JUNE 28
1919:President Woodrow Wilson is among the leaders signing the Treaty of Versailles in the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles, France, formally ending World War I and imposing harsh reparations on Germany. The spark that ignited the Great War occurred exactly five years earlier, when Bosnian-Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip murdered Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, in Sarajevo.
1846: Belgian-born musician and inventor Adolphe Sax patents his eponymous instrument, the saxophone, in Paris.
1969: Police conduct an early-morning raid on the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay club in Greenwich Village, and are met with violent resistance from patrons and local sympathizers. In the following days, demonstrations will spread through New York City, and the Stonewall riots will be frequently regarded as the beginning of the gay rights movement in the United States.
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