THE DAY IN HISTORY · JUNE 28
June 28 in history
What happened on June 28: 3 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1914, 1919 and 1948, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
28 Jun 1914 — Gavrilo Princip, a 19-year-old Bosnian Serb, shoots Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie at point-blank range — after the motorcade takes a wrong turn. Five weeks of diplomacy later, the continent is at war.
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The Treaty of Versailles is signed — five years to the day after the pistol shots at Sarajevo that began the catastrophe it ends.
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— Tito–Stalin split
28 Jun 1948 — The Cominform expelled Yugoslavia, the most independent of the new communist states, after Tito refused Moscow’s direction. Yugoslavia survived Soviet pressure, and Stalin answered by purging alleged “Titoists” across the bloc.
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