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Today in American History - June 28

By Martin Kelly, About.com

Events:


1894 - Labor Day became an official US Holiday.

1919 - The Peace Treaty ending World War I was signed at Versailles.

1978 - The US Supreme Court ruled in Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke that quotas could not be used in college admissions. This was a reverse discrimination case.

Deaths:


1836 - James Madison

1914 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand killed precipitating World War I.

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