On This Day — 28 June

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)

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: 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

1948

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

Dick Turpin (boxer)

1945

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

Provisional Government of National Unity

1942

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

World War II

1940

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

Kingdom of Romania

1936

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

Mengjiang

1926

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

Mercedes-Benz

1922

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

Irish Civil War

1921

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

Alexander I of Yugoslavia

1919

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

Treaty of Versailles

1917

World War I: Greece joins the Allied powers.

Greece during World War I

1914

Causes 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.

Causes of World War I

1911

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

Nakhla meteorite

1904

The 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.

SS Norge

1902

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

United States Congress

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.

Twin Shaft disaster

1895

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

United States Court of Private Land Claims

1894

Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.

Labor Day

1882

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

Anglo-French Convention of 1882

1881

The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.

Austro-Serbian alliance of 1881

1880

Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.

Bushranger

1870

The US Congress establishes the first federal holidays (New Year Day, July 4th, Thanksgiving, and Christmas).

1865

The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.

Army of the Potomac

1859

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

Dog show

1855

Sigma Chi fraternity is founded in North America.

Sigma Chi

1841

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

Paris Opera Ballet

1838

Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

Coronation of Queen Victoria

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.

British invasions of the River Plate

1797

French troops disembark in Corfu, beginning the French rule in the Ionian Islands.

Corfu

1778

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

Continental Army

1776

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

American Revolutionary War

1776

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

Thomas Hickey (soldier)

1745

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

New England

1651

The Battle of Berestechko between Poland and Ukraine starts.

Battle of Berestechko

1635

Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.

Guadeloupe

1575

Sengoku period of Japan: The combined forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu are victorious in the Battle of Nagashino.

Sengoku period

1519

Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

1495

A French force heavily defeats a much larger Neapolitan and Spanish army at the battle of Seminara, leading to the creation of the Tercios by Gonzalo de Córdoba.

Battle of Seminara

1461

Edward, Earl of March, is crowned King Edward IV of England.

Edward IV

1360

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

Muhammad VI of Granada

1098

Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul at the battle of Antioch.

First Crusade