Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
73681June 28Event1950 – 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.
73682June 28Event1950 – Korean War: North Korean Army conducts Seoul National University Hospital Massacre.
73683June 28Event1956 – 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.
73684June 28Event1964 – Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
73685June 28Event1967 – Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
73686June 28Event1969 – Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.
73687June 28Event1973 – 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.
73688June 28Event1976 – The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
73689June 28Event1978 – The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
73690June 28Event1981 – A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republican Party.
73691June 28Event1987 – For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.
73692June 28Event1989 – On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle.
73693June 28Event1992 – The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
73694June 28Event1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan Seven people are killed, 660 injured.
73695June 28Event1996 – The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
73696June 28Event1997 – Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the 3rd round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear.
73697June 28Event2001 – Slobodan Milošević is deported to ICTY to stand trial.
73698June 28Event2004 – Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
73699June 28Event2009 – 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.
73700June 28Birth1476 – Pope Paul IV (d. 1559)
73701June 28Birth1490 – Albert of Mainz, German archbishop (d. 1545)
73702June 28Birth1491 – Henry VIII of England (d. 1547)
73703June 28Birth1503 – Giovanni della Casa, Italian author and poet (d. 1556)
73704June 28Birth1547 – Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1599)
73705June 28Birth1577 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter and diplomat (d. 1640)
73706June 28Birth1582 – William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English politician (d. 1662)
73707June 28Birth1641 – Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, Polish wife of John III Sobieski (d. 1716)
73708June 28Birth1703 – John Wesley, English cleric and theologian (d. 1791)
73709June 28Birth1712 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher and polymath (d. 1778)
73710June 28Birth1719 – Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1785)

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