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June 28

4 sourced moments from June 28 in history: The Tomato Was Publicly Proven Safe to Eat (1820); An assassination in Sarajevo triggered World War I (1914); The Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I (1919), plus 1 more.

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4 things happened on June 28

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1969 Society & Economy · Politics & Law

The Stonewall uprising sparked the gay rights movement

A routine police raid on a Greenwich Village bar turned into days of protest and a turning point for LGBTQ rights.

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1919 History · Modern

The Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I

Signed in a mirrored hall outside Paris, the peace treaty closed one war and helped seed the next.

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1914 History · War & Conflict

An assassination in Sarajevo triggered World War I

Two shots fired at a street corner in Sarajevo set off the chain of alliances and ultimatums that became the First World War.

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1820 Food & Drink · Food History

The Tomato Was Publicly Proven Safe to Eat

A colonel reportedly bit into a basket of "poison" fruit on a New Jersey courthouse step, and the crowd waited for him to drop dead.

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