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.
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1098 - Fighters of the
First Crusade defeat
Kerbogha of
Mosul.
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1243 -
Innocent IV becomes
Pope.
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1389 -
Ottoman forces crush the
Serbian armies in
Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe (see
Vidovdan).
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1519 -
Charles V elected emperor of the
Holy Roman Empire.
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1635 -
Guadeloupe becomes a
French colony.
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1651 -
Battle of Beresteczko between
Poles and
Ukrainians, the biggest battle in the
17th century, starts.
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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.
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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.
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1838 - The
coronation of
Victoria of the United Kingdom.
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1855 - The
Sigma Chi Fraternity was founded at
Miami University*
1859 - First
conformation dog show is held in
Newcastle-on-Tyne,
England.
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1880 -
Ned Kelly the Australian bushranger captured at
Glenrowan.
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1881 - Secret treaty between
Austria and
Serbia.
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1886 - First scheduled Canadian transcontinental passenger train departs from
Montreal,
Quebec for
Port Moody, British Columbia.
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1887 -
Minot, North Dakota incorporated as a city.
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1894 -
Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
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1895 -
El Salvador,
Honduras and
Nicaragua form the
Central American Union.
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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.
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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.
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1922 - The
Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in
Dublin by
Free State forces.
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1936 - The Japanese puppet state of
Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
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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.
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1948 -
Cominform circulates the "Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia"
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1950 -
Seoul is captured by troops from
North Korea.
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1956 - Anti-communist demonstrations in
Poznań. Also called
Poznański czerwiec (
June of Poznań).
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1960 -
Cuba confiscates and nationalizes U.S.-owned oil refineries.
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1964 -
Malcom X forms the
Organization of Afro-American Unity.
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1967 -
Israel annexes East
Jerusalem.
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1969 -
Stonewall riots in
New York city mark the beginning of the modern
gay rights era.
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1978 - The
United States Supreme Court, in
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
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1983 - The
Mianus River Bridge collapses over the
Mianus River in
Connecticut, killing 3 drivers in their vehicles.
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1988 - The worst confined-space industrial accident in U.S. history occurs at a metal-plating plant in
Auburn, Indiana, killing five.
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1989 -
Slobodan Milošević's delivers the Kosovo Polje speech
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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.
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1992 - The
Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
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2001 - U.S. Appeals Court overturns a lower court's order to breakup
Microsoft in an antitrust case.
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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.
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2006 - The
Republic of Montenegro was admitted as the 192nd
Member of the United Nations by
General Assembly resolution 60/264.tes|Member of the United Nations]] by
General Assembly resolution 60/264.
*2006 - After a nineteen year theatrical hiatus, the original superhero is back on the big screen with
Superman Returns.
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1243 -
Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (d.
1304)
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1476 -
Pope Paul IV (d.
1559)
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1490 -
Albert of Mainz, bishop and elector of Mainz (d.
1545)
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1491 - King
Henry VIII of England (d.
1547)
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1503 -
Giovanni della Casa, Italian poet (d.
1556)
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1547 (baptism) -
Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (d.
1599)
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1577 -
Peter Paul Rubens, Belgian painter (d.
1640)
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1703 -
John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (d.
1791)
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1712 -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (d.
1778)
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1719 -
Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (d.
1785)
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1806 -
Napoleon Coste, French guitarist and composer (d.
1883)
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1824 -
Paul Broca, French physician (d.
1880)
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1831 -
Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (d.
1907)
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1867 -
Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1936)
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1873 -
Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1944)
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1883 -
Pierre Laval,
Prime Minister of France (d.
1945)
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1891 -
Carl Panzram, American serial killer (d.
1930)
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1902 -
Richard Rodgers, American composer (d.
1979)
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1906 -
Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1972)
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1912 -
Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor (d.
1996)
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1913 -
Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker
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1914 -
Aribert Heim, Austrian physician
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1921 -
P. V. Narasimha Rao,
Prime Minister of India (d.
2004)
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1926 -
Mel Brooks, American filmmaker
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1927 -
Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
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1930 -
Itamar Franco,
President of Brazil*
1932 -
Pat Morita, American actor (d.
2005)
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1934 -
Carl Levin, United States Senator
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1935 -
John Inman, British actor
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1936 -
Chuck Howley, American football player
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1937 -
George Knudson, Canadian professional golfer (d.
1989)
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1938 -
Moy Yat, Chinese martial artist (d.
2001)
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1941 -
Al Downing,
Major League baseball player
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1943 -
Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
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1945 -
David Knights, bass guitarist (
Procul Harum)
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1946 -
Gilda Radner, American actress (d.
1989)
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1947 -
Mark Helprin, American writer
* 1947 -
Anny Duperey, French film and television actress
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1948 -
Kathy Bates, American actress
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1952 -
Pietro Mennea, Italian athlete
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1952 -
David Miner, Musician & Record producer
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1954 -
Alice Krige, South African actress
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1955 -
Thomas Hampson, American baritone
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1960 -
John Elway, American football player
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1964 -
Mark Grace, baseball player
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1966 -
John Cusack, American actor
* 1966 -
Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress
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1968 -
Adam Woodyatt, British actor
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1969 -
Danielle Brisebois, American actress
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1970 -
Mushtaq Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer
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1971 -
Fabien Barthez, French footballer
* 1971 -
Kenny Cunningham, Irish footballer
* 1971 -
Norika Fujiwara, Japanese actress and television-personality
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1972 -
Jon Heidenreich, American professional wrestler
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1972 -
Rachel Dax - British actor
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1973 -
Adrian Annus, Hungarian athlete
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1976 -
Shinobu Asagoe, Japanese tennis player
* 1976 -
Seth Wescott, American snowboarder
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1979 -
Randy McMichael, American football player
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1986 -
Kellie Pickler,
American Idol finalist
* 1986 -
Shadia Simmons, Canadian actress
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767 -
Pope Paul I*
1175 -
Andrei Bogolyubsky, Russian prince
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1194 -
Emperor Xiaozong of Song China (b.
1127)
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1385 -
Andronicus IV Palaeologus,
Eastern Roman Emperor (b.
1348)
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1389 - Prince
Lazar Hrebeljanović of Serbia (b.
1329)
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1586 -
Primož Trubar, Slovenian protestant reformer (b.
1508)
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1598 -
Abraham Ortelius, Flemish-born cartographer (b.
1527)
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1716 -
George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (b.
1665)
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1813 -
Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general (b.
1755)
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1834 -
Joseph Bové, Russian architect (b.
1784)
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1836 -
James Madison,
President of the United States (b.
1751)
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1881 -
Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman (b.
1798)
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1889 -
Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (b.
1818)
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1913 -
Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, President of Brazil (b.
1841)
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1914 -
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b.
1863)
* 1914 - Countess
Sophie Chotek, wife of
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b.
1868)
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1915 -
Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (b.
1877)
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1916 -
Ştefan Luchian, Romanian painter (b.
1868)
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1922 -
Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (b.
1885)
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1929 -
Edward Carpenter, English poet (b.
1844)
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1960 -
Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (b.
1898)
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1962 -
Mickey Cochrane, baseball player (b.
1903)
* 1962 -
Cy Morgan, baseball player (b.
1878)
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1965 -
Red Nichols, American musician (b.
1905)
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1974 -
Frank Sutton, American actor (b.
1923)
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1975 -
Rod Serling, American television scriptwriter (b.
1924)
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1976 -
Stanley Baker, British actor and producer (b.
1927)
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1978 -
Clifford Dupont, First
President of Rhodesia (b.
1905)
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1980 -
José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (b.
1895)
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1981 -
Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist (b.
1958)
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1989 -
Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker (b.
1898)
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1992 -
Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (b.
1936)
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1993 -
GG Allin, American punk rock singer (b.
1956)
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1997 -
Mrs. Miller, American singer (b.
1907)
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2001 -
Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (b.
1902)
* 2001 -
Joan Sims, English actress (b.
1930)
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2003 -
Wim Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete (b.
1923)
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2004 -
Anthony Buckeridge, English author (b.
1912)
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2005 -
Brenda Howard, American LGBT activist (b.
1946)
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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)
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National Handshake Day in ??
Liturgical Feasts
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Vidovdan,
Orthodox religious holiday commemorating
St. VitusCatholic saints:
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Saint Benignus*
Saint Irenaeus of Lyon*
Saint Paulus I (died 767)
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Saint Marcella*
BBC: On This Day*
The New York Times: On This Day*
On This Day in CanadaJune 27 -
June 29 -
May 28 -
July 28 --
listing of all days
