WHAT HAPPENED ON 28. JUNE
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Labor Day becomes an official US holiday. (28. June 1894)

El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Greater Republic of Central America. (28. June 1895)

Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis' claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent." (28. June 1895)

An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston City, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners. (28. June 1896)

The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal. (28. June 1902)

The SS Norge runs aground and sinks (28. June 1904)

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by Bosnia Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip, the casus belli of World War I. (28. June 1914)

The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, bringing fighting to an end in between Germany and the Allies of World War I. (28. June 1919)

Serbian King Alexander I proclaimed the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution. (28. June 1921)

The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces. (28. June 1922)

The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China. (28. June 1936)

Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union. (28. June 1940)

World War II: Nazi Germany started its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue (28. June 1942)

Poland's Soviet-allied Provisional Government of National Unity is formed over a month after V-E Day. (28. June 1945)

The Cominform circulates the "Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia"; Yugoslavia is expelled from the Communist bloc. (28. June 1948)

Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era. (28. June 1948)

Korean War: Seoul is captured by North Korean troops. (28. June 1950)

Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers, argued to be between 100,000 and 200,000 are executed in the Bodo League massacre. (28. June 1950)

Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blow up the Hangang Bridge to in attempt to slow North Korea's offensive. (28. June 1950)

Korean War: North Korean Army conducted Seoul National University Hospital Massacre. (28. June 1950)

   
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