June 28

Saturday 28, 1969:

Stonewall riots in New York city mark the beginning of the modern gay rights era.

Wednesday 28, 1967:

Israel annexes East Jerusalem.

Sunday 28, 1914:

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophia are killed in Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist young man: Gavrilo Princip , the casus belli of World War I.

Tuesday 28, 1887:

Minot, North Dakota incorporated as a city.

Sunday 28, 1243:

Innocent IV becomes pope.

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