The 179th day of 2025 is today, Saturday, June 28. The year has 186 days remaining.
Gavrilo Princip, a Serb nationalist, shot and killed Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie at Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, igniting World War I.
After Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker resigned, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln named Maj. Gen. George G. Meade the new commander of the Army of the Potomac in 1863, during the Civil War.
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The First World War came to a conclusion in 1919 when France signed the Treaty of Versailles.
The Smith Act, also known as the Alien Registration Act, was signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 and mandated that all adult foreign residents of the United States be fingerprinted and registered.
The Stonewall Inn, an LGBTQ+ pub in New York’s Greenwich Village area, was raided by the police in 1969, sparking riots and six days of violent protests that marked a turning point in the LGBTQ+ rights movement.
Heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield and boxer Mike Tyson were rematching in 1997, but Tyson was disqualified when Tyson bit Holyfield twice in the third round, including removing part of Holyfield’s right ear.
Elian Gonzalez was brought back to his native Cuba in 2000, seven months after he was discovered lost in the Straits of Florida.
Authorities said Jarrod Ramos had a long-standing grudge against the newspaper for covering a harassment case against him. In 2017, a man carrying a shotgun stormed the Annapolis, Maryland, offices of The Capital newspaper, killing four journalists and a staffer before police stormed the building and arrested him. (Ramos would be found guilty and given 345 years in jail in addition to six life sentences.)
Avowed white supremacist James Alex Fields apologized for his acts in 2019 before receiving a life sentence on federal hate crime charges for intentionally crashing his vehicle into a group of counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing a young woman and injuring scores more.
Ghislaine Maxwell was given a 20-year prison term in 2022 for her assistance in the sexual exploitation of teenage girls by affluent financier Jeffrey Epstein.
- Filmmaker-comedian Mel Brooks is 99.
- Diplomat and politician Hans Blix is 97.
- Actor Bruce Davison is 79.
- Actor Kathy Bates is 77.
- Football Hall of Famer John Elway is 65.
- Actor John Cusack is 59.
- Actor Mary Stuart Masterson is 59.
- Actor Tichina Arnold is 56.
- Filmmaker-actor Mike White is 55.
- Business executive Elon Musk is 54.
- Actor Alessandro Nivola is 53.
- Country singer-TV personality Kellie Pickler is 38.
- Olympic track gold medalist Elaine Thompson-Herah is 33.
