June 28

A terrorist attack in Turkey's Istanbul Atatürk Airport kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others. ›

The United States Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius. ›

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. ›

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. ›

Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial. ›

Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear. ›

On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle. ›

For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bomb the Iranian town of Sardasht. ›

Aeroflot Flight 8641 crashes in Mazyr, Belarus, killing 132 people. ›

A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republican Party. ›

The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, bars quota systems in college admissions. ›

The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial. ›

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. ›

Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement. ›

Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity. ›

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. ›

Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blow up the Hangang Bridge in an attempt to slow North Korea's offensive. The city falls later that day. ›

Korean War: The Korean People's Army kills almost a thousand doctors, nurses, inpatient civilians and wounded soldiers in the Seoul National University Hospital massacre. ›

Cold War: The Tito–Stalin Split results in the expulsion of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from the Cominform. ›

Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era. ›

Poland's Soviet-allied Provisional Government of National Unity is formed over a month after V-E Day. ›

World War II: Nazi Germany starts its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue. ›

Romania cedes Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union after facing an ultimatum. ›

The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China. ›

Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies. ›

The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces. ›

Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution. ›

The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I. ›

World War I: Greece joins the Allied powers. ›

Causes of World War I: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo, beginning the July Crisis and providing the casus belli of World War I. ›

The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt. ›

The SS Norge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270 mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking. ›

The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal. ›

An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners. ›

The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis's claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent." ›

Labor Day becomes an official US holiday. ›

The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone. ›

The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed. ›

Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan. ›

The US Congress establishes the first federal holidays (New Year Day, July 4th, Thanksgiving, and Christmas).

The Army of the Potomac is disbanded. ›

The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. ›

Sigma Chi fraternity is founded in North America. ›

The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier. ›

Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. ›

Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelocke lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals. ›

French troops disembark in Corfu, beginning the French rule in the Ionian Islands. ›

American Revolutionary War: The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness. ›

American Revolution: Thomas Jefferson and the Committee of Five present the draft of the United States Declaration of Independence to the Second Continental Congress, which orders it to "lie on the table" for further edits by the assembly. ›

American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Sullivan's Island ends with the American victory, leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day. ›

American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition. ›

A New England colonial army captures the French fortifications at Louisbourg (New Style). ›

The Battle of Berestechko between Poland and Ukraine starts. ›

Guadeloupe becomes a French colony. ›

Sengoku period of Japan: The combined forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu are victorious in the Battle of Nagashino. ›

Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. ›

A French force heavily defeats a much larger Neapolitan and Spanish army at the battle of Seminara, leading to the creation of the Tercios by Gonzalo de Córdoba. ›

Edward, Earl of March, is crowned King Edward IV of England. ›

Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II. ›

Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul at the battle of Antioch. ›