June 28

is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 186 days remaining.

In common years it is always in ISO week 26.

This date is the only date each year where both the month and day are Perfect numbers.

Events

1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
1243 - Innocent IV becomes pope.
1389 - Ottoman forces crush the Serbian armies in Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe (see Vidovdan).
1519 - Charles V elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1635 - Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
1651 - Battle of Beresteczko between Poles and Ukrainians, the biggest battle in the 17th century, starts.
1763 - Earthquake in Komarom, Hungary
1776 - Thomas Hinkey was hanged for mutiny, sedition, and treachery for plotting to kidnap George Washington. Hinkey was one of his bodyguards.
1778 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Monmouth fought between the American Continental Army under George Washington and the British Army led by Sir Henry Clinton.
1838 - The coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
1855 - The Sigma Chi Fraternity was founded at Miami University
1859 - First conformation dog show is held in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England.
1880 - Ned Kelly the Australian bushranger captured at Glenrowan.
1881 - Secret treaty between Austria and Serbia.
1886 - First scheduled Canadian transcontinental passenger train departs from Montreal, Quebec for Port Moody, British Columbia.
1887 - Minot, North Dakota incorporated as a city.
1894 - Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
1895 - El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Central American Union.
1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophia are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip , the casus belli of World War I.
1919 - The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, formally ending World War I between Britain, France, Italy, the United States and allies on the one side and Germany and Austria Hungary on the other side.
1922 - The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
1936 - The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
1938 - A 450 metric ton meteorite struck the earth in an empty field near Chicora, Pennsylvania
1940 - Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
1948 - Cominform circulates the "Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia"
1950 - Seoul is captured by troops from North Korea.
1956 - Anti-communist demonstrations in Poznań. Also called Poznański czerwiec (June of Poznań).
1960 - Cuba confiscates and nationalizes U.S.-owned oil refineries.
1964 - Malcom X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
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 bars quota systems in college admissions.
1983 - The Mianus River Bridge collapses over the Mianus River in Connecticut, killing 3 drivers in their vehicles.
1988 - The worst confined-space industrial accident in U.S. history occurs at a metal-plating plant in Auburn, Indiana, killing five.
1989 - Slobodan Milošević's delivers the Kosovo Polje speech
1990 - Paperback Software 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.
2001 - U.S. Appeals Court overturns a lower court's order to breakup Microsoft in an antitrust case.
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.
2004 - Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism
2005 - Canada becomes the third country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.
2005 - A final design for Manhattan's Freedom Tower is formally unveiled.
2006 - The Republic of Montenegro was admitted as the 192nd Member of the United Nations by General Assembly resolution 60/264.

Births

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 - King Henry VIII of England (d. 1547)
1503 - Giovanni della Casa, Italian poet (d. 1556)
1547 (baptism) - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (d. 1599)
1577 - Peter Paul Rubens, Belgian painter (d. 1640)
1703 - John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (d. 1791)
1712 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (d. 1778)
1719 - Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (d. 1785)
1806 - Napoleon Coste, French guitarist and composer (d. 1883)
1824 - Paul Broca, French physician (d. 1880)
1831 - Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (d. 1907)
1867 - Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)
1873 - Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1944)
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 physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
1912 - Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor (d. 1996)
1913 - Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker
1914 - Aribert Heim, Austrian physician
1921 - P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)
1926 - Mel Brooks, American filmmaker
1927 - Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1930 - Itamar Franco, President of Brazil
1932 - Pat Morita, American actor (d. 2005)
1934 - Carl Levin, United States Senator
1935 - John Inman, British actor
1936 - Chuck Howley, American football player
1937 - George Knudson, Canadian professional golfer (d. 1989)
1938 - Moy Yat, Chinese martial artist (d. 2001)
1941 - Al Downing, Major League baseball player
1943 - Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1945 - David Knights, bass guitarist (Procul Harum)
1946 - Gilda Radner, American actress (d. 1989)
1947 - Mark Helprin, American writer
1947 - Anny Duperey, French film and television actress
1948 - Kathy Bates, American actress
1952 - Pietro Mennea, Italian athlete
1952 - David Miner, Musician & Record producer
1954 - Alice Krige, South African actress
1955 - Thomas Hampson, American baritone
1960 - John Elway, American football player
1964 - Mark Grace, baseball player
1966 - John Cusack, American actor
1966 - Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress
1968 - Adam Woodyatt, British actor
1969 - Danielle Brisebois, American actress
1970 - Mushtaq Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer
1971 - Fabien Barthez, French footballer
1971 - Kenny Cunningham, Irish footballer
1971 - Norika Fujiwara, Japanese actress and television-personality
1972 - Jon Heidenreich, American professional wrestler
1972 - Rachel Dax - British actor
1973 - Adrian Annus, Hungarian athlete
1976 - Shinobu Asagoe, Japanese tennis player
1976 - Seth Wescott, American snowboarder
1979 - Randy McMichael, American football player

Deaths

767 - Pope Paul I
1175 - Andrei Bogolyubsky, Russian prince
1194 - Emperor Xiaozong of Song China (b. 1127)
1385 - Andronicus IV Palaeologus, Eastern Roman Emperor (b. 1348)
1389 - Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović of Serbia (b. 1329)
1586 - Primož Trubar, Slovenian protestant reformer (b. 1508)
1598 - Abraham Ortelius, Flemish-born cartographer (b. 1527)
1716 - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (b. 1665)
1813 - Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general (b. 1755)
1834 - Joseph Bové, Russian architect (b. 1784)
1836 - James Madison, President of the United States (b. 1751)
1881 - Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman (b. 1798)
1889 - Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (b. 1818)
1913 - Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, President of Brazil (b. 1841)
1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1863)
1914 - Countess Sophie Chotek, wife of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1868)
1915 - Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
1916 - Ştefan Luchian, Romanian painter (b. 1868)
1922 - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (b. 1885)
1929 - Edward Carpenter, English poet (b. 1844)
1960 - Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1898)
1962 - Mickey Cochrane, baseball player (b. 1903)
1965 - Red Nichols, American musician (b. 1905)
1974 - Frank Sutton, American actor (b. 1923)
1975 - Rod Serling, American television scriptwriter (b. 1924)
1976 - Stanley Baker, British actor and producer (b. 1927)
1978 - Clifford Dupont, First President of Rhodesia (b. 1905)
1980 - José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1895)
1981 - Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist (b. 1958)
1989 - Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1898)
1992 - Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (b. 1936)
1993 - GG Allin, American punk rock singer (b. 1956)
1997 - Mrs. Miller, American singer (b. 1907)
2001 - Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (b. 1902)
2001 - Joan Sims, English actress (b. 1930)
2003 - Wim Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
2004 - Anthony Buckeridge, English author (b. 1912)
2005 - Brenda Howard, American LGBT activist (b. 1946)
2006 - George Unwin, British fighter ace WWII (b.1913)
2006 - Jim Baen, American science fiction publisher and editor (b. 1943)
2006 - Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, English barrister, politician and author. (b.1919)

Holidays and observances

Feast of St Irenaeus of Lyon
Vidovdan, Orthodox religious holiday commemorating St. Vitus
National Handshake Day

External links

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Events

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