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This day in history: 28 June

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400 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 28 June.
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2016: A terrorist attack in Turkey's Istanbul Atatürk Airport kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Basilides and Potamiana

Christian feast day: Blessed Maria Pia Mastena

Christian feast day: Heimerad

Christian feast day: Irenaeus of Lyon (Western Christianity)

Christian feast day: June 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Paulus I

Christian feast day: Vincenza Gerosa

Constitution Day (Ukraine)

International LGBTQ Pride Day, marking the anniversary of Stonewall riots.

Poznań Remembrance Day (Poland)

Vidovdan, celebrating St. Vitus and an important day in Serbian history. (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Events

2016A terrorist attack in Turkey's Istanbul Atatürk Airport kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others.

2012The United States Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius.

2009Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran Constitution. This was the start of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis.

2004Iraq War: Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.

2001Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.

1997Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear.

1989On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle.

1987For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bomb the Iranian town of Sardasht.

1982Aeroflot Flight 8641 crashes in Mazyr, Belarus, killing 132 people.

1981A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republican Party.

1978The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, bars quota systems in college admissions.

1976The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.

1973Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.

1969Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.

1964Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.

1956In Poznań, workers from HCP factory go to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe.

1950Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blow up the Hangang Bridge in an attempt to slow North Korea's offensive. The city falls later that day.

1950Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers (between 60,000 and 200,000) are executed in the Bodo League massacre.

1950Korean War: The Korean People's Army kills almost a thousand doctors, nurses, inpatient civilians and wounded soldiers in the Seoul National University Hospital massacre.

1948Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.

1948Cold War: The Tito–Stalin Split results in the expulsion of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from the Cominform.

1945Poland's Soviet-allied Provisional Government of National Unity is formed over a month after V-E Day.

1942World War II: Nazi Germany starts its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue.

1940Romania cedes Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union after facing an ultimatum.

1936The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.

1926Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.

1922The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.

1921Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.

1919The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I.

1917World War I: Greece joins the Allied powers.

1914Causes of World War I: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo, beginning the July Crisis and providing the casus belli of World War I.

1911The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt.

1904The SS Norge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270 mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.

1902The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.

1896An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.

1895The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis's claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."

1894Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.

1882The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.

1881The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.

1880Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.

Born on this day

2005Pio Esposito, Italian footballer

2005Tom Bischof, German footballer

2002Marta Kostyuk, Ukrainian tennis player

1999Markéta Vondroušová, Czech tennis player

1997Shakur Stevenson, American boxer

1997Tadasuke Makino, Japanese racing driver

1996Donna Vekić, Croatian tennis player

1996Larissa Werbicki, Canadian rower

1994Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan

1993Bradley Beal, American basketball player

1992Elaine Thompson, Jamaican sprinter

1992Oscar Hiljemark, Swedish footballer

1991Kang Min-hyuk, South Korean singer, drummer, and actor

1991Kevin De Bruyne, Belgian footballer

1991Seohyun, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress

1989Andrew Fifita, Australian rugby league player

1989David Fifita, Australian rugby league player

1989Jason Clark, Australian rugby league player

1989Julia Zlobina, Russian-Azerbaijani figure skater

1989Markiplier, American internet personality

1989Nicole Rottmann, Austrian tennis player

1987Sonata Tamošaitytė, Lithuanian hurdler

1987Terrence Williams, American basketball player

1986Kellie Pickler, American singer-songwriter

1985Colt Hynes, American baseball player

1985Phil Bardsley, English footballer

1982Ibrahim Camejo, Cuban long jumper

1981Brandon Phillips, American baseball player

1981Guillermo Martínez, Cuban javelin thrower

1981Michael Crafter, Australian singer-songwriter

1981Savage, New Zealand rapper

1980Jevgeni Novikov, Estonian footballer

1979Felicia Day, American actress and writer

1979Florian Zeller, French author and playwright

1979Randy McMichael, American football player

1978Simon Larose, Canadian tennis player

1977Chris Spurling, American baseball player

1977Harun Tekin, Turkish singer and guitarist

1977Mark Stoermer, American bass player, songwriter, and producer

1976Seth Wescott, American snowboarder

Died on this day

2026Wilford Lloyd Baumes, American screenwriter and television producer (born 1939)

2025Aminu Dantata, Nigerian businessman and philanthropist (born 1931)

2025Dave Parker, American baseball player and coach (born 1951)

2025D. Wayne Lukas, American horse trainer (born 1935)

2024Audrey Flack, American artist (born 1931)

2024Mohamed Osman Jawari, Somali attorney and politician, 12th Speaker of the Parliament of Somalia (born 1945)

2024Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican baseball player (born 1937)

2023Lowell Weicker, French-American politician, 85th Governor of Connecticut (born 1931)

2018Harlan Ellison, American writer (born 1934)

2016Buddy Ryan, American football coach (born 1931)

2016Pat Summitt, American women's college basketball head coach (born 1952)

2016Scotty Moore, American guitarist (born 1931)

2015Jack Carter, American actor and comedian (born 1922)

2015Jope Seniloli, Fijian politician, Vice-President of Fiji (born 1939)

2015Wally Stanowski, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1919)

2014Jim Brosnan, American baseball player (born 1929)

2014Meshach Taylor, American actor (born 1947)

2014On Kawara, Japanese painter (born 1933)

2014Seymour Barab, American cellist and composer (born 1921)

2013David Rubitsky, American sergeant (born 1917)

2013F. D. Reeve, American author and academic (born 1928)

2013Kenneth Minogue, New Zealand-Australian political scientist and academic (born 1930)

2013Tamás Katona, Hungarian historian and politician (born 1932)

2013Ted Hood, American sailor and architect (born 1927)

2012Doris Sams, American baseball player (born 1927)

2012Leontine T. Kelly, American bishop (born 1920)

2012Richard Isay, American psychiatrist and author (born 1934)

2012Robert Sabatier, French author and poet (born 1923)

2010Robert Byrd, American lawyer and politician (born 1917)

2009A. K. Lohithadas, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1955)

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“Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear?”

Lao Tzu

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