What happened on June 28? There are more than 295 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About June 28
June 28 is the 180th day of the year 2024. There are 186 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday. This day falls under the 26th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Cleveland, Ohio 44197 sunrise occured at 05:53 AM and sunset occured at 09:06 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Cancer. The modern birthstone for this month is Pearl while the mystical birthstone is Moonstone.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 215 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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June 28: A Day In History
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 different perfect numbers, June 6 being the only date where the month and day are the same perfect number.
Historical Events For June 28
- 1098Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
- 1389Battle of Kosovo took place, between Serbian and Ottoman army.
- 1461Edward IV is crowned King of England.
- 1519Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1635Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
- 1651The Battle of Beresteczko between Poland and Ukraine starts.
- 1763A massive earthquake occurs on the same day in Komárom in Hungary, in Komárno in Slovakia and in Zsámbék in Hungary.
- 1776American Revolutionary War: Fort Moultrie is attacked during the Battle of Sullivan’s Island; this event is commemorated in Carolina Day.
- 1776American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
- 1778American Revolutionary War: Battle of Monmouth is fought between the American Continental Army under George Washington and the British Army led by Sir Henry Clinton.
- 1807Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelock lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.
- 1838Coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
- 1841The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier
- 1846The saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax in Paris, France.
- 1859The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
- 1865The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
- 1880The Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
- 1881Secret treaty between Austria and Serbia.
- 1882The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
- 1883In Milan in Italy inaugurated the first central European electricity power station.
- 1894Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
- 1895Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis claim to Barony of Arizona is “wholly fictitious and fraudulent”.
- 1895El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Greater Republic of Central America.
- 1896An explosion in the Newton Coal Company’s Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston City, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
- 1902The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
- 1904The SS Norge runs aground and sinks
- 1914Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip, the casus belli of World War I.
- 1919The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, formally ending World War I between Belgium, Britain, France, Italy, the United States and allies on the one side and Germany and Austria-Hungary on the other side.
- 1921Serbian King Alexander I proclaimed the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
- 1922The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
- 1936The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
- 1940Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
- 1942Nazi Germany started its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue
- 1948Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.
- 1948The Cominform circulates the “Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia”; Yugoslavia is expelled from the Communist bloc.
- 1950Bodo League massacre: Korean War.
- 1950Hangang Bridge bombing: Korean War.
- 1950Seoul is captured by North Korean troops.
- 1956in Poznań, workers from HCP factory went to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe.
- 1964Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
- 1967Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
- 1969Stonewall Riots begin in New York City marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.
- 1973Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
- 1976The Angolan court sentenced US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
- 1978The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
- 1981A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of Islamic Republic Party.
- 1987For the first time in the military history, a civilian target was attacked by chemical weapons when Iraqi warplanes dropped mustard gas bombs on the Iranian town of Sardasht in rwo separate bombing rounds, on four residential areas.
- 1989The 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo. Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle, which is later interpreted as foreshadowing the Yugoslav Wars.
- 1992The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
- 1994Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; 7 persons are killed, 660 injured.
- 1996The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
- 1997Mike Tyson vs. Evander Holyfield II – Tyson is disqualified in the 3rd round for biting a piece off Holyfield’s ear.
- 2001Slobodan Milošević deported to ICTY to stand trial.
- 2004Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
- 2005War in Afghanistan: Three U.S. Navy SEALs, 16 American Special Operations Forces soldiers, and an unknown number of Taliban insurgents are killed
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Who Were Born On June 28?
- 1476Pope Paul IV (d. 1559)
- 1490Albert of Mainz, bishop and elector of Mainz (d. 1545)
- 1491King Henry VIII of England (d. 1547)
- 1503Giovanni della Casa, Italian poet (d. 1556)
- 1577Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (d. 1640)
- 1641Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, French-born queen consort of Poland, wife of King John III Sobieski (d. 1716)
- 1703John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (d. 1791)
- 1712Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (d. 1778)
- 1719Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (d. 1785)
- 1806Napoleon Coste, French guitarist and composer (d. 1883)
- 1824Paul Broca, French physician (d. 1880)
- 1831Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (d. 1907)
- 1836Emmanuel Rhoides, Greek writer and journalist (d. 1904)
- 1867Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)
- 1873Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1944)
- 1875Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (d. 1941)
- 1883Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
- 1884Lamina Sankoh, Sierra Leone politician and nationalist (d. 1964)
- 1891Carl Panzram, American serial killer (d. 1930)
- 1891Carl Spaatz, American Air Force general (d. 1974)
- 1891Esther Forbes, American writer (d. 1968)
- 1900Bob Taggart, Scottish centenarian (d. 2009)
- 1902Richard Rodgers, American composer (d. 1979)
- 1906Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1972)
- 1907Emily Perry, English actress (d. 2008)
- 1909Eric Ambler, English writer (d. 1998)
- 1912Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (d. 2007)
- 1912Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor (d. 1996)
- 1913Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker (d. 2007)
- 1913Walter Oesau, German pilot (d. 1944)
- 1914Aribert Heim, Austrian physician (d. 1992)
- 1916Olle Björklund, Swedish actor and news presenter (d. 1981)
- 1917Katherine Rawls, American swimming champion (d. 1982)
- 1918Willie Whitelaw, British politician, Deputy Prime Minister (d. 1999)
- 1920A. E. Hotchner, American editor, novelist and playwright
- 1921P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)
- 1922Michael Vale, American actor (d. 2005)
- 1923Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, Argentine racing driver
- 1926Mel Brooks, American filmmaker
- 1927Corelli Barnett, British military historian
- 1927Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist, Nobel laureate
- 1928Cyril Smith, English Liberal politician (d. 2010)
- 1928Hans Blix, Swedish diplomat and politician
- 1928Harold Evans, English journalist and writer; editor of The Sunday Times
- 1930Itamar Franco, President of Brazil (d. 2011)
- 1931Junior Johnson, American NASCAR driver
- 1931Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (d. 1995)
- 1932Pat Morita, American actor (d. 2005)
- 1933Gusty Spence, Northern Irish loyalist politician
- 1934Carl Levin, United States Senator from Michigan
- 1934Robert Carswell, British law lord
- 1935John Inman, English actor (d. 2007)
- 1936Chuck Howley, American football player
- 1937George Knudson, Canadian golfer (d. 1989)
- 1937Richard Bright, American actor (d. 2006)
- 1937Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (d. 1995)
- 1937Tom Magliozzi, American radio personality, cohost of Car Talk
- 1938John Byner, American comedian
- 1938Leon Panetta, American Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1940Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi banker, economist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1940Renato Pagliari, Italian-born British singer in Renee and Renato (d. 2009)
- 1940Roderick Wright, Scottish Catholic bishop (d. 2005)
- 1941Al Downing, American baseball player
- 1941Ann Leslie, English journalist
- 1941Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (d. 2006)
- 1942Chris Hani, South African politician, leader of the South African Communist Party (d. 1993)
- 1942David Miner, American guitarist and record producer
- 1942Frank Zane, American bodybuilder
- 1943Donald Johanson, American paleoanthropologist
- 1943Jens Birkemose, Danish painter
- 1943Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1945David Knights, English bassist (Procol Harum)
- 1945Ken Buchanan, Scottish boxer
- 1946Bruce Davison, American actor
- 1946David Duckham, English rugby player
- 1946Gilda Radner, American comedienne (d. 1989)
- 1946Howard Barker, English playwright
- 1946Jaime Guzmán, Chilean politician (d. 1991)
- 1946Roger Godsiff, English politician
- 1947Anny Duperey, French film and television actress
- 1947Clarissa Dickson Wright, English celebrity chef
- 1947Mark Clark, American black power activist (d. 1969)
- 1947Mark Helprin, American writer
- 1947Robert Bondi, American politician
- 1948Kathy Bates, American actress
- 1950David Lanz, American New Age pianist
- 1950Mauricio Rojas, Swedish politician
- 1951Lalla Ward, British actress
- 1952Pietro Mennea, Italian sprinter
- 1952Ray Ashcroft, English actor
- 1954A. A. Gill, British writer and columnist
- 1954Alice Krige, South African actress
- 1955Eric Gates, English footballer
- 1955Shirley Cheriton, English actress
- 1955Steven M. Greer, American ufologist and author
- 1955Thomas Hampson, American baritone
- 1956Noel Mugavin, Australian Rules Football player
- 1957Georgi Parvanov, President of Bulgaria
- 1957Jim Spanarkel, American basketball player and TV personality
- 1957Lance Nethery, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
- 1957Mike Skinner, American racecar driver
- 1958Donna F. Edwards, U.S. Maryland Congresswoman, 4th Congressional District
- 1958Félix Gray, French singer and songwriter
- 1959Clint Boon, English musician and D.J.
- 1960John Elway, American football player
- 1961Jeff Malone, American basketball player
- 1962Artur Hajzer, Polish mountaineer
- 1963Charlie Clouser, American keyboard, synth and theremin player (Nine Inch Nails)
- 1963Peter Baynham, Welsh comedian and television writer
- 1963Wisit Sasanatieng, Thai film director
- 1964DJ Quicksilver, Turkish disc jockey and music producer
- 1964Mark Grace, American baseball player
- 1965Jessica Hecht, American actress
- 1965Sonny Strait, American voice actor
- 1966John Cusack, American actor
- 1966Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress
- 1966Sara Stewart, Scottish actress
- 1967Gil Bellows, Canadian actor
- 1967Lars Riedel, German discus thrower
- 1968Adam Woodyatt, English actor
- 1968Chayanne, Puerto Rican singer
- 1969Ayelet Zurer, Israeli actress
- 1969Danielle Brisebois, American actress
- 1970Mike White, American filmmaker and actor
- 1970Mushtaq Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer
- 1970Steve Burton, American actor
- 1970Tom Merritt, American technology journalist
- 1971Aileen Quinn, American actress
- 1971Bobby Hurley, American basketball player
- 1971Fabien Barthez, French footballer
- 1971Kenny Cunningham, Irish footballer
- 1971Lorenzo Amoruso, Italian footballer
- 1971Louise Mensch, British politician and novelist (Louise Bagshawe)
- 1971Norika Fujiwara, Japanese actress and television personality
- 1971Ray Slijngaard, Dutch musician
- 1971Ron Mahay, American baseball player
- 1971Tichina Arnold, American actress and singer
- 1972Alessandro Nivola, American actor
- 1972Christopher Leslie, English politician
- 1972Jon Heidenreich, American professional wrestler
- 1973Adrián Annus, Hungarian athlete
- 1973Corey Koskie, American baseball player
- 1974Alexis Tsipras, Greek politician, president of the Coalition of the Radical Left
- 1974Rob Dyrdek, American professional skateboarder
- 1975Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish guitarist and vocalist (Dissection) (d. 2006)
- 1975Ning Baizura, Malaysian singer
- 1976Seth Wescott, American snowboarder
- 1976Shinobu Asagoe, Japanese tennis player
- 1977Chris Spurling, American baseball player
- 1977Harun Tekin, Turkish singer, guitarist and pianist (Mor ve Ötesi)
- 1977Mark Stoermer, American bass player (The Killers)
- 1978Ha Ji-won, South Korean actress and singer
- 1978Simon Larose, Canadian professional tennis player
- 1979Felicia Day, American actress, writer, director, violinist, and singer
- 1979Florian Zeller, French novelist and playwright
- 1979Jeanette Aw, Singaporean actress
- 1979Randy McMichael, American football player
- 1981Brandon Phillips, American baseball player
- 1981Michael Crafter, Australian vocalist and bassist (I Killed the Prom Queen)
- 1982Elaine Tan, English actress
- 1983Maui Taylor, Filipino model and singer
- 1984Tamara Ecclestone, English socialite and television presenter
- 1985Phil Bardsley, English footballer
- 1986Kellie Pickler, American singer
- 1986Shadia Simmons, Canadian actress
- 1987Bailey Tzuke, English singer-songwriter
- 1987Terrence Williams, American basketball player
- 1988Lacey Schwimmer, American dancer
- 1990Jasmine Richards, Canadian actress
- 1990Nick Purcell, American actor
- 1991Seohyun (Seo Joo-hyun), South Korean singer (Girls’ Generation)
- 1994Madeline Duggan, English actress
- 1994Prince Hussein bin Al Abdullah II, Prince of Jordan
- 1995Kåre Hedebrant, Swedish actor
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Who Died On June 28?
- 548Theodora, Byzantine Empress, wife of Justinian I (b. c. 500)
- 572Alboin, King of the Lombards (b. c. 530)
- 767Pope Paul I (b. 700)
- 928Louis the Blind, King of Provence and Holy Roman Emperor (b. c. 880)
- 1061Floris I, Count of Holland (b. c. 1020)
- 1175Andrei I Bogolyubsky, Russian prince (b. c. 1111)
- 1194Emperor Xiaozong of Song, Emperor of China (b. 1127)
- 1385Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1348)
- 1389Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović of Serbia (b. 1329)
- 1586Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (b. 1508)
- 1598Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer (b. 1527)
- 1716George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (b. 1665)
- 1813Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general (b. 1755)
- 1834Joseph Bové, Russian architect (b. 1784)
- 1836James Madison, 4th President of the United States (b. 1751)
- 1880Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor and cowboy (b. 1846)
- 1881Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman (b. 1798)
- 1889Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (b. 1818)
- 1892Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (b. 1810)
- 1913Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, President of Brazil (b. 1841)
- 1914Countess Sophie Chotek, wife of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1868)
- 1914Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1863)
- 1915Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
- 1916Ştefan Luchian, Romanian painter (b. 1868)
- 1922Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (b. 1885)
- 1929Edward Carpenter, English poet (b. 1844)
- 1935Meletius IV, Greek Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1871)
- 1936Alexander Berkman, American anarchist and writer (d. 1870)
- 1960Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1898)
- 1962Cy Morgan, American baseball player (b. 1878)
- 1962Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player (b. 1903)
- 1965Red Nichols, American jazz cornetist and composer (b. 1905)
- 1971Franz Stangl, Austrian Nazi commander of concentration camps (b. 1908)
- 1974Frank Sutton, American actor (b. 1923)
- 1975Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis, Greek architect (b. 1913)
- 1975Rod Serling, American television scriptwriter (b. 1924)
- 1975Serge Reding, Belgian weightlifter (b. 1941)
- 1976Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and film producer (b. 1927)
- 1978Clifford Dupont, First President of Rhodesia (b. 1905)
- 1980José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1895)
- 1981Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist (b. 1958)
- 1984Yigael Yadin, Israeli archeologist, politician and Military Chief of Staff (b. 1917)
- 1985Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (b. 1913)
- 1989Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1898)
- 1992Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (b. 1936)
- 1993GG Allin, American punk rock singer (The Jabbers, The Cedar Street Sluts, The Scumfucs) (b. 1956)
- 1995Petri Walli, Finnish rock guitarist and singer (Kingston Wall) (b. 1969)
- 2000Jane Birdwood, British anti-Semitic activist (b. 1913)
- 2000Nils Poppe, Swedish actor (b. 1908)
- 2001Joan Sims, English actress (b. 1930)
- 2001Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (b. 1902)
- 2003Wim Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
- 2004Anthony Buckeridge, English author (b. 1912)
- 2005Brenda Howard, American LGBT activist (b. 1946)
- 2006George Page, American television host (b. 1935)
- 2006George Unwin, British WWII fighter ace (b. 1913)
- 2006Jim Baen, American science fiction publisher and editor (b. 1943)
- 2006Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, English barrister, politician and author (b. 1919)
- 2007Eugene Bennett Fluckey, American Naval Officer and WW II submarine commander, winner of the Medal of Honor and of four Navy Crosses) (b. 1913)
- 2007Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919)
- 2008Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (b. 1987)
- 2009A. K. Lohithadas, Indian screenwriter, director, and producer (b. 1955)
- 2009Billy Mays, American television pitchman (b. 1958)
- 2009Fred Travalena, American comedian and impressionist (b. 1942)
- 2010Bill Aucoin, American rock band manager (b. 1943)
- 2010Robert Byrd, American politician (b. 1917)
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