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On this day June 28

2016


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

2009


Honduran 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.

2004


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

2001


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

1997


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

1989


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

1987


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

1981


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

1978


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

1976


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

1973


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

1969


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

1964


Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.

1956


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

1950


Korean War: North Korean Army conducts Seoul National University Hospital massacre.

1950


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

1950


Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers (between as many as 100,000 to 200,000) are executed in the Bodo League massacre.

1950


Korean War: Seoul is captured by North Korean troops.

1948


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

1948


The Tito-Stalin Split results in the expulsion of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from the Cominform.

1945


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

1942


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

1940


Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union after facing an ultimatum.

1936


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

1926


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

1922


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

1921


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

1919


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

1914


Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.

1904


The SS Norge runs aground and sinks.

1902


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

1896


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

1895


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

1895


El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Greater Republic of Central America.

1894


Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.

1882


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

1881


The Austro-Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.

1880


Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.

1865


The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.

1859


The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

1855


Sigma Chi fraternity is founded in North America.

1846


Adolphe Sax patents the saxophone.

1841


The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier.

1838


Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

1807


Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelocke lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.

1778


The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.

1776


Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.

1776


The Battle of Sullivan's Island ends with the American victory in the American Revolutionary War leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day.

1745


A New England colonial army captures the French fortifications at Louisbourg (New Style).

1709


Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.

1651


The Battle of Berestechko between Poland and Ukraine starts.

1635


Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.

1519


Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

1461


Edward IV is crowned King of England.

1360


Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.

1098


Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.

572


Assassination of Alboin, King of the Lombards.

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