June 28

Tuesday 28, 2005:

AMD files suit against Intel corporation, charging monopolization and antitrust violations.

Monday 28, 2004:

Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.

Saturday 28, 1997:

Boxer Mike Tyson is disqualified from WBA title re-match, for biting off part of the ear of his opponent Evander Holyfield.

Thursday 28, 1990:

Paperback Software found guilty by a U.S. court of copyright violation for copying the appearance and menu system of Lotus 1-2-3 in its competing spreadsheet program.

Tuesday 28, 1988:

The worst confined-space industrial accident in U.S. history occurs at a metal-plating plant in Auburn, Indiana, killing five.

Wednesday 28, 1978:

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

Saturday 28, 1969:

Stonewall riots in New York city mark the beginning of the modern gay rights era.

Wednesday 28, 1967:

Israel annexes East Jerusalem.

Sunday 28, 1964:

Malcom X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.

Tuesday 28, 1960:

US-owned oil refineries in Cuba confiscated and nationalised.

Thursday 28, 1956:

Anti-communist demonstrations in Poznan. Also called <i>Poznański czerwiec</i> (June of Poznan).

Wednesday 28, 1950:

Seoul is captured by troops from North Korea.

Friday 28, 1940:

Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.

Tuesday 28, 1938:

A 450 metric ton meteorite struck the earth in a empty field near Chicora, Pennsylvania

Sunday 28, 1936:

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

Saturday 28, 1919:

The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending World War I with Germany.

Sunday 28, 1914:

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophia are killed in Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist young man: Gavrilo Princip , the casus belli of World War I.

Friday 28, 1895:

El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Central American Union.

Thursday 28, 1894:

Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.

Tuesday 28, 1887:

Minot, North Dakota incorporated as a city.

Monday 28, 1880:

Ned Kelly the Australian bushranger captured at Glenrowan.

Tuesday 28, 1859:

First dog show is held in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England.

Wednesday 28, 1651:

Battle of Beresteczko between Poles and Ukrainians, the biggest battle in the 17th century, starts.

Thursday 28, 1635:

Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.

Saturday 28, 1519:

Charles V elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

Sunday 28, 1389:

Ottoman forces crush the armies of Christian Europe in Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe (see Vidovdan).

Sunday 28, 1243:

Innocent IV becomes pope.

Tuesday 28, 1098:

Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.

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