June 28
1836 - James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, died at Montpelier, his Virginia estate at age 85.
1838 - Britain's Queen Victoria was crowned at Westminster Abbey.
1863 - During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Maj. Gen. George G. 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 by an act of Congress.
1914 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip, setting off events that would lead to World War I.
1919 - The Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, bringing World War I to an end.
1919 - Harry S. Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence, Missouri.
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, South Korea.
1964 - Civil rights activist Malcolm X declared, “We want equality by any means necessary” during the Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity in New York.
1967 - Israel declared Jerusalem reunified under its sovereignty following its capture of the Arab sector in the Six-Day War.
1967 - Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, was named a cardinal.
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.
1996 - The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, voted to admit female cadets.
2000 - Elian Gonzalez was returned to his father in Cuba.
2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts of America can bar homosexuals from serving as troop leaders.
2001 - Serbia handed over Slobodan Milosevic to the U.N. war crimes tribunal.
2004 - In Iraq, the United States transferred power back to the Iraqis two days earlier than planned.
2004 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that enemy combatants can challenge their detention in U.S. courts.
2007 - The American bald eagle was removed from the endangered species list.
2010 - Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-West Virginia), the longest serving senator in U.S. history, died in Fairfax, Virginia at age 92.
2010 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Americans have the right to own a gun for self-defense anywhere they live.
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.
2016 - House Republicans concluded their $7 million, two-year investigation into the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya, with fresh accusations of lethal mistakes by the Obama administration but no “smoking gun” pointing to wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton, who said the report “found nothing, nothing to contradict” the findings of earlier investigations.
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.
2020 - The world surpassed two coronavirus milestones – 500,000 confirmed deaths, 10 million confirmed cases, while also hitting another high mark for daily new infections.
Birthdays
35 - Kellie Pickler (country singer)
42 - Felicia Day (actress)
45 - Camille Guaty (actress)
49 - Alessandro Nivola (actor)
50 - Elon Musk (entrepreneur)
51 - Steve Burton (actor)
52 - Tichina Arnold (actress)
52 - Danielle Brisebois (actress/singer)
55 - John Cusack (actor)
55 - Mary Stuart Masterson (actress)
56 - Jessica Hecht (actress)
58 - Tierney Sutton (singer)
61 - John Elway (football player)
67 - Alice Krige (actress)
73 - Kathy Bates (actress)
75 - Bruce Davison (actor)
84 - John Byner (comedian)
95 - Mel Brooks (actor/director)
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Today in Sports History - June 28
1971 - The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali.
1973 - Paul Robeson, Elgin Baylor, Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, Wilma Rudolph, Joe Louis and Althea Gibson are named to the Black Sports Hall of Fame.
1975 - Lee Trevino and playing partners Jerry Heard, Bobby Nichols, Jim Ahern and Tony Jackson are struck by lightning at the Western Open; all suffered minor burns.
1992 - The U.S. men's national basketball team's "Dream Team" made its international debut with a 133-57 win over Cuba in an exhibition game.
1995 - The Golden State Warriors select Maryland forward Joe Smith with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
1996 - Darryl Strawberry recorded his 300th career home run.
1997 - Boxer Mike Tyson bit off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear during their heavyweight title fight, earning a 16-month suspension.
2000 - Jeff Cirillo (Colorado Rockies) hit three home runs and a double against San Francisco.
2000 - The New Jersey Nets select Cincinnati 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 Benetton Treviso from Italy with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2007 - Craig Biggio of the Houston Astros becomes the 27th player in major league 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.
2016 - Death claimed legendary basketball coach Pat Summit at age 64 and football coach Buddy Ryan at age 85.
1836 - James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, died at Montpelier, his Virginia estate at age 85.
1838 - Britain's Queen Victoria was crowned at Westminster Abbey.
1863 - During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Maj. Gen. George G. 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 by an act of Congress.
1914 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip, setting off events that would lead to World War I.
1919 - The Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, bringing World War I to an end.
1919 - Harry S. Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence, Missouri.
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, South Korea.
1964 - Civil rights activist Malcolm X declared, “We want equality by any means necessary” during the Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity in New York.
1967 - Israel declared Jerusalem reunified under its sovereignty following its capture of the Arab sector in the Six-Day War.
1967 - Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, was named a cardinal.
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.
1996 - The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, voted to admit female cadets.
2000 - Elian Gonzalez was returned to his father in Cuba.
2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts of America can bar homosexuals from serving as troop leaders.
2001 - Serbia handed over Slobodan Milosevic to the U.N. war crimes tribunal.
2004 - In Iraq, the United States transferred power back to the Iraqis two days earlier than planned.
2004 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that enemy combatants can challenge their detention in U.S. courts.
2007 - The American bald eagle was removed from the endangered species list.
2010 - Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-West Virginia), the longest serving senator in U.S. history, died in Fairfax, Virginia at age 92.
2010 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Americans have the right to own a gun for self-defense anywhere they live.
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.
2016 - House Republicans concluded their $7 million, two-year investigation into the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya, with fresh accusations of lethal mistakes by the Obama administration but no “smoking gun” pointing to wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton, who said the report “found nothing, nothing to contradict” the findings of earlier investigations.
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.
2020 - The world surpassed two coronavirus milestones – 500,000 confirmed deaths, 10 million confirmed cases, while also hitting another high mark for daily new infections.
Birthdays
35 - Kellie Pickler (country singer)
42 - Felicia Day (actress)
45 - Camille Guaty (actress)
49 - Alessandro Nivola (actor)
50 - Elon Musk (entrepreneur)
51 - Steve Burton (actor)
52 - Tichina Arnold (actress)
52 - Danielle Brisebois (actress/singer)
55 - John Cusack (actor)
55 - Mary Stuart Masterson (actress)
56 - Jessica Hecht (actress)
58 - Tierney Sutton (singer)
61 - John Elway (football player)
67 - Alice Krige (actress)
73 - Kathy Bates (actress)
75 - Bruce Davison (actor)
84 - John Byner (comedian)
95 - Mel Brooks (actor/director)
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Today in Sports History - June 28
1971 - The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali.
1973 - Paul Robeson, Elgin Baylor, Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, Wilma Rudolph, Joe Louis and Althea Gibson are named to the Black Sports Hall of Fame.
1975 - Lee Trevino and playing partners Jerry Heard, Bobby Nichols, Jim Ahern and Tony Jackson are struck by lightning at the Western Open; all suffered minor burns.
1992 - The U.S. men's national basketball team's "Dream Team" made its international debut with a 133-57 win over Cuba in an exhibition game.
1995 - The Golden State Warriors select Maryland forward Joe Smith with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
1996 - Darryl Strawberry recorded his 300th career home run.
1997 - Boxer Mike Tyson bit off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear during their heavyweight title fight, earning a 16-month suspension.
2000 - Jeff Cirillo (Colorado Rockies) hit three home runs and a double against San Francisco.
2000 - The New Jersey Nets select Cincinnati 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 Benetton Treviso from Italy with the first pick in the NBA Draft.
2007 - Craig Biggio of the Houston Astros becomes the 27th player in major league 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.
2016 - Death claimed legendary basketball coach Pat Summit at age 64 and football coach Buddy Ryan at age 85.
