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Welcome to Newsday. Today is Sunday, June 28, the 179th day of 1998.
On this date in history, in 1778: "Molly Pitcher" (Mary Ludwig Hays) carried water to American soldiers at the Battle of Monmouth during the Revolutionary War . . . 1838: Britain's Queen Victoria was crowned in Westminster Abbey . . . 1914: Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sofia, were assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serb nationalist; the event triggered World War I . . ....