MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · June 28
THE DAY IN HISTORY · JUNE 28
June 28 in history
1914 — Sarajevo
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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1919
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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