28th June

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1461 Edward IV was crowned King of England. He was the first Yorkist King and the first half of his rule was marred by the violence associated with the Wars of the Roses.

1491 The birth of Henry VIII, King of England and second son of Henry VII. He married six times, beheaded two wives, broke away from the Catholic church to form the Church of England.

1645 In the English Civil War, the Royalists lost Carlisle.

1703 John Wesley, English evangelical preacher and founder of Methodism, was born.

1838 Queen Victoria was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London. She was just 19 years old.

1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie were killed by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. The killings sparked a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I.

1919 Exactly five years to the day after Franz Ferdinand's death, Germany and the Allied Powers signed the Treaty of Versailles, officially marking the end of World War I. Although the armistice, signed on 11th November 1918, ended the actual fighting, it took six months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference to conclude the peace treaty.

1928 The birth of the politician Sir Cyril Smith MBE. He served as Liberal and Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Rochdale from 1972 until his retirement in 1992. After his death in 2010 , numerous allegations of child sex abuse of young boys by Smith emerged. Greater Manchester Police said the boys 'were victims of physical and sexual abuse' and the Crown Prosecution Service said that the MP should have been charged with the crimes more than 40 years previously.

1930 English engineer Frank Whittle patented the jet engine.

1930 Mick the Miller becomes the first dog to win the Greyhound Derby for a second time.

1935 The first 'Rupert Bear' cartoon appeared in the Daily Express newspaper.

1948 English middleweight boxer Dick Turpin, (the elder brother and trainer of the more famous Randolph Turpin), beat Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black fighter to win a British boxing title.

1950 A novice U.S. team beat the highly fancied England players 1-0 in the first round of the World Cup in Brazil. The English team included Billy Wright and Tom Finney.

1956 Sydney Silverman's bill for the abolition of the death penalty was passed by the House of Commons. It was defeated in the Lords on 10th July.

1960 45 men were killed in a gas explosion at a coal mine in Monmouthshire, Wales.

1991 Margaret Thatcher announced that she was to retire from the House of Commons at the next general election. The former prime minister, who held her Finchley seat for more than thirty years, said she intended to remain in politics and wanted to go to the House of Lords .... and she did!

2004 The US handed sovereignty back to Iraq in a low-key ceremony in Baghdad.

2013 75 year old 'Moors Murderer' Ian Brady, who, along with Myra Hindley, tortured and murdered five children in the 1960s, lost his legal bid to be transferred from a psychiatric hospital back to prison. He claimed that he hated Ashworth hospirtal because 'the regime has changed to a penal warehouse.'

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