28th June

EVENTS:

• 1894 – Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
• 1896 – 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.
• 1926 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
• 1964 – Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
• 1981 – A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of Islamic Republic Party.
• 1992 – The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
• 1996 – The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
• 2016 – A terrorist attack in Turkey’s Istanbul Atatürk Airport kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others.

BIRTHS:

• 1867 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)
• 1873 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944)
• 1906 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
• 1921 – P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)
• 1927 – Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
• 1940 – Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1941 – Ann Leslie, Indian-English journalist
• 1943 – Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1955 – Eric Gates, English footballer
• 1970 – Mushtaq Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer and coach
• 1979 – Randy McMichael, American football player
• 1985 – Phil Bardsley, English footballer
• 1989 – Nicole Rottmann, Austrian tennis player

HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:

• Constitution Day (Ukraine)
• Family Day (Vietnam)
• Soviet Occupation Day (Moldova)