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.
The First World War killed 17 million people, traumatised a generation, overturned old empires and changed the world's political order â and yet its origins often seem obscure. How did WWI start? The simplest answer is that the immediate cause was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the archduke of Austria-Hungary. His death at the hands of Gavrilo Princip â a Serbian nationalist with ties to the secretive military group known as the Black Hand â propelled the major European military powers towards war.