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June 28
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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.
[edit] Events
- 1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
- 1243 - Innocent IV becomes Pope.
- 1389 - Ottoman and Serbian armies fight the bloody battle of 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.
- 1960 - University of Novi Sad was founded.
- 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.
- 1992 - The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
- 1997 - Boxer Mike Tyson bites the ear of Evander Hollyfield during a boxing match.
- 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.
- 2006 - After a nineteen year theatrical hiatus, the original superhero is back on the big screen with Superman Returns.
[edit] 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)
- 1875 - Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (d. 1941)
- 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)
- 1933 - Gusty Spence, Northern Irish loyalist politician
- 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)
- 1940 - Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi Banker, Economist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- 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 and record producer
- 1954 - Alice Krige, South African actress
- 1955 - Thomas Hampson, American baritone
- 1957 - Georgi Parvanov, President of Bulgaria
- 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
- 1969 - David Allen Lambert, American genealogist and author
- 1970 - Mushtaq Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer
- 1970 - Steve Burton, American actor
- 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
- 1974 - Cindy Hall, American game show contestant
- 1976 - Shinobu Asagoe, Japanese tennis player
- 1976 - Seth Wescott, American snowboarder
- 1979 - Ha Ji-won, South Korean actress and singer
- 1979 - Randy McMichael, American football player
- 1986 - Kellie Pickler, American singer
- 1986 - Shadia Simmons, Canadian actress
- 1988 - Keshia Chanté, Canadian singer
- 1994 - Madeline Duggan, English actress
[edit] Deaths
- 548 - Theodora, Byzantine empress
- 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)
- 1962 - Cy Morgan, baseball player (b. 1878)
- 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)
- 2000 - Jane Birdwood, British anti-Semitic activist (b. 1913)
- 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)
[edit] Holidays and observances
[edit] Liturgical Feasts
- Vidovdan, Orthodox religious holiday commemorating St. Vitus
Catholic saints:
- Saint Benignus
- Saint Irenaeus of Lyon
- Saint Paulus I (died 767)
- Saint Marcella
[edit] External links
June 27 - June 29 - May 28 - July 28 -- listing of all days
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