Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on June 28 throughout history.
The Atatürk Airport attack, consisting of shootings and suicide bombings, occurred on 28 June 2016 at Atatürk Airport in Istanbul, Turkey. Gunmen armed with automatic weapons and …
A terrorist attack in Turkey's Istanbul Atatürk Airport kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal co…
The United States Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate in Nationa
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicar…
Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to r
The Iraq War, also referred to as the Second Gulf War, was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion by a United States–led coalition, whic…
Iraq War: Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the
Slobodan Milošević was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the president of Serbia between 1989 and 1997 and president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 until …
Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial
Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson II, billed as The Sound and the Fury and afterwards infamously referred to as The Bite Fight, was a professional boxing match contested between th…
Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear
The Battle of Kosovo took place on 15 June 1389 between an army led by the Serbian Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović and an invading army of the Ottoman Empire under the command of Sulta…
On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the h
Mustard gas or sulfur mustard are names commonly used for the organosulfur chemical compound bis(2-chloroethyl) sulfide, which has the chemical structure S(CH2CH2Cl)2, as well as …
For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombe
Aeroflot Flight 8641 was a Yakovlev Yak-42 airliner on a domestic scheduled passenger flight from Leningrad to Kiev. On 28 June 1982, the flight crashed south of Mazyr, Byelorussi…
Aeroflot Flight 8641 crashes in Mazyr, Belarus, killing 132 people
On 28 June 1981, a powerful bomb went off at the headquarters of the Islamic Republican Party (IRP) in Tehran, while a meeting of party leaders was in progress. Seventy-four leadi…
A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republican Party
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal co…
The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the western coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country after Brazil in b…
The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial
The Northern Ireland Assembly was a legislative assembly set up by the Government of the United Kingdom on 3 May 1973 to restore devolved government to Northern Ireland with the p…
Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalist
The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous riots and demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the…
Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement
Malcolm X was an African American revolutionary and Black nationalist leader who came from a background of poverty, family disruption, and criminal activity, to a prominent figure…
Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity
Poznań is a city on the River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business center and one of Poland's most populous regio…
In Poznań, workers from HCP factory go to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist govern
The Korean War was an armed conflict fought on the Korean Peninsula between North Korea and South Korea and their allies. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union, …
Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers (between 60,000 and 200,000) are executed in the Bodo League massacre
The Hangang Bridge bombing was a demolition operation conducted by the South Korean Army to destroy the Hangang Bridge in Seoul, South Korea, on 28 June 1950, to delay the rapid N…
Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blow
The Korean People's Army encompasses the combined military forces of North Korea and the armed wing of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK). The KPA consists of five branches: the Gr…
Korean War: The Korean People's Army kills almost a thousand doctors, nurses, inpatient civilians and wounded soldiers i
The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc…
Cold War: The Tito–Stalin Split results in the expulsion of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from the Cominform