Editing June 28 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1902]] &ndash; The [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] passes the [[Spooner Act]], authorizing President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] to acquire rights from Colombia for the [[Panama Canal]].
*[[1904]] &ndash; The {{SS|Norge||}} runs aground on [[Hasselwood Rock]] in the North Atlantic {{convert|430|km}} northwest of [[Ireland]]. More than 635 people die during the sinking.
*[[1911]] &ndash; The [[Nakhla meteorite]],  the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on [[Mars]], falls to Earth, landing in Egypt.
*[[1914]] &ndash; [[Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria]] and his wife [[Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg|Sophie]] are [[Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria|assassinated]] in Sarajevo; this is the ''[[casus belli]]'' of [[World War I]].
*[[1917]] &ndash; World War I: [[Greece during World War I|Greece joins]] the Allied powers.
*[[1919]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Versailles]] is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the [[Allies of World War I]].
*[[1921]] &ndash; Serbian King [[Alexander I of Yugoslavia|Alexander I]] proclaims the new constitution of the [[Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes]], known thereafter as the [[Vidovdan Constitution]].
*[[1922]] &ndash; The [[Irish Civil War]] begins with the shelling of the [[Four Courts]] in [[Dublin]] by [[Irish Free State|Free State]] forces.
*[[1926]] &ndash; [[Mercedes-Benz]] is formed by [[Gottlieb Daimler]] and [[Karl Benz]] merging their two companies.
*[[1936]] &ndash; The Japanese puppet state of [[Mengjiang]] is formed in northern China.
*[[1940]] &ndash; [[Kingdom of Romania|Romania]] cedes [[Bessarabia]] and Northern [[Bukovina]] to the [[Soviet Union]] after [[Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina|facing an ultimatum]].
*[[1942]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[Nazi Germany]] starts its strategic summer offensive against the [[Soviet Union]], codenamed [[Case Blue]].
*[[1945]] &ndash; Poland's Soviet-allied [[Provisional Government of National Unity]] is formed over a month after [[Victory in Europe Day|V-E Day]].
*[[1948]] &ndash; [[Cold War]]: The [[Tito–Stalin Split]] results in the expulsion of the [[League of Communists of Yugoslavia]] from the [[Cominform]].
*  1948   &ndash; Boxer [[Dick Turpin (boxer)|Dick Turpin]] beats [[Vince Hawkins]] at [[Villa Park]] in [[Birmingham]] to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.
*[[1950]] &ndash; [[Korean War]]: Suspected communist sympathizers (between 60,000 and 200,000) are executed in the [[Bodo League massacre]].
*  1950   &ndash; Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blow up the [[Hangang Bridge bombing|Hangang Bridge]] in an attempt to slow [[First Battle of Seoul|North Korea's offensive]]. The city falls later that day.
*  1950   &ndash; Korean War: The [[Korean People's Army]] kills almost a thousand doctors, nurses, inpatient civilians and wounded soldiers in the [[Seoul National University Hospital massacre]].
*[[1956]] &ndash; In [[Poznań]], workers from [[H. Cegielski – Poznań|HCP factory]] go to the streets, sparking one of the [[Poznań 1956 protests|first major protests against communist government]] both in Poland and Europe.
*[[1964]] &ndash; [[Malcolm X]] forms the [[Organization of Afro-American Unity]].
*[[1969]] &ndash; [[Stonewall riots]] begin in New York City, marking the start of the [[Gay Rights Movement]].
*[[1973]] &ndash; Elections are held for the [[Northern Ireland Assembly (1973)|Northern Ireland Assembly]], which will lead to power-sharing between [[Unionism in Ireland|unionists]] and [[Irish nationalism|nationalists]] in [[Northern Ireland]] for the first time.
*[[1976]] &ndash; The [[Angola]]n court sentences US and UK [[mercenaries]] to death sentences and prison terms in the [[Luanda Trial]].
*[[1978]] &ndash; The [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]], in ''[[Regents of the University of California v. Bakke]]'' bars quota systems in college admissions.
*[[1981]] &ndash; A powerful [[Hafte Tir bombing|bomb explodes]] in [[Tehran]], killing 73 officials of the [[Islamic Republican Party]].
*[[1982]] &ndash; [[Aeroflot Flight 8641]] crashes in [[Mazyr]], Belarus, killing 132 people.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Yakovlev Yak-42 CCCP-42529 Verbovichi, Narowla District|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19820628-1|access-date=2021-06-27|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[1987]] &ndash; For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for [[Sulfur mustard|chemical attack]] when Iraqi warplanes [[Chemical bombing of Sardasht|bombed]] the Iranian town of [[Sardasht, West Azerbaijan|Sardasht]].
*[[1989]] &ndash; On the 600th anniversary of the [[Battle of Kosovo]], [[Slobodan Milošević]] delivers the [[Gazimestan speech]] at the site of the historic battle.
*[[1997]] &ndash; [[Holyfield–Tyson II]]: [[Mike Tyson]] is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off [[Evander Holyfield]]'s ear.
*[[2001]] &ndash; [[Slobodan Milošević]] is extradited to the [[ICTY]] in [[The Hague]] to stand trial.
*[[2004]] &ndash; [[Iraq War]]: Sovereign power is handed to the [[Iraqi Interim Government|interim government of Iraq]] by the [[Coalition Provisional Authority]], ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
*[[2009]] &ndash; [[Honduras|Honduran]] president [[Manuel Zelaya]] is [[2009 Honduran coup d'état|ousted]] by a local military coup following a failed request to hold [[Honduran fourth ballot box referendum|a referendum]] to rewrite the [[Honduran Constitution]]. This was the start of the [[2009 Honduran constitutional crisis]].<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/world/americas/29honduras.html</ref>
* [[2012]] &ndash; The [[United States Supreme Court]] upholds the constitutionality of the [[Affordable Care Act's [[Individual shared responsibility provision|individual mandate]] in [[National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius]].<ref>https://www.oyez.org/cases/2011/11-393</ref>
*[[2016]] &ndash; [[2016 Istanbul Atatürk Airport attack|A terrorist attack]] in Turkey's [[Istanbul Atatürk Airport]] kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others.