Year 1838
Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
JUNE 28
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28 June: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 28 June.
Year 1846
Adolf Sax patented the saxophone.
Year 1926
Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz merged to form Mercedes-Benz.
Year 1972
Simla Conference began after the Second Indo-Pak War.
Year 1986
Indian Union Government sanctions maternity leave for unmarried women employees too.
Year 1997
Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear.
Year 2001
Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.
Year 2004
Iraq War: Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
Year 2009
Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran Constitution. This was the start of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis.
Year 2016
A terrorist attack in Turkey's Istanbul Atatürk Airport kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others.
Born 1712
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a Genevan philosopher, writer and composer.
Born 1921
P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)
Born 1971
Aanand L. Rai, a Hindi film director, and producer.
Born 1973
Vishal Dadlani, an Indian singer, songwriter, and music composer.
Died 1836
James Madison Jr., the fourth president of the United States.
Died 1972
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, an Indian scientist, and statistician.
Died 1987
Gajanan Anant Joshi, an Indian vocalist, and violinist in the field of Hindustani music.
Died 2009
A. K. Lohithadas, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1955)
Died 2020
Geetha Nagabhushan, a noted Indian feminist writer.