Armed and bombed suicide attack at Ataturk airport

June 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 186 days left until the end of the year.

Railways

• June 28, 1855 The Ottoman Empire borrows for the first time. 4 million UK gold loans were received from UK and France with 1% interest rate and 5% depreciation. 14 percent of this loan went to rail investments.
• With the Treaty of Versailles of June 28, 1919, all rights on the German railroad from Baghdad were lifted. However, during the war, German companies transferred their shares to a Swiss company.
• June 28, 1942 Agreements are signed with the German group for the delivery of railway material.
• June 28, 1943 The Diyarbakır-Batman line (91 km and 520 m. Bridge) was inaugurated in a ceremony by Proxy Secret Day.

Olaylar

• 1389 – First Battle of Kosovo: The battle between the Ottoman army led by Murad I and the multinational Balkan army led by Serbian commander Lazar Hrebelyanovic resulted in the victory of the Ottoman army.
• 1763 – A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck Komárom, Hungary.
• 1838 – Victoria I crowns the United Kingdom at the age of 18. The Queen ascends to the throne on June 20 and will become the longest reigning monarch in her country’s history.
• 1841 – Giselle The ballet premiered at the Théâtre de l’Académie Royale de Musique in Paris.
• 1862 – Tasviri Efkar newspaper began to be published by Åžinasi.
• 1894 – Labor Day is recognized as a public holiday in the United States.
• 1895 – El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua unite to form the “Central American Union”.
• 1914 – World War I begins after Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie are killed by a Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip.
• 1919 – At the end of World War I, the Versailles Peace Treaty is signed between the Entente powers and Germany.
• 1921 – Kocaeli is taken from British and Greek troops and returns to Turkish lands.
• 1923 – Darülfünun sends the “Honorary Teacher’s Certificate” to Mustafa Kemal.
• 1928 – Socialist Hermann Müller takes office as Chancellor of Germany.
• 1931 – Socialists win legislative elections in Spain.
• 1933 – The High Council for the Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage is created.
• 1938 – A 450 ton meteorite fell on an empty field in Chicora, Pennsylvania.
• 1940 – Romania cedes the region of Bassarabia (now Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
• 1948 – The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is expelled from the Cominform, which forms the communist bloc.
• 1950 – Seoul is captured by North Korean troops.
• 1967 – Israel seizes East Jerusalem.
• 1969 – Stonewall riots begin.
• 1981 – A bomb explodes at the headquarters of the Islamic Republican Party in Tehran; 72 politicians and officials have died.
• 1984 – Martial law is lifted in 13 provinces of Turkey. A state of emergency has been declared in 7 of these provinces; The state of emergency, which was applied in 4 provinces, has been lifted.
• 1989 – Natanz incident: the Natanz atomic plant in Iran collapses with an explosion.
• 1997 – Mike Tyson bit his opponent Evander Holyfield in the ear in the third round of a boxing match and was disqualified.
• 2000 – The United States decides to relax the embargo against Cuba, which it has applied for 41 years.
• 2004 – The 17th NATO summit begins in Istanbul.
• 2005 – Canada becomes the third country to legalize same-sex marriage.
• 2006 – Montenegro is admitted to the United Nations as the 192nd Member State.
• 2009 – Brazil wins the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup.
• 2011 – Google announces its new social networking project Google+.
• 2011 – Independents backed by the CHP and BDP were not sworn in during the first session and the 24th term swearing-in ceremony at the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
• 2016 – An armed suicide bombing attack was carried out at the international terminal of Istanbul Atatürk Airport. As a result of the attack, 45 people were killed, including suicide bombers, and 239 were injured.

births

• 1577 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (died 1640)
• 1703 – John Wesley, English priest and founder of Methodism (died 1791)
• 1712 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (died 1778)
• 1824 – Paul Broca, French physician, anatomist and anthropologist (died 1880)
• 1867 – Lightner Witmer, American psychologist (died 1956)
• 1867 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian playwright and novelist (died 1936)
• 1873 – Alexis Carrel, French physiologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine (died in 1944)
• 1875 – Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (died 1941)
• 1883 – Pierre Laval, French politician (died 1945)
• 1889 – Abbas al-Akkad, Egyptian journalist, poet and literary critic (died 1964)
• 1891 – Carl Spaatz, American aviator general and first US Air Force Chief of Staff (died 1974)
• 1892 – Edward Halett Carr, English historian and author (died 1982)
• 1906 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German-American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (died 1972)
• 1912 – Sherwood Rowland, American professor of chemistry (d. 1927)
• 1926 – Mel Brooks, American actor, writer and director
• 1928 – John Stewart Bell, Northern Irish physicist (died 1990)
• 1928 – Hans Blix, former Swedish president of the International Atomic Energy Agency
• 1932 – Pat Morita, Japanese-American film actor (died 2005)
• 1934 – Georges Wolinsky, French cartoonist and cartoonist (died 2015)
• 1936 – Belgin Doruk, Turkish film actress (died 1995)
• 1940 – Mohammed Yunus, Bangladeshi banker and professor of economics and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1941 – David Lloyd Johnston, Canadian academic writer
• 1943 – Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist
• 1944 – Sohrab Shahid Sales, Iranian director (died 1998)
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• 1946 – Bruce Davison, American actor and director
• 1946 – Gilda Radner, American actress (died 1989)
• 1948 – Kathy Bates, American actress and Oscar winner
• 1952 – Enis Batur, Turkish poet
• 1952 – Jean-Christophe Rufin, French writer
• 1955 – Civan Canova, Turkish theater, cinema, TV series actor and playwright
• 1955 – Thomas Hampson, Grammy Award-winning American baritone
• 1957 – Georgi Parvanov, Bulgarian politician and Prime Minister
• 1961 – Kerem Görsev, Turkish musician
• 1964 – Sabrina Ferilli, Italian theater and film actress and television presenter
• 1966 – John Cusack, American actor
• 1966 – Åženay Gürler, Turkish theater and cinema actor
• 1966 – Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress
• 1969 – Stéphane Chapuisat, former Swiss footballer
• 1969 – Ayelet Zurer, Israeli actress
• 1971 – Fabien Barthez, retired French goalkeeper
• 1971 – No ID, American record producer
• 1971 – Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX Space Company
• 1974 – YiÄŸit Arı, Turkish theater actor
• 1976 – Hans Sarpei, Ghanaian football player
• 1976 – Ali Ä°hsan Varol, Turkish presenter
• 1977 – Harun Tekin, Turkish musician and lead singer of Mor ve Ötesi
• 1980 – Maurizio Domizzi, Italian footballer
• 1981 – Mara Santangelo, Italian tennis player
• 1983 – Dorge Kouemaha, Cameroonian footballer
• 1984 – Andriy Pyatov, Ukrainian national goalkeeper
• 1987 – Karin Knapp, Italian tennis player
• 1991 – Kevin De Bruyne, Belgian international footballer
• 1991 – Seohyun, South Korean actress, singer and dancer
• 1992 – Oscar Hiljemark, Swedish national football player
• 1992 – Elaine Thompson, Jamaican Olympic champion athlete
• 1993 – Bradley Beal, American professional basketball player
• 1994 – Anish Giri, Russian-Dutch chess player
• 1995 – Jason Denayer, Belgian footballer

Armed

• 548 – Theodora, Byzantine empress and wife of Justinian I (born in 500)
• 767 – Paul I (Saint Paul), religious leader of the Catholic Church (Pope) (born in 700)
• 1385 – IV. Andronikos, Byzantine emperor (born in 1348)
• 1389 – Murad I, 3rd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (born in 1326)
• 1813 – Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Hanoverian general and first Prussian chief of staff (born 1755)
• 1836 – James Madison, 4th President of the United States (born 1751)
• 1885 – Hacı Arif Bey, Turkish lyricist and musician (born 1831)
• 1889 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (born 1818)
• 1892 – Harry Atkinson, New Zealand politician (born 1831)
• 1913 – Campos Sales, Brazilian lawyer, coffee producer and politician (born 1841)
• 1914 – François-Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (born in 1863)
• 1914 – Sophie Chotek, wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (assassinated) (born in 1868)
• 1936 – Alexander Berkman, American author, radical anarchist and activist (born 1870)
• 1937 – Max Adler, Austrian Marxist lawyer, sociologist and socialist theorist (born 1873)
• 1940 – Italo Balbo, Italian fascist (born 1896)
• 1942 – Yanka Kupala, Belarusian poet and writer (born 1882)
• 1944 – Friedrich Dollmann, General of Nazi Germany (born 1882)
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• 1966 – Fuad Köprülü, Turkish history professor and Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1890)
• 1971 – Franz Stangl, II. Commander of Sobibor extermination camp and Treblinka extermination camp in Nazi Germany in WWII (born 1908)
• 1974 – Frank Sutton, American actor (born 1923)
• 1976 – Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and filmmaker (born 1928)
• 1981 – Mohammed Beheshti, Iranian scholar and religious author, co-founder of the Islamic Revolution (born 1928)
• 1989 – Joris Ivens, Dutch documentary filmmaker and director (born 1898)
• 1992 – Mikhail Tal, Soviet world chess champion (born 1936)
• 2000 – Cinuçen Tanrıkorur, Turkish musician (born in 1938)
• 2007 – ErdoÄŸan TünaÅŸ, Turkish screenwriter, writer and filmmaker (born 1935)
• 2007 – Zehra Bilir, Turkish singer (born in 1913)
• 2007 – Kiichi Miyazawa, Japanese politician who served as the 1991st Prime Minister of Japan from 1993 to 1949 (born 1919)
• 2008 – Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakh model and model of Russian origin (born 1987)
• 2009 – Billy Mays, American comedian, actor and voice actor (born 1958)
• 2011 – Paul BaÄŸdatlıyan, singer, musician and composer of Armenian origin (born 1953)
• 2013 – Silvi Vrait, Estonian singer (born 1951)
• 2014 – Meshach Taylor, American actress (born 1947)
• 2015 – Jack Carter, American comedian, actor and presenter (born 1923)
• 2016 – Maurice Cazeneuve, French actor, director and screenwriter (born in 1923)
• 2016 – Scotty Moore, American guitarist (born 1931)
• 2016 – Fabiane Niclotti in 2004 Miss Brazil old model selected as the most beautiful (born 1984)
• 2018 – Denis Akiyama, Japanese-Canadian actor and comedian (born 1952)
• 2018 – Harlan Ellison, award-winning American author and screenwriter of short stories, novels, phone calls, essays, and reviews (born 1934)
• 2018 – Domenico Losurdo, Italian Marxist philosopher and historian (born 1941)
• 2018 – Christine Nöstlinger, Austrian author of books for children and adolescents (born 1936)
• 2018 – Åžarık Tara, Turkish civil engineer and businessman (born 1930)
• 2019 – Paul Benjamin, American actor (born in 1938)
• 2019 – Şükrü Birant, former Turkish national football player (born 1944)
• 2019 – Lisa Martinek, German actress (born 1972)
• 2020 – Nasir Ajanah, Nigerian judge (born 1956)
• 2020 – Marián ÄŒiÅ¡ovský, Slovak national football player (born 1979)
• 2020 – Mimi Soltysik, American socialist politician and political activist (born 1974)
• 2020 – Yu Lan, Chinese theater, film and television actor (born 1921)