EST. DECEMBER 1994 • 30+ YEARS ONLINE
yow.com 🐯
Owned continuously since 1994
TODAY IN HISTORY
June 28
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Day 178 of 2026 | Week 26 | 181 days until Christmas 🎅
HISTORIC EVENTS
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 bombed 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.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
4x Gold Glove Award)
Hungarian athlete
American actor (The Many Saints of Newark
Dutch soccer player (Tonegido
American NFL linebacker (NY Jets)
New Zealand army officer (Victoria Cross for NZ)
American actress (Annie)
American basketball guard (Sacramento Kings) and coach (Uni of Buffalo
Irish soccer defender (72 caps Republic of Ireland; Millwall
Japanese actress and television personality
American baseball player
American filmmaker and actor (The White Lotus)
Pakistani cricketer (prodigious Pakistani leggie 1990-)
American actor (Chris-Out of this World)
Israeli actress (Daredevil
🎯 yow.com Connection
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