June 28

(Some entries on this page have been duplicated on August 1. See Talk:August_1. The correct dates for such events need to be determined.)

June 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 186 days remaining.

Events

• 1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
• 1243 - Innocent IV becomes pope.
• 1389 - Ottoman forces crush the armies of Christian Europe 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
• 1859 - First dog show is held in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England.
• 1880 - Ned Kelly the Australian bushranger captured at Glenrowan.
• 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 killed in Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist young man: Gavrilo Princip , 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 metric ton meteorite struck the earth in a empty field near Chicora, Pennsylvania
• 1940 - Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
• 1950 - Seoul is captured by troops from North Korea.
• 1956 - Anti-communist demonstrations in Poznan. Also called Poznański czerwiec (June of Poznan).
• 1960 - US-owned oil refineries in Cuba confiscated and nationalised.
• 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.
• 1988 - The worst confined-space industrial accident in U.S. history occurs at a metal-plating plant in Auburn, Indiana, killing five.
• 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.
• 1997 - Boxer Mike Tyson is disqualified from WBA title re-match, for biting off part of the ear of his opponent Evander Holyfield.
• 2004 - Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism
  • Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
• 2005 - Canada's lower house paves the way for same-sex marriage to be legalized there, and make it the third country to do so.
  • AMD files suit against Intel corporation, charging monopolization and antitrust violations.

Births

1243 to 1899

• 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 Pierre Broca, French physician 9d. 1880)
• 1831 - Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (d. 1907)
• 1867 - Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)
• 1891 - Carl Panzram, American serial killer (d. 1930)

1900 to 1999

• 1902 - Richard Rodgers, American composer (d. 1979)
• 1906 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
• 1913 - Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker
• 1914 - Lester Flatt, American musician (d. 1979)
• 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
• 1936 - Chuck Howley, American football player
• 1938 - Moy Yat, Chinese martial artist (d. 2001)
• 1943 - Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1946 - Gilda Radner, American actress (d. 1989)
• 1947 - Mark Helprin, American writer
• 1948 - Kathy Bates, American actress
• 1952 - Pietro Mennea, Italian athlete
• 1954 - Alice Krige, South African actress
• 1960 - John Elway, American football player
• 1964 - Mark Grace, baseball player
• 1966 - John Cusack, American actor
• 1967 - Kenneth Steven Becker, American taxpayer
• 1968 - Adam Woodyatt, British actor
• 1969 - Danielle Brisebois, American actress
• 1970 - Mushtaq Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer
• 1971 - Kenny Cunningham, Irish footballer
• 1972 - Jon Heidenreich, American professional wrestler
• 1973 - Adrian Annus, Hungarian athlete
• 1976 - Shinobu Asagoe, Japanese tennis player
• 1979 - Randy McMichael, American football player
• 1989 - Elias Borton, American Pro Thumbwrestler

Deaths

767 to 1899

• 767 - Pope Paul I
• 1175 - Andrei Bogolyubsky, Russian prince
• 1194 - Emperor Xiaozong of China (b. 1127)
• 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)

1900 to 1999

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 1997 - Mrs. Miller, American singer (b. 1907)

2000 onwards

• 2001 - Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (b. 1902)
  • Joan Sims, English actress (b. 1930)
• 2003 - Wim Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
• 2004 - Anthony Buckeridge, English author (b. 1912)

Holidays and observances

• Feast of St Irenaeus of Lyons
• Vidovdan, Orthodox religious holiday.
• One of the TWO dates made up of only perfect numbers (6 and 28; also June 6th [6 and 6]).

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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