What Happened On This Day In History?

1838

Britain's Queen Victoria was crowned in Westminster Abbey.

1894

Labor Day was established as a holiday for federal employees on the first Monday of September.

1914

Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sofia, were assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serb nationalist. The event triggered World War I.

1919

Harry S. Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence, Mo.

1919

The Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War I.

1950

North Korean forces captured Seoul, South Korea.

1951

A TV version of the radio program ''Amos 'N' Andy'' premiered on CBS. Although criticized for racial stereotyping, it was the first network TV series to feature an all-black cast.

1967

Israel formally declared Jerusalem reunified under its sovereignty following its capture of the Arab sector.

1978

The Supreme Court ordered the medical school at the University of California at Davis to admit Allan Bakke, a white man who argued he had been a victim of reverse racial discrimination.

1995

Webster Hubbell, the former No. 3 official at the Justice Department, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for bilking clients of the law firm where he and Hillary Rodham Clinton were partners.

1996

The Citadel voted to admit women, ending a 153-year-old men-only policy at the South Carolina military school.

1997

Mike Tyson was disqualified for biting Evander Holyfield's ear after three rounds of their WBA heavyweight title fight in Las Vegas. The Nevada State Athletic Commission later revoked Tyson's boxing license.

1998

The Cincinnati Enquirer apologized to the Chiquita banana company and retracted stories questioning the company's business practices; the paper agreed to pay more than $10 million to settle legal claims.

2000

Seven months after he was cast adrift in the Florida Straits, Elian Gonzalez was returned to his native Cuba.

2000

The Supreme Court ruled the Boy Scouts can bar homosexuals from serving as troop leaders.

1491

England's King Henry VIII was born in Greenwich.

1836

James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, died in Montpelier, Va.