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On This Day, June 28
- 2016: A terrorist attack in Turkey's Istanbul Atatürk Airport kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others.
- 2012: The United States Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2001: Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.