To begin kindergarten in the state of Illinois, a child should be 5 years old on or before September 1 of the kindergarten year and live within the boundaries of the school district.
Archduke Ferdinand assassinated. On this day in 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. The killings sparked a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I by early August.
On Biography.com, find out how Archduke Franz Ferdinand was trying to shore up the disintegrating Austro-Hungarian Empire when he was assassinated prior to World War I. Franz Ferdinand's assassination on June 28, 1914, at the hand of a Serbian terrorist group the Black Hand, led to the beginning of World War I.