• Jun 28 2006

    19 Years ago

    The Republic of Montenegro was admitted as the 192nd United Nations Member States by United Nations General Assembly resolution 60/264.


  • Jun 28 2005

    20 Years ago

    Canada becomes the third country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.


  • Jun 28 2005

    20 Years ago

    A final design for Manhattan's Freedom Tower is formally unveiled.


  • Jun 28 2004

    21 Years ago

    The 2004 Istanbul Summit starts in Istanbul.


  • Jun 28 2004

    21 Years ago

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


  • Jun 28 2004

    21 Years ago

    Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism


  • Jun 28 2001

    24 Years ago

    U.S. Appeals Court overturns a lower court's order to break up Microsoft in an antitrust case.


  • Jun 28 2000

    25 Years ago

    Cuban exile Elián González returns to Cuba following a Supreme Court of the United States order.


  • Jun 28 1997

    28 Years ago

    Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield II - Tyson is disqualified in the 3rd round for biting a piece from Holyfield's ear.


  • Jun 28 1996

    29 Years ago

    The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.


  • Jun 28 1994

    31 Years ago

    Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas attack at Matsumoto, Japan, 7 persons killed, 660 injured.


  • Jun 28 1992

    33 Years ago

    The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.


  • Jun 28 1990

    35 Years ago

    Paperback Software International Ltd. 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.


  • Jun 28 1989

    36 Years ago

    Slobodan Miloševic delivers the Kosovo Polje speech


  • Jun 28 1988

    37 Years ago

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


  • Jun 28 1986

    39 Years ago

    ''¡A Luchar!'' holds its first congress in Bogotá, Colombia.


  • Jun 28 1983

    42 Years ago

    The Mianus River Bridge collapses over the Mianus River in Connecticut, killing 3 drivers in their vehicles.


  • Jun 28 1978

    47 Years ago

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


  • Jun 28 1976

    49 Years ago

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


  • Jun 28 1973

    52 Years ago

    Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973, which will lead to power-sharing between Unionism in Ireland and Irish nationalism in Northern Ireland for the first time.



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