JUNE 28
1914:Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, are assassinated in Sarajevo, precipitating the outbreak of World War I. Exactly five years later, the Treaty of Versailles will be signed in France, ending the Great War and proposing the creation of the League of Nations.
1969: Patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village gay bar, clash with New York City police. The three day of riots that follow will be regarded as the birth of the gay rights movement.
1978: The U.S. Supreme Court sides with Allan Bakke in a landmark decision that racial quotas in university admissions are unconstitutional because they violate the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause.
No comments:
Post a Comment