What special things have happened on 6/28?
Today’s Highlight in History: On June 28, 1914, Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sofia, were assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serb nationalist — the event that triggered World War I. On this date: In 1491, England’s King Henry VIII was born at Greenwich. In 1778, “Molly Pitcher” (Mary Ludwig Hays) carried water to American soldiers at the Revolutionary War Battle of Monmouth, N.J. In 1836, the fourth president of the United States, James Madison, died in Montpelier, Va. In 1838, Britain’s Queen Victoria was crowned in Westminster Abbey. In 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War I. In 1939, Pan American Airways began regular trans-Atlantic air service. 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, South Korea. In 1978, the Supreme Court ordered the University of California at Davis Medic
