TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS TUESDAY, JUNE 28, the 179th day of 2022. There are 186 days left in the year. TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY: On this date in 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending the First World War. In 1838, Britain’s Queen Victoria was crowned in Westminster Abbey. In 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, were shot to death in Sarajevo by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip — an act that sparked World War I. In 1939, Pan American Airways began regular trans-Atlantic air service with a flight that departed New York for Marseilles, France. In 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Alien Registration Act, also known as the Smith Act, which required adult foreigners residing in the U.S. to be registered and fingerprinted. In 1950, North Korean forces captured Seoul, the capital of South Korea. In 2000, seven months after he was cast adrift in the Florida Straits, Elian Gonzalez was returned to his native Cuba. In 2010, the Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, that Americans had the right to own a gun for self-defense anywhere they lived. In 2013, the four plaintiffs in the U.S. Supreme Court case that overturned California’s same-sex marriage ban tied the knot just hours after a federal appeals court freed gay couples to obtain marriage licenses in the state for the first time in 4½ years. TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Comedianmovie director Mel Brooks is 96. Actor Bruce Davison is 76. Actor Kathy Bates is 74. Actor Alice Krige is 68. College and Pro Football Hall-of-Famer John Elway is 62. Jazz singer Tierney Sutton is 59. Actor Jessica Hecht and rock musician Saul Davies (James) are 57. Actors Mary Stuart Masterson and John Cusack are 56. Actor Gil Bellows is 55. Actor-singer Danielle Brisebois and actor Tichina Arnold are 53. Actor Steve Burton is 52. Entrepreneur Elon Musk is 51. Actor Alessandro Nivola is 50. Actor Camille Guaty and rock musician Tim Nordwind (OK Go) are 46. Rock musician Mark Stoermer (The Killers) is 45. Country singer Big Vinny Hickerson (Trailer Choir) is 39. Country singer Kellie Pickler is 36.