June 28: Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

On this day, 28 June...

 1762 - 1st reported counterfeiting attempt (Boston).

1832 - In 1832, the first American case of a cholera epidemic was reported in New York City. Previously, Europe and the Americas were unaffected by the First Cholera Pandemic of 1817 when cholera, long endemic to the Indian subcontinent, spread to Arabia, Syria, and southern Russia. This abated in the early 1820's, but a new cholera cycle began in 1826. It invaded the British Isles in Oct 

1831. Canada was struck shortly before cholera reached New York. 

1846 - Saxophone is patented by Antoine Joseph Sax.

1859 - 1st dog show held (Newcastle-on-Tyne, England).

1909 - 1st French air show, Concours d'Avation opens.

1919 - Treaty of Versailles, ending WWI and establishing the League of Nations, is signed in France.

1928 - Austrian Friedrich Schmiedl launched his first experimental rocket. The design he first used was not successful. However, by 9 Sep 1931, he started the world's first official postal rocket-mail service between two Austrian towns. A parachute provided a safe landing. His rocket-mail service continued until 16 Mar 1933 when laws prohibited the civilian use of explosives (including his rocket fuel).

1938 -    In 1938, an aerial tramway, the first in North America, was dedicated. This was popular with the Boston-area ski clubs.

1958 - In 1958, the Mackinac Bridge, the then world longest suspension bridge, 3800 feet, was dedicated. (Today there are many bridges longer than this. The longest suspension bridge since 1998 is Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, 1991 metres).

1965 - 1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorised by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

1965 - The first commercial telephone conversation over a satellite took place over Early Bird I between America and Europe. 

1975 - As a response to anti-government demonstrations, India imposes the toughest press censorship since independence.

1976 - the 1st woman was admitted to US Air Force Academy.

1986 - Indian Union Government sanctions maternity leave for unmarried women employees too.

1986 - Accord with Mizo National Front; Lal Denga to be the chief minister of Mizoram.

1992 - A 35-year-old man at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre became the world's first recipient of a baboon liver transplant. Dr John Fung with colleagues Drs. Andreas Tzakis and Satoru Todo performed the transplant operation. The patient was dying from hepatitis B. Although the patient died from a brain haemorrhage 71 days after the historic surgery, the field of xenotransplantation, or cross-species transplantation, was advanced considerably. A second xenotransplant operation was made on 10 Jan 1993 on a 62-year-old man who lived 26 days with the baboon's liver. No further xenotransplants are currently planned there, but xenotransplantation research remains a major focus of the investigation at the university.

Born

1921 - P V Narasimha Rao, former Prime Minister.

1976 - Jaspal Rana, shooter.

Titbits

1820 - Tomato is proven non-poisonous.

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