• Submitted by: manso
• Society
• 06 / 28 / 2011

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By The Associated Press. Published: June 28. 2011 4:00AM PST. Today’s Highlight 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 that 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 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending the First World War.

In 1950, North Korean forces captured Seoul, the capital of South Korea.

In 1951, a TV version of the radio comedy program “Amos ‘N’ Andy” premiered on CBS. (While criticized for racial stereotyping, it was the first network TV series to feature an all-black cast.)

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 1981, Terry Fox, who embarked on a cross-Canada run to promote cancer awareness despite the loss of his right leg to the disease, died in New Westminster, British Columbia.

In 1991, Joanne Was, a white woman, was attacked by a group of black women at a Detroit fireworks display in an incident captured on amateur video.

In 2000, seven months after he was cast adrift in the Florida Straits, Elian Gonzalez was returned to his native Cuba.

Today’s Birthdays

Comedian-movie director Mel Brooks is 85. CIA Director Leon Panetta is 73. Actress Kathy Bates is 63. College and Pro Football Hall of Famer John Elway is 51. Actor John Cusack is 45. Rock musician Tim Nordwind (OK Go) is 35. Rock musician Mark Stoermer (The Killers) is 34.

Thought for Today

“The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.”

— Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood,

American social reformer (1830-1917)

Source: www.bendbulletin.com/article/20110628/NEWS0107/106280354/