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This day in history

Today is Tuesday, June 28, the 180th day of 2016. There are 186 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Comedian-director Mel Brooks is 90. Former senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, is 82. Comedian-impressionist John Byner is 79. Former defense secretary Leon Panetta is 78. Actress Kathy Bates is 68. Football Hall of Famer John Elway is 56. Actress Mary Stuart Masterson is 50. Actor John Cusack is 50.

In 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, were shot to death in Sarajevo by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip — an act that sparked World War I.

In 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed, ending the First World War.

In 1939, Pan American Airways began regular trans-Atlantic air service with a flight from New York to Marseilles, France.

In 1950, North Korean forces captured Seoul, South Korea.

In 1964, civil rights activist Malcolm X declared, ‘‘We want equality by any means necessary’’ during the Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity in New York.

In 1996, the Citadel voted to admit women, ending a 153-year-old men-only policy at the South Carolina military school.

In 2011, Taliban fighters raided an international hotel in Kabul and killed 10 people on the eve of talks to discuss plans for Afghan forces to take over security by the end of 2014.

Last year, authorities in upstate New York captured David Sweat, one of two murderers who’d escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility on June 6; fellow escapee, Richard Matt, was killed in a confrontation with authorities two days earlier.