June 28
1836 - James Madison, the fourth president of the United States (1809-1817), died at Montpelier, his Virginia estate at age 85.
1838 - Britain's Queen Victoria was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1863 - During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Maj. Gen. George C. Meade the new commander of the Army of the Potomac, following the resignation of Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker.
1894 - Labor Day became a federal holiday via an act of Congress.
1914 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife were assassinated by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip, setting off World War I.
1919 - The Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, bringing World War I to an end.
1939 - Pan American Airways began regular trans-Atlantic air service with a flight that departed New York for Marseilles, France.
1940 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Alien Registration Act, also known as the Smith Act, which required adult foreigners residing in the U.S. to be registered and fingerprinted.
1950 - North Korean forces captured Seoul, the capital of South Korea.
1978 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke that the use of quotas in affirmative action programs was not permissible by ordering the University of California-Davis Medical School to admit Allan Bakke, a white man who argued he'd been a victim of reverse racial discrimination.
1994 - President Bill Clinton became the first chief executive in U.S. history to set up a personal legal defense fund and ask Americans to contribute to it.
1996 - The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, voted to admit female cadets.
2000 - Seven months after he was cast adrift in the Florida Straits, Elian Gonzalez was returned to his native Cuba.
2001 - Serbia handed over Slobodan Milosevic to the U.N. war crimes tribunal.
2004 - In Iraq, the United States transferred power back over to the Iraqis two days earlier than planned.
2010 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Americans had the right to own a gun for self-defense anywhere they lived.
2013 - The four plaintiffs in the U.S. Supreme Court case that overturned California's same-sex marriage ban tied the knot, just hours after a federal appeals court freed gay couples to obtain marriage licenses in the state for the first time in 4 1/2 years.
2019 - Avowed white supremacist James Alex Fields, who deliberately drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing a young woman and injuring dozens, apologized to his victims before being sentenced to life in prison on federal hate crime charges.
2022 - Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls. The sentencing was the culmination of a prosecution that detailed how Epstein and Maxwell flaunted their riches and associations with prominent people to groom vulnerable girls and then exploit them.
Birthdays
31 - Elaine Thompson-Herah (track and field athlete)
37 - Kellie Pickler (singer)
44 - Felicia Day (actress)
47 - Camille Guaty (actress)
51 - Alessandro Nivola (actress)
52 - Elon Musk (entrepreneur)
53 - Steve Burton (actor)
54 - Tichina Arnold (actress)
54 - Danielle Brisebois (actress/singer)
56 - Gil Bellows (actor)
57 - John Cusack (actor)
57 - Mary Stuart Masterson (actress)
58 - Jessica Hecht (actress)
63 - John Elway (football player)
69 - Alice Krige (actress)
75 - Kathy Bates (actress)
77 - Bruce Davison (actor)
86 - John Byner (comedian)
97 - Mel Brooks (comedian)
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Today in Sports History - June 28
1971 - The U.S. Supreme Court overtuned the draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali.
1973 - The Black Sports Hall of Fame is founded; initial members enshrined included Elgin Baylor, Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, Wilma Rudolph, Joe Louis and Althea Gibson.
1992 - The U.S. men's basketball team (the "Dream Team"), defeats Cuba 133-57 in their first exhibition game.
1995 - The Golden State Warriors select Maryland power forward Joe Smith with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
1997 - Boxer Mike Tyson bit off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear during their heavyweight title fight; as a result Tyson was given a 16-month suspension from the sport.
2000 - The New Jersey Nets select Cincinnati power forward Kenyon Martin with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2005 - The Milwaukee Bucks select Utah center Andrew Bogut with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2006 - The Toronto Raptors select forward Andrea Bargnani of Italy with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2007 - Craig Biggio of the Houston Astros becomes the 27th player in MLB history to record 3,000 career hits.
2007 - The Portland Trailblazers select Ohio State center Greg Oden with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2012 - The New Orleans Pelicans select Kentucky Center Anthony Davis with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
1836 - James Madison, the fourth president of the United States (1809-1817), died at Montpelier, his Virginia estate at age 85.
1838 - Britain's Queen Victoria was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1863 - During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Maj. Gen. George C. Meade the new commander of the Army of the Potomac, following the resignation of Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker.
1894 - Labor Day became a federal holiday via an act of Congress.
1914 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife were assassinated by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip, setting off World War I.
1919 - The Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, bringing World War I to an end.
1939 - Pan American Airways began regular trans-Atlantic air service with a flight that departed New York for Marseilles, France.
1940 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Alien Registration Act, also known as the Smith Act, which required adult foreigners residing in the U.S. to be registered and fingerprinted.
1950 - North Korean forces captured Seoul, the capital of South Korea.
1978 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke that the use of quotas in affirmative action programs was not permissible by ordering the University of California-Davis Medical School to admit Allan Bakke, a white man who argued he'd been a victim of reverse racial discrimination.
1994 - President Bill Clinton became the first chief executive in U.S. history to set up a personal legal defense fund and ask Americans to contribute to it.
1996 - The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, voted to admit female cadets.
2000 - Seven months after he was cast adrift in the Florida Straits, Elian Gonzalez was returned to his native Cuba.
2001 - Serbia handed over Slobodan Milosevic to the U.N. war crimes tribunal.
2004 - In Iraq, the United States transferred power back over to the Iraqis two days earlier than planned.
2010 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Americans had the right to own a gun for self-defense anywhere they lived.
2013 - The four plaintiffs in the U.S. Supreme Court case that overturned California's same-sex marriage ban tied the knot, just hours after a federal appeals court freed gay couples to obtain marriage licenses in the state for the first time in 4 1/2 years.
2019 - Avowed white supremacist James Alex Fields, who deliberately drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing a young woman and injuring dozens, apologized to his victims before being sentenced to life in prison on federal hate crime charges.
2022 - Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls. The sentencing was the culmination of a prosecution that detailed how Epstein and Maxwell flaunted their riches and associations with prominent people to groom vulnerable girls and then exploit them.
Birthdays
31 - Elaine Thompson-Herah (track and field athlete)
37 - Kellie Pickler (singer)
44 - Felicia Day (actress)
47 - Camille Guaty (actress)
51 - Alessandro Nivola (actress)
52 - Elon Musk (entrepreneur)
53 - Steve Burton (actor)
54 - Tichina Arnold (actress)
54 - Danielle Brisebois (actress/singer)
56 - Gil Bellows (actor)
57 - John Cusack (actor)
57 - Mary Stuart Masterson (actress)
58 - Jessica Hecht (actress)
63 - John Elway (football player)
69 - Alice Krige (actress)
75 - Kathy Bates (actress)
77 - Bruce Davison (actor)
86 - John Byner (comedian)
97 - Mel Brooks (comedian)
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Today in Sports History - June 28
1971 - The U.S. Supreme Court overtuned the draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali.
1973 - The Black Sports Hall of Fame is founded; initial members enshrined included Elgin Baylor, Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, Wilma Rudolph, Joe Louis and Althea Gibson.
1992 - The U.S. men's basketball team (the "Dream Team"), defeats Cuba 133-57 in their first exhibition game.
1995 - The Golden State Warriors select Maryland power forward Joe Smith with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
1997 - Boxer Mike Tyson bit off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear during their heavyweight title fight; as a result Tyson was given a 16-month suspension from the sport.
2000 - The New Jersey Nets select Cincinnati power forward Kenyon Martin with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2005 - The Milwaukee Bucks select Utah center Andrew Bogut with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2006 - The Toronto Raptors select forward Andrea Bargnani of Italy with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2007 - Craig Biggio of the Houston Astros becomes the 27th player in MLB history to record 3,000 career hits.
2007 - The Portland Trailblazers select Ohio State center Greg Oden with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2012 - The New Orleans Pelicans select Kentucky Center Anthony Davis with the first pick in the NBA Draft.