Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 28

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 * 1461 – Edward IV was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
 * 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The militia of the Province of South Carolina repelled a British attack on Charleston.
 * 1841 – Giselle (title role pictured), a ballet by the French composer Adolphe Adam, was first performed at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris.
 * 1846 – Belgian musician Adolphe Sax patented his design of the saxophone (example pictured).
 * 1895 – The U.S. Court of Private Land Claims ruled that James Reavis claim to 18600 sqmi of land in present-day Arizona and New Mexico was "wholly fictitious and fraudulent".
 * 1904 – In the worst maritime disaster involving a Danish merchant ship, SS Norge ran aground on Hasselwood Rock and sank in the North Atlantic, resulting in more than 635 deaths.
 * 1911 – The Nakhla meteorite (fragments pictured), the first meteorite to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, fell to Earth in Abu Hummus, Egypt.
 * 1916 – First World War: Around 55,000 workers in Berlin went on strike to protest against the trial of anti-war campaigner Karl Liebknecht.
 * 1942 – World War II: The Wehrmacht launched Case Blue, a strategic German offensive to capture oil fields in the south of the Soviet Union.
 * 1950 – Korean War: South Korean forces began the Bodo League massacre, summarily executing tens of thousands of suspected North Korean sympathizers.
 * 1956 – Polish workers demanding better working conditions began massive protests in Poznań, but were later violently repressed by the Polish People's Army and the Internal Security Corps.
 * 1978 – In Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the U.S. Supreme Court barred quota systems in college admissions but held that affirmative-action programs advantaging minorities were constitutional.
 * 1990 – Paperback Software, a company founded by Adam Osborne, was found guilty of copyright infringement for using Lotus 1-2-3's look-and-feel interface in its own spreadsheet program.
 * 2016 – Gunmen attacked Istanbul's Atatürk Airport, killing 45 people and injuring more than 230 others.
 * Born/died: | Pope Leo II |d|683| James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley |d|1497|  Primož Trubar |d|1586| William Hooper |b|1742| Elizabeth Ann Linley |d|1792| Paul Broca |b|1824| James Madison |d|1836| Charles Cruft |b|1852| Olga Sapphire|b|1907| Yvonne Sylvain |b|1907| Amira Hass |b|1956| Meralda Warren|b|1959| Martha Wise |d|1971|Franz Stangl |d|1971 Makode Linde |b|1981| Kiichi Miyazawa|d|2007

June 28: Vidovdan in Serbia


 * 572 – Alboin, the king of the Lombards, was assassinated in Verona in a coup d'état instigated by the Byzantines.
 * 1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip (pictured), a Yugoslav nationalist, sparking the outbreak of World War I.
 * 1969 – In response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, groups of gay and transgender people began demonstrations, a watershed event for the worldwide gay rights movement.
 * 1989 – President Slobodan Milošević gave a speech at Gazimestan in which he described the possibility of "armed battles" in the future of Serbia's national development.