June 28 Events |
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| June 28th, 2006 (June 28 2006) | Event | The Republic of Montenegro was admitted as the 192nd Member of the United Nations by General Assembly resolution 60/264. | |
| June 28th, 2005 (June 28 2005) | Event | Canada becomes the third country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage. | |
| June 28th, 2005 (June 28 2005) | Event | A final design for Manhattan s Freedom Tower is formally unveiled. | |
| June 28th, 2004 (June 28 2004) | Event | The 17th NATO Summit starts in Istanbul. | |
| June 28th, 2004 (June 28 2004) | Event | Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation. | |
| June 28th, 2004 (June 28 2004) | Event | Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism | |
| June 28th, 2001 (June 28 2001) | Event | U.S. Appeals Court overturns a lower court s order to break up Microsoft in an antitrust case. | |
| June 28th, 2000 (June 28 2000) | Event | Cuban exile Elian Gonzalez returns to Cuba following a Supreme Court order. | |
| June 28th, 1997 (June 28 1997) | Event | Mike Tyson vs Evander HolyfieldTyson is disqualified in the 3rd round for biting a piece from Holyfield s ear. | |
| June 28th, 1996 (June 28 1996) | Event | The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law. | |
| June 28th, 1994 (June 28 1994) | Event | Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas attack at Matsumoto, Japan, 7 persons killed, 660 injured. | |
| June 28th, 1992 (June 28 1992) | Event | The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law. | |
| June 28th, 1990 (June 28 1990) | Event | Paperback Software International Ltdied in found guilty by a U.S. court of copyright violation for copying the appearance and menu system of Lotus 1-2-3 in its competing spreadsheet program. | |
| June 28th, 1988 (June 28 1988) | Event | The worst confined-space industrial accident in U.S. history occurs at a metal-plating plant in Auburn, Indiana, killing five. | |
| June 28th, 1986 (June 28 1986) | Event | ?A Luchar! holds its first congress in Bogota, Colombia. | |
| June 28th, 1983 (June 28 1983) | Event | The Mianus River Bridge collapses over the Mianus River in Connecticut, killing 3 drivers in their vehicles. | |
| June 28th, 1978 (June 28 1978) | Event | The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions. | |
| June 28th, 1976 (June 28 1976) | Event | The Angolan court sentenced US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial. | |
| June 28th, 1973 (June 28 1973) | Event | 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. | |
| June 28th, 1969 (June 28 1969) | Event | Stonewall riots begin in New York City. | |
| June 28th, 1967 (June 28 1967) | Event | Israel annexes East Jerusalem. | |
| June 28th, 1964 (June 28 1964) | Event | Malcom X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity. | |
| June 28th, 1956 (June 28 1956) | Event | Protests and demonstrations in Poznan. Also called Poznanski czerwiec (June of Poznan). | |
| June 28th, 1950 (June 28 1950) | Event | Seoul is captured by troops from North Korea. | |
| June 28th, 1948 (June 28 1948) | Event | Cominform circulates the "Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia"; Yugoslavia is expelled from the Communist bloc. | |
| June 28th, 1940 (June 28 1940) | Event | Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union. | |
| June 28th, 1936 (June 28 1936) | Event | The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China. | |
| June 28th, 1922 (June 28 1922) | Event | The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces. | |
| June 28th, 1919 (June 28 1919) | Event | The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, formally ending World War I between Britain, France, Italy, the United States and allies on the one side and Germany and Austria Hungary on the other side. | |
| June 28th, 1914 (June 28 1914) | Event | Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip , the casus belli of World War I. | |
| June 28th, 1902 (June 28 1902) | Event | The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal. | Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
| June 28th, 1895 (June 28 1895) | Event | El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Central American Union. | |
| June 28th, 1894 (June 28 1894) | Event | Labor Day becomes an official US holiday. | |
| June 28th, 1887 (June 28 1887) | Event | Minot, North Dakota incorporated as a city. | |
| June 28th, 1886 (June 28 1886) | Event | First scheduled Canadian transcontinental passenger train departs from Montreal, Quebec for Port Moody, British Columbia. | |
| June 28th, 1881 (June 28 1881) | Event | Secret treaty between Austria and Serbia. | |
| June 28th, 1880 (June 28 1880) | Event | Ned Kelly the Australian bushranger captured at Glenrowan. | |
| June 28th, 1865 (June 28 1865) | Event | The Army of the Potomac is disbanded | |
| June 28th, 1859 (June 28 1859) | Event | First conformation dog show is held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. | |
| June 28th, 1855 (June 28 1855) | Event | The Sigma Chi Fraternity was founded at Miami University | |
| June 28th, 1841 (June 28 1841) | Event | The Theatre de l Academie Royale de Musique in Paris premieres the ballet Giselle | |
| June 28th, 1838 (June 28 1838) | Event | The coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom. | |
| June 28th, 1807 (June 28 1807) | Event | Second British invasion; John Whitelock lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the fierce resistance of the locals. | |
| June 28th, 1778 (June 28 1778) | Event | American Revolutionary War: Battle of Monmouth fought between the American Continental Army under George Washington and the British Army led by Sir Henry Clinton. Washington appoints Molly Pitcher a sergeant. | George Washington Quotes |
| June 28th, 1776 (June 28 1776) | Event | Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, was hanged for mutiny and sedition. | George Washington Quotes |
| June 28th, 1651 (June 28 1651) | Event | Battle of Beresteczko between Poles and Ukrainians starts. | |
| June 28th, 1635 (June 28 1635) | Event | Guadeloupe becomes a French colony. | |
| June 28th, 1519 (June 28 1519) | Event | Charles V elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. | |
| June 28th, 1389 (June 28 1389) | Event | Ottomans defeat Serbian army in the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe (see Vidovdan). | |
| June 28th, 1098 (June 28 1098) | Event | Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul. | |
