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June 28

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June 28, 2006

June 28, 2005

June 28, 2004

June 28, 2003

(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.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

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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.
1859 - First 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.
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 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 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.
1989 - Slobodan Milosevic's 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.
1997 - Boxer Mike Tyson is disqualified from WBA title re-match, for biting off part of the ear of his opponent Evander Holyfield.
2004 - 38th Canadian federal election
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's lower house paves the way for same-sex marriage to be legalized there, and make it the third country to do so.

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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 Pierre 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)
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 (d. 2005)
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
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
1973 - Adrian Annus, Hungarian athlete
1976 - Shinobu Asagoe, Japanese tennis player
1979 - Randy McMichael, American football player

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Deaths

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)
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)
1968 - Clifford Dupont, First President of Rhodesia (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)
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)

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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]).

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