73681 | June 28 | Event | 1950 – Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blow up the Hangang Bridge to in attempt to slow North Korea's offensive. |
73682 | June 28 | Event | 1950 – Korean War: North Korean Army conducts Seoul National University Hospital Massacre. |
73683 | June 28 | Event | 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. |
73684 | June 28 | Event | 1964 – Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity. |
73685 | June 28 | Event | 1967 – Israel annexes East Jerusalem. |
73686 | June 28 | Event | 1969 – Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement. |
73687 | June 28 | Event | 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. |
73688 | June 28 | Event | 1976 – The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial. |
73689 | June 28 | Event | 1978 – The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions. |
73690 | June 28 | Event | 1981 – A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republican Party. |
73691 | June 28 | Event | 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. |
73692 | June 28 | Event | 1989 – On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle. |
73693 | June 28 | Event | 1992 – The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law. |
73694 | June 28 | Event | 1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan Seven people are killed, 660 injured. |
73695 | June 28 | Event | 1996 – The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law. |
73696 | June 28 | Event | 1997 – Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the 3rd round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear. |
73697 | June 28 | Event | 2001 – Slobodan Milošević is deported to ICTY to stand trial. |
73698 | June 28 | Event | 2004 – Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation. |
73699 | June 28 | Event | 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. |
73700 | June 28 | Birth | 1476 – Pope Paul IV (d. 1559) |
73701 | June 28 | Birth | 1490 – Albert of Mainz, German archbishop (d. 1545) |
73702 | June 28 | Birth | 1491 – Henry VIII of England (d. 1547) |
73703 | June 28 | Birth | 1503 – Giovanni della Casa, Italian author and poet (d. 1556) |
73704 | June 28 | Birth | 1547 – Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1599) |
73705 | June 28 | Birth | 1577 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter and diplomat (d. 1640) |
73706 | June 28 | Birth | 1582 – William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English politician (d. 1662) |
73707 | June 28 | Birth | 1641 – Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, Polish wife of John III Sobieski (d. 1716) |
73708 | June 28 | Birth | 1703 – John Wesley, English cleric and theologian (d. 1791) |
73709 | June 28 | Birth | 1712 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher and polymath (d. 1778) |
73710 | June 28 | Birth | 1719 – Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1785) |