Reply #27: June 28.... [View All]

[ikojo]

Archduke Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sofia were assassinated in Sarajevo by a Bosnian Serb on June 28, 1914 setting off a chain of events that would culminate in a world war by August. Five years later, on June 28, 1919, Germany and the Allies signed the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the war and providing for the creation of the League of Nations.

Born on June 28 at different times in history...

1712 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (French philosopher; died July 2, 1778)

1902 - Richard Rodgers (Academy Award-winning composer: It Might as Well be Spring <1945>; half of Rodgers and (Lorenz) Hart and Rodgers and (Oscar) Hammerstein: The Sound of Music, Love Me Tonight, My Funny Valentine, The Lady is a Tramp, Oklahoma!, State Fair, The King and I, You’ll Never Walk Alone, Carousel, Getting to Know You, Some Enchanted Evening; died Dec 30, 1979)

1926 - Mel Brooks (Kaminsky) (director, actor: Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, The Producers; comedy writer: Your Show of Shows, Get Smart; Broadway producer: The Producers)

1946 - Gilda Radner (Emmy Award-winning comedienne, actress: Saturday Night Live <1977-78>; Haunted Honeymoon ; died May 20, 1989)

1948 - Kathy Bates (Academy Award-winning actress: Misery <1990>; Fried Green Tomatoes, Home of Our Own, Prelude to a Kiss)

and me....