June 28 in history — What Happened Today in History

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: Suspected communist sympathizers (between 60,000 and 200,000) are executed in the Bodo League massacre.

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.

Seohyun, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress

Kevin De Bruyne, Belgian footballer

Kang Min-hyuk, South Korean singer, drummer, and actor

Jason Clark, Australian rugby league player

Andrew Fifita, Australian rugby league player

David Fifita, Australian rugby league player

Julia Zlobina, Russian-Azerbaijani figure skater

Markiplier, American internet personality

Nicole Rottmann, Austrian tennis player

Sonata Tamošaitytė, Lithuanian hurdler

Terrence Williams, American basketball player

Kellie Pickler, American singer-songwriter

Phil Bardsley, English footballer

Jack Carter, American actor and comedian (born 1922)

Jope Seniloli, Fijian politician, Vice-President of Fiji (born 1939)

Wally Stanowski, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1919)

Seymour Barab, American cellist and composer (born 1921)

Jim Brosnan, American baseball player (born 1929)

On Kawara, Japanese painter (born 1933)

Meshach Taylor, American actor (born 1947)

Ted Hood, American sailor and architect (born 1927)

Tamás Katona, Hungarian historian and politician (born 1932)

Kenneth Minogue, New Zealand-Australian political scientist and academic (born 1930)

F. D. Reeve, American author and academic (born 1928)

David Rubitsky, American sergeant (born 1917)

Richard Isay, American psychiatrist and author (born 1934)