Today in History
28 June
231 births · 105 deaths · 60 events recorded
Notable Births
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Pio Esposito
b. 2005
Italian footballer (born 2005)
Marta Kostyuk
b. 2002
Ukrainian tennis player (born 2002)
Markéta Vondroušová
b. 1999
Czech tennis player (born 1999)
Tadasuke Makino
b. 1997
Japanese racing driver (born 1997)
Shakur Stevenson
b. 1997
American boxer (born 1997)
Donna Vekić
b. 1996
Croatian tennis player (born 1996)
Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan
b. 1994
Heir apparent to the Jordanian throne (born 1994)
Bradley Beal
b. 1993
American basketball player (born 1993)
Notable Deaths
All 105 ›
Aminu Dantata
d. 2025
Nigerian businessman and philanthropist (1931–2025)
D. Wayne Lukas
d. 2025
American horse trainer (1935–2025)
Dave Parker
d. 2025
American baseball player (1951–2025)
Orlando Cepeda
d. 2024
Puerto Rican baseball player (1937–2024)
Audrey Flack
d. 2024
American artist (1931–2024)
Mohamed Osman Jawari
d. 2024
Speaker of the Federal Parliament of Somalia from 2012 to 2018 (1945–2024)
Lowell Weicker
d. 2023
American politician (1931–2023)
Harlan Ellison
d. 2018
American writer (1934–2018)
On This Day in History
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2016
A terrorist attack in Turkey's Istanbul Atatürk Airport kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others.
2016 Atatürk Airport attack
2012
The United States Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius.
Supreme Court of the United States
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.
Honduras
2004
Iraq 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.
Iraq War
2001
Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.
Slobodan Milošević
1997
Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear.
Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson II
1989
On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle.
Battle of Kosovo
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.
Mustard gas