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- 2016-06-28ConflictGunmen attacked Istanbul's Atatürk Airport, killing 45 people and injuring more than 230 others.
- 1990-06-28ConflictPaperback Software, a company founded by Adam Osborne, was found guilty of copyright infringement for using Lotus 1-2-3's look-and-feel interface in its own spreadsheet program.
- 1989-06-28ConflictPresident Slobodan Milošević gave a speech at Gazimestan in which he described the possibility of "armed battles" in the future of Serbia's national development.
- 1978-06-28GeneralIn Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the U.S. Supreme Court barred quota systems in college admissions but held that affirmative-action programs advantaging minorities were constitutional.
- 1969-06-28Arts & CultureIn response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, groups of gay and transgender people began demonstrations, a watershed event for the worldwide gay rights movement.
- 1963-06-28GeopoliticsProfumo affair: During the trial of Stephen Ward, Mandy Rice-Davies uttered the phrase "Well he would, wouldn't he?"
- 1956-06-28ConflictPolish workers demanding better working conditions began massive protests in Poznań, but were later violently repressed by the Polish People's Army and the Internal Security Corps.
- 1950-06-28ConflictKorean War: South Korean forces began the Bodo League massacre, summarily executing tens of thousands of suspected North Korean sympathizers.
- 1942-06-28ConflictWorld War II: The Wehrmacht launched Case Blue, a strategic German offensive to capture oil fields in the south of the Soviet Union.
- 1916-06-28ConflictFirst World War: Around 55,000 workers in Berlin went on strike to protest against the trial of anti-war campaigner Karl Liebknecht.
- 1914-06-28ConflictArchduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip (pictured), a Yugoslav nationalist, sparking the outbreak of World War I.
- 1911-06-28Science & TechThe Nakhla meteorite (fragments pictured), the first meteorite to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, fell to Earth in Abu Hummus, Egypt.
- 1904-06-28DisasterIn the worst maritime disaster involving a Danish merchant ship, SS Norge ran aground on Hasselwood Rock and sank in the North Atlantic, resulting in more than 635 deaths.
- 1895-06-28ConflictThe U.S. Court of Private Land Claims ruled that James Reavis's claim to 18,600 sq mi (48,000 km2) of land in present-day Arizona and New Mexico was "wholly fictitious and fraudulent".
- 1880-06-28ConflictPolice captured Australian bank robber and cultural icon Ned Kelly (pictured) after a gun battle in Glenrowan, Victoria.
- 1846-06-28Arts & CultureBelgian musician Adolphe Sax patented his design of the saxophone (example pictured).
- 1841-06-28Arts & CultureGiselle (title role pictured), a ballet by the French composer Adolphe Adam, was first performed at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris.
- 1776-06-28ConflictAmerican Revolutionary War: The militia of the Province of South Carolina repelled a British attack on Charleston.
- 1461-06-28GeopoliticsEdward IV was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
- 0572-06-28ConflictAlboin, the king of the Lombards, was assassinated in Verona in a coup d'état instigated by the Byzantines.