Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 28

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• Alto saxophone
  Alto saxophone
• Archduke Ferdinand and family
  Archduke Ferdinand and family
• Archduke Franz Ferdinand
  Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
  Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• Fragments of the Nakhla meteorite
  Fragments of the Nakhla meteorite
• James Reavis, the Baron of Arizona
  James Reavis, the Baron of Arizona
• Manuel Zelaya
  Manuel Zelaya
• Anna Pavlova as Giselle
  Anna Pavlova as Giselle
• Gavrilo Princip
  Gavrilo Princip

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Blurb	Reason
Constitution Day in Ukraine	stub
1651 – Khmelnytsky Uprising: The Zaporozhian Cossacks began clashing with forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Berestechko in the Volhynia Region of present-day Ukraine.	refimprove section
1776 – Thomas Hickey, a private in the Continental Army and bodyguard to George Washington, became the first person to be executed for treason against what was to become the United States.	refimprove section
1919 – The Treaty of Versailles was signed, formally ending World War I.	refimprove section
1922 – The Irish Civil War began with an assault by the Irish Free State's National Army on the Four Courts building, which had been occupied by the Anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army.	refimprove section
1967 – Israel annexed East Jerusalem, having captured it from Jordan in the Six-Day War.	expansion
1981 – Seventy-three leading officials of Iran's Islamic Republican Party were killed when a bomb exploded at the party's headquarters in Tehran.	neutrality issues
1992 – Japanese mountain climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to complete the Seven Summits.	appears on May 16
1997 – Mike Tyson bit off a portion of Evander Holyfield's ear during a boxing match at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.	refimprove section
2004 – The Coalition Provisional Authority dissolved after handing the governance of Iraq to the Iraqi Interim Government.	lots of CN tags (5)
2005 – War in Afghanistan: eleven U.S. Navy SEALs and eight American special operations soldiers were killed during a failed counter-insurgent mission in Kunar Province.	Incomplete citations
2009 – Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was ousted by a local military coup following his attempt to hold a referendum to rewrite the constitution.	refimprove section
Muhammad Azam Shah |b|1653	unreferenced section (Ancestry)

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• 572 – Alboin, the king of the Lombards, was assassinated in Verona in a coup d'état instigated by the Byzantines.
• 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).
• 1911 – The Nakhla meteorite (fragments pictured), the first meteorite to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, fell to Earth in Abu Hummus, Egypt.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1990 – Paperback Software, a company founded by Adam Osborne, was found guilty of copyright infringement for using [[Lotus 1-2-3|Lotus Template:Nowrap]]'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| Yvonne Sylvain |b|1907| Muhammad Yunus |b|1940| Don Baylor|b|1949|Amira Hass |b|1956| Martha Wise |d|1971|Franz Stangl |d|1971| Vannevar Bush|d|1974|Makode Linde |b|1981| Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan|b|1994| Kiichi Miyazawa|d|2007

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• 1880 – Police captured Australian bank robber and cultural icon Ned Kelly (pictured) after a gun battle in Glenrowan, Victoria.
• 1895 – The U.S. Court of Private Land Claims ruled that James ReavisTemplate:`s claim to Template:Cvt 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.
• 1950 – Korean War: South Korean forces began the Bodo League massacre, summarily executing tens of thousands of suspected North Korean sympathizers.
• 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.