On This Day for June 28 - Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Peter Paul Rubens is featured, and more

Created: 2020-06-28 10:03 Updated: 2020-06-28 10:03 Notebook: On this Day in History

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June 28

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Peter Paul Rubens

Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie

FEATURED EVENT

1914

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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2007: The bald eagle was removed from the U.S. list of endangered and threatened species. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about birds.]

1997: In a boxing match for the heavyweight title, Mike Tyson was disqualified after he twice bit Evander Holyfield's ears; as a result of the infraction, he temporarily lost his boxing license. [ Test your knowledge of sports.]

1969: A series of violent confrontations between police and gay rights activists began outside the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City; the riots helped launch an international gay rights movement. [ Read more about this and nine other riots in U.S. history.]

1867: Italian playwright, novelist, and short-story writer Luigi Pirandello, recipient of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born. [Test your knowledge of Nobel laureates in literature.]

1519: Charles V—who, as Charles I, was already king of Spain—was elected Holy Roman emperor; his struggles to hold the empire together led to his abdication in 1556. [ Test your knowledge of kings and emperors.]

1919: The Treaty of Versailles was signed at the Palace of Versailles in France, signifying the end of World War I. [Sort fact from fiction in our World War I quiz.]

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