28 June
Notable Births
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)
Oscar Hiljemark
b. 1992
Swedish footballer (born 1992)
Elaine Thompson-Herah
b. 1992
Jamaican sprinter (born 1992)
Seohyun
b. 1991
South Korean singer and actress (born 1991)
Kevin De Bruyne
b. 1991
Belgian footballer (born 1991)
Kang Min-hyuk
b. 1991
South Korean musician (born 1991)
Jason Clark (rugby league)
b. 1989
Australian rugby league footballer
Andrew Fifita
b. 1989
Australia & Tonga international rugby league footballer (born 1989)
David Fifita (rugby league, born 1989)
b. 1989
Tonga international rugby league footballer
Raul Seixas
b. 1945
Brazilian singer-songwriter and music producer (1945-1989)
Junior Johnson
b. 1931
American racing driver (1931–2019)
Hans Blix
b. 1928
Swedish politician (born 1928)
Patrick Hemingway
b. 1928
Son of Ernest Hemingway (1928–2025)
Notable Deaths
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)
Scotty Moore
d. 2016
American guitarist (1931–2016)
Pat Summitt
d. 2016
American basketball player and coach (1952–2016)
Buddy Ryan
d. 2016
American football player, coach, and executive (1931–2016)
Jack Carter (comedian)
d. 2015
American comedian and actor (1922–2015)
Wally Stanowski
d. 2015
Canadian ice hockey player
Jim Brosnan
d. 2014
American baseball player (1929–2014)
On Kawara
d. 2014
Japanese artist (1932–2014)
Meshach Taylor
d. 2014
American actor (1947–2014)
Ted Hood
d. 2013
American yachtsman (1927–2013)
Tamás Katona
d. 2013
Kenneth Minogue
d. 2013
Australian political theorist (1930–2013)
Leontine T. Kelly
d. 2012
American bishop (1920–2012)
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
1982
Aeroflot Flight 8641 crashes in Mazyr, Belarus, killing 132 people.
Aeroflot Flight 8641
1981
A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republican Party.
Haft-e Tir bombing
1978
The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
Supreme Court of the United States
1976
The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
Angola
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.
Northern Ireland Assembly (1973)
1969
Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.
Stonewall riots
1964
Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
Malcolm X
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.
Poznań
1950
Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers (between 60,000 and 200,000) are executed in the Bodo League massacre.
Korean War
1950
Korean 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.
Hangang Bridge bombing
1950
Korean War: The Korean People's Army kills almost a thousand doctors, nurses, inpatient civilians and wounded soldiers in the Seoul National University Hospital massacre.
Korean People's Army
1948
Cold War: The Tito–Stalin Split results in the expulsion of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from the Cominform.
Cold War