June 28

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[edit] Events

• 1389 - Ottoman and Serbian armies fight the Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe.
• 1838 - The coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
• 1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip , the casus belli of World War I.
• 1919 - The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, formally ending World War I between Britain, France, Italy, the United States and allies on the one side and Germany and Austria Hungary on the other side.
• 1922 - The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
• 1940 - Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
• 1950 - Seoul is captured by troops from North Korea.
• 1964 - Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
• 1967 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
• 1994 - Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas attack at Matsumoto, Japan, 7 persons killed, 660 injured.
• 2006 - The Republic of Montenegro was admitted as the 192nd Member of the United Nations by General Assembly resolution 60/264.

[edit] Births

• 1491 - King Henry VIII of England (d. 1547)
• 1577 - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (d. 1640)
• 1703 - John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (d. 1791)
• 1712 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (d. 1778)
• 1883 - Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
• 1934 - Carl Levin, United States Senator
• 1938 - Leon Panetta, American White House Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton
• 1942 - Chris Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party (d. 1993)
• 1957 - Georgi Parvanov, President of Bulgaria

[edit] Deaths

• 1836 - James Madison, President of the United States (b. 1751)
• 1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1863)
• 1978 - Clifford Dupont, First President of Rhodesia (b. 1905)
• 2000 - Jane Birdwood, British and Canadian nationalist activist (b. 1913)