Today is Saturday, June 28, the 179th day of 2014. There are 186 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlights in History: On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife,
Sophie, were assassinated in Sarajevo by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip – the event which sparked
World War I.
On this date:
In 1778, the Revolutionary War Battle of Monmouth took place in New Jersey; it was from this battle that
the legend of "Molly Pitcher" arose.
In 1838, Britain’s Queen Victoria was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
In 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending the First World War.
In 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Housing Act, which established the Federal
Housing Administration.
In 1939, Pan American Airways began regular trans-Atlantic air service with a flight that departed New
York for Marseilles, France.
In 1944, the Republican national convention in Chicago nominated New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for
president and Ohio Gov. John W. Bricker for vice president.
In 1950, North Korean forces captured Seoul, the capital of South Korea.
In 1964, civil rights activist Malcolm X declared, "We want equality by any means necessary"
during the Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity in New York.
In 1978, the Supreme Court ordered the University of California-Davis Medical School to admit Allan Bakke
a white man who argued he’d been a victim of reverse racial discrimination.
In 1994, President Bill Clinton became the first chief executive in U.S. history to set up a personal
legal defense fund and ask Americans to contribute to it.
One year ago: Tens of thousands of supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi rallied in Cairo,
and both sides fought each other in Egypt’s second-largest city of Alexandria, where two people were
killed and scores injured.