TODAY IN HISTORY

On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, were shot and killed in Sarajevo by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip – an act that sparked World War I.

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In 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending the First World War.

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 fingerprinted.

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

In 1978, the Supreme Court ordered the University of CaliforniaDavis Medical School to admit Allan Bakke, a white man who argued he had been a victim of reverse racial discrimination.

In 2010, the Supreme Court ruled that Americans had the right to own a gun for self-defense anywhere they lived.

In 2012, the Affordable Care Act narrowly survived, 5-4, an electionyear battle at the U.S. Supreme Court with the help of conservative Chief Justice John Roberts.

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 first time in 41⁄2 years.

In 2019, white supremacist James Alex Fields, who deliberately drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing a young woman and injuring dozens, apologized to his victims before being sentenced to life in prison on federal hate crime charges.

Ten years ago: Attorney General Eric Holder became the first sitting Cabinet member held in contempt of Congress, a rebuke pushed by Republicans seeking to unearth the facts behind a bungled gun-tracking operation known as Fast and Furious.

Five years ago: ABC and a South Dakota meat producer announced a settlement in a $1.9 billion lawsuit against the network over its reports on a beef product that critics dubbed “pink slime.”

One year ago: Temperatures in parts of the Pacific Northwest wiped out records that had been set the day before; meteorologists said the record-breaking heat was caused by a dome of high pressure, and worsened by human-caused climate change.

AP Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand, center right, and his wife, Sophie, walk to their car in Sarajevo minutes before they were assassinated on June 28, 1914.