In 1491, England's King Henry VIII was born in Greenwich.
In 1914, Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sofia, were assassinated in present-day Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, by a Serbian revolutionary - the event which triggered World War I. Five years later on this date, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, officially ending the international conflict.
In 1939, Pan American Airways began regular trans-Atlantic air service as the "Dixie Clipper" left Port Washington, N.Y., for Portugal.
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Comedian-movie director Mel Brooks (1926)
Actress Danielle Brisebois (1969)
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"There is nothing so poserful as an old idea whose time has come again."