June 28
People born on this day are Cancer.
- 1976
The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
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The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, bars quota systems in college admissions.
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A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republican Party.
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Aeroflot Flight 8641 crashes in Mazyr, Belarus, killing 132 people.
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For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bomb the Iranian town of Sardasht.
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On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle.
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Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear.
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Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.
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Iraq War: Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
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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.
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The United States Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius.
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A terrorist attack in Turkey's Istanbul Atatürk Airport kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others.
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2005Pio Esposito, Italian footballer
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2002Marta Kostyuk, Ukrainian tennis player
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1999Markéta Vondroušová, Czech tennis player
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1997Tadasuke Makino, Japanese racing driver
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1997Shakur Stevenson, American boxer
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1996Donna Vekić, Croatian tennis player
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1994Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan
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1993Bradley Beal, American basketball player
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1992Oscar Hiljemark, Swedish footballer
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1992Elaine Thompson, Jamaican sprinter
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1991Seohyun, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress
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1991Kevin De Bruyne, Belgian footballer
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