On This Day In History June 28th: 2007: The bald eagle was removed from the U.S. list of endangered and threatened species. 1919: The “Big Four”: David Lloyd George of Britain, Vittorio Orlando of Italy, Georges Clemenceau of France, and Woodrow Wilson of the United States, the principal architects of the Treaty of Versailles.The Treaty of Versailles was signed at the Palace of Versailles in France, signifying the end of World War I. 1914: Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand On this day in 1914, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his consort, Sophie, were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, Bosnia, precipitating the outbreak of World War I. 1902: Notorious American bank robber John Dillinger was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. 1894: The U.S. Congress declared the first Monday of September as Labor Day, a holiday to honour the American worker. 1867: Italian playwright, novelist, and short-story writer Luigi Pirandello, recipient of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born. 1838: Victoria was crowned queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1778: Molly Pitcher earned her nickname by carrying water to her husbands regiment during the Battle of Monmouth Court House. 1712: French philosopher, writer, and political theorist Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva. 1577: Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens, the greatest exponent of Baroque paintings dynamism, vitality, and sensuous exuberance and perhaps best known for his religious and mythological compositions, was born this day. Back to top
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