Today is Tuesday, June 28, the 180th day of 2016. There are 186 days left in the year.
On this date:
In 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending the First World War. In Independence, Missouri, future president Harry S. Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace.
In 1939, Pan American Airways began regular trans- Atlantic air service with a flight that departed New York for Marseilles, France.
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 1975, screenwriter, producer and actor Rod Serling, 50, creator of “The Twilight Zone,” died in Rochester, NY.
In 1996, the Citadel voted to admit women, ending a 153-year-old men-only policy at the South Carolina military school.
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