![]() In 1978, the Supreme Court ordered the University of California-Davis Medical School to admit Allan Bakke (BAHK'-ee), a white man who argued he'd been a victim of reverse racial discrimination. 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 1950, North Korean forces captured Seoul (sohl), the capital of South Korea. In 1944, the Republican national convention in Chicago nominated New York Gov. In 1939, Pan American Airways began regular trans-Atlantic air service with a flight that departed New York for Marseilles, France. Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace. In Independence, Missouri, future president Harry S. In 1919, the Treaty of Versailles (vehr-SY') was signed in France, ending the First World War. In 1867, Italian author and playwright Luigi Pirandello was born in Agrigento (ah-gree-JEN'-toh), Sicily. In 1838, Britain's Queen Victoria was crowned in Westminster Abbey. In 1836, the fourth president of the United States, James Madison, died in Montpelier, Virginia. ![]() In 1778, the Revolutionary War Battle of Monmouth took place in New Jersey from this battle arose the legend of "Molly Pitcher," a woman who was said to have carried water to colonial soldiers, then taken over firing her husband's cannon after he became disabled. On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, were shot to death in Sarajevo (sah-ruh-YAY'-voh) by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip (gavh-REE'-loh PREEN'-seep) - an act which sparked World War I. ![]()
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