This Day in History: May 28th

This Day in History: Lt. Colonel George Washington and his brigade fire the first shots of what will be termed the French and Indian War (Seven Years War) near the future city of Pittsburgh, 1754; the 54th Massachusetts Infantry- a black soldiers troop- leaves Boston to fight in the Civil War, their bravery at the Battle of Fort Wagner portrayed more than a century later magnificently in the movie "Glory", 1863; Owen Wister publishes his novel "The Virginian", the first serious western which will set the standard for other books and later movies of the Old West, 1902; John Steinbeck's novel "Tortilla Flats" is published, giving the struggling writer his first taste of success in what would become a long and very successful career, culminating with the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1935; U.S. ground troops and the storied 101st Airborne abandon Ap Bia Mountain after a long, brutal and bloody series of battles against North Vietnamese soldiers, the location getting the moniker "Hamburger Hill" due to people calling it a "meat grinder" of human destruction, 1969