violence? This is about saving lives." -- O.J. Simpson


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  • The Senate Judiciary Committee begins a hearing today on White House access to FBI background files.

  • PC-Meter holds telephone briefing to release consumer rankings of the top 25 Websites. Steve Coffey, vice president, will speak.

  • Olympic track star Michael Johnson and National Drug Policy Director Barry McCaffrey hold news conference to announce new "Stay Drug Free" public service announcements. Comments will follow in the White House stakeout area on the North Lawn.

  • On Saturday, June 29, a presidential election is held in Iceland.

  • On Sunday, June 30, the U.N. mandate in Haiti expires.

  • Monday, July 1, is the effective date of the world's first law permitting euthanasia for the terminally ill, in Northern Territory, Australia.

  • On Tuesday, July 2, more than 550 veterans from the U.S. and Britain are expected at 16th National Veterans Wheelchair Games to be held in Seattle, Washington. Through July 6.

  • On Wednesday, July 3, voters cast ballots for Russian President Boris Yeltsin or challenger Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov in presidential runoff elections.

  • In 1778, "Molly Pitcher" (Mary Ludwig Hays) carried water to American soldiers at the Revolutionary War Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey.

  • In 1836, the fourth president of the United States, James Madison, died in Montpelier, Virginia.

  • In 1894, Labor Day was established as a holiday for federal employees on the first Monday of September.

  • In 1914, Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sofia, were assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serb nationalist. The event triggered World War I.

  • In 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War I.

  • In 1919, Harry S. Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence, Missouri.

  • In 1934, President Roosevelt signed into law the National Housing Act, which established the Federal Housing Administration.

  • In 1950, North Korean forces captured Seoul, South Korea.

  • In 1951, a TV version of the radio program "Amos 'N' Andy" began a two-year run on CBS. (Although criticized for racial stereotyping, it was the first network TV series to feature an all-black cast).

  • In 1978, the Supreme Court ordered the University of California at Davis Medical School to admit Allan Bakke, a white man who argued he'd been a victim of reverse racial discrimination.

  • In 1986, President Reagan used his weekly radio address to blast sweeping trade legislation passed by the House, saying it would "jeopardize our hard-won economic prosperity."

  • In 1991, two people were killed when an earthquake measuring six on the Richter scale shook southern California.

  • In 1995, the House overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment to protect the American flag from desecration (however, the amendment was later defeated in the Senate). Webster Hubbell, the former number-three official at the Justice Department, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for bilking clients of the law firm where he and Hillary Rodham Clinton were partners.

O.J. Simpson's problems never seem to diminish. Thursday night he held an anti-violence fund-raiser at his Brentwood Estate and found himself in the middle of a shouting match between a group of blacks supporting him and a member of the Jewish Defense League opposing his black-tie event. To remind your self of the swirl of information surrounding the former great football tailback check http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=O.J.+Simpson.

  • Today is Army Day observance in Guatemala.


Sources: Associated Press,
Chase's Calendar of Events 1996, J.P. Morgan


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