The day lightning struck Lee Trevino: 28 iconic images from June 28
After Lee Trevino was struck by lightning, he delivered one of the most famous punch lines in golfing history.
Each day we offer a curated collection of some of the best AP images that were taken from that date. Not all of these photos were prize winners, but each of them certainly tells a story.
1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife, Czech Countess Sophie Chotek, leave the reception at City Hall and walk toward an open car in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on June 28, 1914. A short time later the couple were assassinated by a Serb nationalist. (AP Photo)
1920: Convention
This is a general view of the Democratic National Convention held in San Francisco, June 28, 1920 in the Civic Auditorium. (AP Photo)
1932: Huey Long
Senator Huey Long from Louisiana shown here at the Democratic National Convention at the speakers platform defending his group of delegates in Chicago, Il. on June 28, 1932. (AP Photo)
1933: Albert Einstein
Professor Albert Einstein, famous scientist, (left) and M. Edouard Herriot, noted French statesman, in procession for commemoration day exercises at the University of Glasgow, Scotland June 28, 1933. They were given the degree of Doctor of Laws. (AP Photo)
1936: Aimee Semple McPherson
Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson ordains more than 200 ministers in her Foursquare Gospel Church, June 28, 1936, in Los Angeles, after having been confined to her bed since collapsing last Friday. Her attorney said she appeared "to quell rumors that she was dangerously ill." (AP Photo)
1937: J. EDGAR HOOVER
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, is seen with his bodyguards in Washington on June 28, 1937. (AP Photo)
1942: Civilian prisoners
Men and women of the Nazi occupied districts of Poland, Russia and France are herded together waiting to be transported to Germany where they will be put to work to combat the shortage of war industry labor during World War II, June 28, 1942. (AP Photo)
1942: WWII England Canterbury Bomb Damage
Workmen clear up debris of buildings wrecked near the famous Canterbury Cathedral in England, June 28, 1942, after the June 1 German air raid on the Cathedral City. Although several historic buildings where laid to waste, the Cathedral itself, in the background, escaped a direct hit although damaged to the extent of many thousands of dollars. (AP Photo)
1944: POWs
American soldiers escort a column of German prisoners of war as they march through the streets of Cherbourg, on June 28, 1944, after the liberation of France by Allied troops. (AP Photo)
1944: Republican convention
About 2,000 natives of this hometown of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey gathered in the downtown section of Owosso, Michigan on June 28, 1944, to celebrate his nomination as G.O.P. president of the United States. They are shown cheering and waving their signs during the demonstration. (AP Photo)
1948: TV
Taxi driver Charles De Lorne demonstrates his newly installed Motorola television unit for Aline Edwards in Chicago on June 28, 1948. Using a standard table model, the video set was adapted for use in a Chicago taxicab by George Fyler, television engineer. Requiring only 70 watts of power, a special vibrator enables the set to be installed without added battery power. (AP Photo/Edward Kitch)
1950: Korean War American Troops
American troops, members of the Korean military advisory group, march toward Kimpo airfield, west of Seoul in South Korea, on June 28, 1950 after evacuating the South Korean capital ahead of advancing North Korean communists. The Americans were forced to cross the Han River in small beats then March 16 miles to the field. (AP Photo)
1953: Censorship In Theater
Members of a civic group opposed to burlesque shows picket the Reade Paramount Theater, June 28, 1953, in Long Branch, N.J., to protest the opening of the theater for burlesque entertainment. The opening show went on as scheduled. (AP Photo)
1959: White Sox
Circus elephants parade past the Chicago White Sox dugout between double header games with the New York Yankees at Comiskey Park, Chicago, Ill., June 28, 1959. Bill Veeck, president of the Sox, brought in the Cristina Bros., circus to entertain the 40,000 fans. (AP Photo)
1963: Steve McQueen
Actor Steve McQueen, sits in his new Ford-Cobra roadster, June 28, 1963, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Dick Stroebel)
1963: Ward Hearing
Marilyn Rice Davies, 18-year-old, leaves court in London on June 28, 1963 after telling a story of sex in government and society circles. She testified she had sexual relations with Lord Astor. She told her story on the first day of the hearing of vice charges against society Osteopath Dr. Stephen Ward (AP Photo)
1965: Civil Rights Demonstration
Chicago police drag away one of 80 civil rights marchers who were arrested in the Loop after staging a rush hour sit-in on a downtown street in Chicago, June 28, 1965. Leaders of the march, dissatisfied with results of their two-hour meeting with Mayor Daley, ordered marchers to assume "arrest position." (AP Photo)
1965: John Lennon
Beatles John Lennon continues to play the guitar as he evades a young fan who wants Lennon's yachting-style cap as a souvenir during the Beatles concert in Rome, Italy, June 28, 1965. (AP Photo)
1965: Nina Simone
Jazz musician Nina Simone reads a story book to her two-year-old daughter Lisa before departing on a TWA Starstream jet for London from New York City on June 28, 1965. (AP Photo)
1968: Diligenti Quintuplets
When the Diligenti quintuplets were born in Argentina 25 years ago, their father prevented exploitation or commercialization of their uniqueness. Since that time, they have been together seldom, the first when almost a year old and another time when they celebrated their 15th birthday at Bueno Aires on June 28, 1968. (AP Photo)
1968: Heart Transplant
This was the crowded operating room at the Montreal Heart Institute during heart transplant operation on Gaetan Paris, a 49 year old electrical designer, June 28, 1968. Unidentified Surgeons and members of the transplant team operate over table in background. Specialist, right foreground, makes adjustments to the "2 heart lungs" machine. An anesthetist controls his apparatus, left foreground. (AP Photo)
1968: RFK Assassination
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, accused assassin of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, is wheeled to an elevator en route back to his cell in the Los Angeles County Central jail, June 28, 1968 after winning a continuance of three weeks before entering a plea to a charge of murder. With him is his attorney, Russell E. Parsons. Sirhan suffered an injured ankle at the time of his arrest the night, Sen. Kennedy was shot. (AP Photo/George Brich)
1975: Lee Trevino
Lee Trevino lies near the 13th hole after being struck by lightning during the second round of the Western Open at the Butler National Golf Club in Oakbrook, Il., on June 28, 1975. He was treated at Hinsdale Sanitarium and Hospital for shoulder burns. After he was struck, Trevino was asked by a reporter what he would do if he were out on the course and it began to storm again. Trevino answered he would take out his 1 iron and point it to the sky, “because not even God can hit the 1-iron.”
(AP Photo)
1975: NYC Sanitation Strike
Plastic bags filled with garbage pile up outside a cleaners in New York's mid-Manhattan, June 28, 1975, after city sanitation workers refused to pick up trash in a work stoppage that began June 27. Agreement was announced Saturday to lift the suspension of some 200 workers and have them return to work collecting tons of trash that accumulated on the city's East Side. (AP Photo/Suzanne Vlamis)
1976: Bicentennial Reenactment
Visitors line up in foreground to board the tall ship Danmark from Denmark in Newport, Rhode Island on June 28, 1976. Fog kept most of the spectator fleet tied up at nearby piers. The Danmark will leave Newport on Thursday for sail to New York and review of the grand naval fleet on July 4th. (AP Photo/J. Walter Green)
1978: Kansas
Rock group Kansas performing at Madison Square Garden in New York City on June 28, 1978. (AP Photo/G. Paul Burnett)
1978: Times Square
People line up at the ticket sales booth between 46th and 47th Street to purchase half price theater tickets, in the Times Square area of Manhattan, New York City, on June 28, 1978. (AP Photo)
1985: Anne White
Tennis player Anne White of the U.S. is shown in a tight fitting body suit, which she has been banned from wearing in her resumed match tomorrow, against fellow American Pam Shriver, June 28, 1985. (AP Photo/Seelan Naidoo)
