Today in History: June 28, Franz Ferdinand assassinated
Nowadays is Saturday June the th day of There are days left in the year In the modern day in history On June in an act that sparked World War I Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie were shot to death in Sarajevo by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip Also on this date In during the Civil War U S President Abraham Lincoln appointed Maj Gen George G Meade as the new commander of the Army of the Potomac following the resignation of Maj Gen Joseph Hooker Related Articles Jeff Bezos really desired Trump at his wedding but what would Oprah do Federal judge denies OpenAI bid to keep deleting facts amid Daily News copyright lawsuit USNS Harvey Milk is renamed after a WWII sailor in the latest Pentagon diversity purge Rural schools feel the pinch from Trump administration s cuts to mental robustness grants Bespoke bash for a billionaire Jeff Bezos weds Lauren S nchez in lavish Venice ceremony In the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France ending the First World War In President Franklin D Roosevelt signed the Alien Registration Act also known as the Smith Act which required adult foreigners residing in the U S to be registered and fingerprinted In riots broke out following a police raid at the Stonewall Inn an LGBTQ bar in New York s Greenwich Village neighborhood leading to six days of violent protests that served as a watershed moment in the LGBTQ rights movement In boxer Mike Tyson was disqualified from his rematch with heavyweight titleholder Evander Holyfield after Tyson bit Holyfield twice in the third round including biting off a portion of Holyfield s right ear In seven months after he was exposed adrift in the Straits of Florida Elian Gonzalez was returned to his native Cuba In a man armed with a shotgun attacked the offices of The Capital newspaper in Annapolis Maryland killing four journalists and a staffer before police stormed the building and arrested him officials explained Jarrod Ramos had a long-running grudge against the newspaper for its reporting of a harassment event against him Ramos would be convicted and sentenced to six life sentences plus years in prison In avowed white supremacist James Alex Fields who deliberately drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters in Charlottesville Virginia killing a young woman and injuring dozens apologized for his actions before being sentenced to life in prison on federal hate crime charges In Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to years in prison for helping the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls Currently s Birthdays Filmmaker-comedian Mel Brooks is Diplomat and politician Hans Blix is Actor Bruce Davison is Actor Kathy Bates is Football Hall of Famer John Elway is Actor John Cusack is Actor Mary Stuart Masterson is Actor Tichina Arnold is Filmmaker-actor Mike White is Business executive Elon Musk is Actor Alessandro Nivola is Country singer-TV personality Kellie Pickler is Olympic track gold medalist Elaine Thompson-Herah is
