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IMHO, if the HC decision comes down on June 28th and goes against the Constitution, it will have been done by the jihadis.

1389 ? Battle of Kosovo takes place between Serbian and Ottoman army.

1519 ? Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_28

1914 - Archduke Francis Ferdinand and the Mrs. Archduke were assassinated by Serb nationalist in (what is now known as) Sarajevo, Bosnia. WW I begins.

1919 - The Treaty of Versailles was signed ending World War I exactly five years after it began. The treaty also established the League of Nations.

1942 - German troops launched an offensive to seize Soviet oil fields in the Caucasus and the city of Stalingrad.

1949 - The last U.S. combat troops were called home from Korea, leaving only 500 advisers.

1950 - North Korean forces captured Seoul, South Korea.

1954 - French troops began to pull out of Vietnam?s Tonkin Province.

1960 - In Cuba, Fidel Castro confiscated American-owned oil refineries without compensation.

1964 - Malcolm X founded the Organization for Afro American Unity to seek independence for blacks in the Western Hemisphere.

http://www.on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/jun28.htm

The Night of the Long Knives started on June 29th...as in the day following.

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/night_of_the_long