TODAY IN HISTORY:  June 28th

1820 -Tomato is proven non-poisonous.  Why did a large percentage of Europeans fear the tomato?  click here to find out why:   http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-the-tomato-was-feared-in-europe-for-more-than-200-years-863735/?no-ist

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1935 - FDR orders a federal gold vault to be built at Fort Knox Kentucky
1975 - Golfer Lee Trevino is struck by lightning at Western Open (Ill)
1982 - Prince Charles & Lady Diana name their baby "William"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY / ANNIVERSARY TO: 

1926 - Mel Brooks, New York City, American actor and director (Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs)
1948 - Kathy Bates, Memphis TN, academy award winning actress (Misery)
1966 - John Cusack, Chicago, actor (Stand By Me, Sure Thing, Better Off Dead)
1966 - Mary Stuart Masterson, Houston Texas, actress (Some Kind of Wonderful)
2008 - Golfing legend Greg Norman (53) weds former tennis star Chris Evert (53) in Paradise Island, Bahamas

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