June 28
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June 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 186 days remaining until the end of the year. This is the only date in the Gregorian calendar where the day and the month (28 and 6) are different Perfect numbers.
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Events [change]
- 1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
- 1243 – Innocent IV becomes pope.
- 1389 – Ottoman Empire defeats Christian Europe army in Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe (see Vidovdan).
- 1461 – King Edward IV of England is crowned.
- 1519 – Charles V elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1575 – The Battle of Nagashino takes place in Japan.
- 1635 – Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
- 1651 – Battle of Beresteczko between Poles and Ukrainians, the biggest battle in the 17th century, starts.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Sullivsn's Island becomes the first decisive US victory of the war, over Great Britain.
- 1811 – Napoleonic Wars: French troops storm the city of Tarragona, Spain and carry out a massacre on citizens who offer strong resistance.
- 1838 – In the United Kingdom, Queen Victoria is officially crowned.
- 1859 – The first dog show is held in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
- 1880 – Ned Kelly, the Australian bushranger, is captured at Glenrowan.
- 1886 – The first passenger train of the Canadian Pacific Railway leaves Montreal, Quebec.
- 1887 – Minot, North Dakota is incorporated as a city.
- 1894 – Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
- 1895 – El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Central American Union.
- 1904 – The Danish ship SS Norge runs aground and sinks off Rockall in the North Atlantic Ocean; 625 people are killed.
- 1914 – Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophia are killed by a Serbian nationalist, the casus belli of World War I.
- 1919 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending World War I with Germany.
- 1936 – The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
- 1938 – A 450-tonne meteorite struck the earth in an empty field near Chicora, Pennsylvania
- 1940 – Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
- 1948 – A magnitude 7.3 earthquake in Fukui, Japan, kills 5,390 people.
- 1950 – Seoul is captured by troops from North Korea.
- 1960 – US-owned oil refineries in Cuba confiscated and nationalised.
- 1960 – A gas explosion in a coal mine in Monmouthshire, Wales, kills 37 miners.
- 1967 – Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
- 1969 – Stonewall riots in New York city mark the beginning of the modern gay rights era.
- 1978 – The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke 438 US 265 1978, bars quota systems in college admissions but affirms constitutionality of programs giving advantage to minorities.
- 1988 – Four workers are asphyxiated at a metal-plating plant in Auburn, Indiana, in the worst confined-space industrial accident in U.S. history. A fifth victim dies two days later.
- 1990 – Paperback Software, a company founded by Adam Osborne, found guilty by a U.S. court of copyright violation for copying the appearance and menu system of Lotus 1-2-3 in its competing spreadsheet program.
- 1992 – The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
- 1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan, killing 7 people and injuring 660.
- 1996 – The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
- 1997 – Boxer Mike Tyson is disqualified for biting off part of the ear of his opponent Evander Holyfield.
- 2004 – Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia join the ERM II
- 2004 – Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
- 2006 – Montenegro becomes a member of the UN.
- 2009 – A political crisis lasting several months begins in Honduras, as President Manuel Zelaya is overthrown by Roberto Micheletti.
Births [change]
- 1170 – King Valdemar II of Denmark (d. 1241)
- 1243 – Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (d. 1304)
- 1476 – Pope Paul IV (d. 1559)
- 1490 – Albert of Mainz, bishop and elector of Mainz (d. 1545)
- 1491 – Henry VIII, King of England (d. 1547)
- 1577 – Peter Paul Rubens, German painter (d. 1640)
- 1703 – John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (d. 1791)
- 1712 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (d. 1778)
- 1734 – Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier, French organist and composer (d. 1778)
- 1806 – Napoleon Coste, French guitarist and composer (d. 1883)
- 1807 – Anton Philipp Reclam, German publisher (d. 1895)
- 1824 – Paul Broca, French physician (d. 1880)
- 1831 – Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (d. 1907)
- 1852 – Charles Cruft, English businessman (d. 1938)
- 1867 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist and narrator, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1936)
- 1873 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, won the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1944)
- 1876 – Robert Guerin, French sports official, President of FIFA (d. 1952)
- 1883 – Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
- 1891 – Carl Panzram, American serial killer (d. 1930)
- 1902 – Richard Rodgers, American composer (d. 1979)
- 1906 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German-American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1972)
- 1912 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsaecker, German physicist and philosopher (d. 2007)
- 1913 – Franz Antel, Austrian movie maker (d. 2007)
- 1914 – Lester Flatt, bluegrass musician (d. 1979)
- 1915 – David Honeyboy Edwards, American blues musician (d. 2011)
- 1921 – P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India, 1991 – 1996 (d. 2004)
- 1923 – Gaye Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2010)
- 1925 – Giselher Klebe, German composer (d. 2009)
- 1926 – Mel Brooks, American movie maker
- 1927 – Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist (d. 2012)
- 1928 – Hans Blix, Swedish politician and diplomat
- 1930 – Itamar Franco, former President of Brazil (d. 2011)
- 1932 – Pat Morita, American actor (d. 2005)
- 1934 – Carl Levin, United States senator
- 1936 – Chuck Howley, American football player
- 1938 – Moy Yat, martial artist
- 1938 – Leon Panetta, American politician
- 1940 – Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi banker and economist, Nobel Peace Prize winner
- 1941 – David Lloyd Johnston, Governor-General of Canada
- 1943 – Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1946 – Gilda Radner, American actress and comedienne (d. 1989)
- 1947 – Mark Helprin, American writer
- 1947 – Clarissa Dickson Wright, English chef and cookery writer
- 1948 – Kathy Bates, American actress
- 1948 – Clarence Thomas, United States Supreme Court justice
- 1952 – Pietro Mennea, Italian athlete
- 1954 – Alice Krige, actress
- 1957 – Georgi Parvanov, former President of Bulgaria
- 1960 – John Elway, American football player
- 1963 – Charlie Clouser, American musician (Nine Inch Nails)
- 1964 – Mark Grace, American Major League Baseball player
- 1966 – John Cusack, American actor
- 1967 – Lars Riedel, German athlete
- 1968 – Adam Woodyatt, English actor
- 1971 – Fabien Barthez, French footballer
- 1971 – Lorenzo Amoruso, Italian footballer
- 1972 – Alessandro Nivola, American actor
- 1972 – Jon Heidenreich, American professional wrestler
- 1973 – Adrian Annus, hammer thrower
- 1977 – Mark Stoermer, American bass player (The Killers)
- 1978 – Simon Larose, tennis player
- 1979 – Randy McMichael, American football player
- 1985 – Phil Bardsley, British footballer
- 1990 – Jasmine Richards, Canadian actress
- 1994 – Prince Hussein bin Al Abdullah II, Prince of Jordan
- 1995 – Kare Hedebrandt, Swedish actor
Deaths [change]
- 767 – Pope Paul I (b. 700)
- 928 – Louis the Blind, King of Provence and Holy Roman Emperor (b. 880)
- 1189 – Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony (b. 1156)
- 1194 – Emperor Xiaozong of Song of China (b. 1127)
- 1385 – Andronikos IV Palaiologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1348)
- 1598 – Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer (maker of maps) (b. 1527)
- 1836 – James Madison, 4th President of the United States (b. 1751)
- 1880 – Dan Kelly, Steve Hart and Joe Byrne, Australian bushrangers, killed at Glenrowan, Victoria.
- 1889 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer and Women's Rights activist (b. 1818)
- 1892 – Harry Atkinson, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1831)
- 1892 – Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (b. 1810)
- 1913 – Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, President of Brazil (b. 1811)
- 1914 – Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassination) (b. 1863)
- 1914 – Archduchess Sophie Chotek, wife of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (b. 1868)
- 1935 – Patriarch Meletius IV of Constantinople (b. 1871)
- 1960 – Jake Swirbul, co-founder of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation
- 1962 – Mickey Cochrane, American Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1903)
- 1965 – Red Nichols, American jazz musician (b. 1905)
- 1971 – Franz Stangl, Nazi Concentration camp commandant (b. 1908)
- 1974 – Frank Sutton, American actor (b. 1923)
- 1975 – Rod Serling, American scriptwriter, host of The Twilight Zone (b. 1924)
- 1976 – Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and movie producer (b. 1927)
- 1978 – Clifford Dupont, President of Rhodesia (b. 1905)
- 1980 – José Iturbi, Spanish musician, conductor (b. 1895)
- 1981 – Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist (b. 1958)
- 1989 – Joris Ivens, movie maker (b. 1898)
- 1992 – Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (b. 1936)
- 1993 – GG Allin, American punk rock singer (b. 1956)
- 1997 – Mrs. Miller, singer (b. 1907)
- 2001 – Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (b. 1902)
- 2001 – Joan Sims, actress (b. 1930)
- 2003 – Wim Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
- 2004 – Anthony Buckeridge, author (b. 1912)
- 2007 – Kiichi Miyazawa, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919)
- 2008 – Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (b. 1987)
- 2009 – Billy Mays, American pitchman (b. 1958)
- 2010 – Robert Byrd, American politician, longest-serving United States Senator (b. 1917)
Observances [change]
- Soviet Occupation Day in Moldova
- Observed as Tau Day by opponents of Pi (Mathematics)
