This Day in History: June 281712 – the first battleship, built in the Main Admiralty for the Baltic Fleet, was launched in St. Petersburg, in the presence of Peter I.
1914 – The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg in Sarajevo.
1919 – The Versailles Peace Treaty was signed, ending the World War I.
1946 – The first batch of Pobeda cars was assembled at the Gorky Automobile Plant.
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