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  • 2016-06-28Conflict
    Gunmen attacked Istanbul's Atatürk Airport, killing 45 people and injuring more than 230 others.
  • 1990-06-28Conflict
    Paperback 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.
  • 1989-06-28Conflict
    President Slobodan Milošević gave a speech at Gazimestan in which he described the possibility of "armed battles" in the future of Serbia's national development.
  • 1978-06-28General
    In 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 & Culture
    In 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.
  • 1963-06-28Geopolitics
    Profumo affair: During the trial of Stephen Ward, Mandy Rice-Davies uttered the phrase "Well he would, wouldn't he?"
  • 1956-06-28Conflict
    Polish 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.
  • 1950-06-28Conflict
    Korean War: South Korean forces began the Bodo League massacre, summarily executing tens of thousands of suspected North Korean sympathizers.
  • 1942-06-28Conflict
    World War II: The Wehrmacht launched Case Blue, a strategic German offensive to capture oil fields in the south of the Soviet Union.
  • 1916-06-28Conflict
    First World War: Around 55,000 workers in Berlin went on strike to protest against the trial of anti-war campaigner Karl Liebknecht.
  • 1914-06-28Conflict
    Archduke 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 & Tech
    The Nakhla meteorite (fragments pictured), the first meteorite to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, fell to Earth in Abu Hummus, Egypt.
  • 1904-06-28Disaster
    In 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.
  • 1895-06-28Conflict
    The 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".
  • 1880-06-28Conflict
    Police captured Australian bank robber and cultural icon Ned Kelly (pictured) after a gun battle in Glenrowan, Victoria.
  • 1846-06-28Arts & Culture
    Belgian musician Adolphe Sax patented his design of the saxophone (example pictured).
  • 1841-06-28Arts & Culture
    Giselle (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.
  • 1776-06-28Conflict
    American Revolutionary War: The militia of the Province of South Carolina repelled a British attack on Charleston.
  • 1461-06-28Geopolitics
    Edward IV was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
  • 0572-06-28Conflict
    Alboin, the king of the Lombards, was assassinated in Verona in a coup d'état instigated by the Byzantines.
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