June 28
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June 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 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 different perfect numbers.
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[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-upon-Tyne, England.
- 1865 - The Army of the Potomac is disbanded
- 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 Sophie 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.
- 1964 - Malcom X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
- 1967 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
- 1973 - Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
- 1976 - The Angolan court sentenced US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
- 1978 - The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
- 1982 - Today (Australian TV program) first went to air
- 1983 - The Mianus River Bridge collapses over the Mianus River in Connecticut, killing 3 drivers in their vehicles.
- 1986 - ¡A Luchar! holds its first congress in Bogotà, Colombia.
- 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.
- 1996 - The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
- 2000 - Cuban exile, Elián González returns to Cuba following a Supreme Court order.
- 2001 - U.S. Appeals Court overturns a lower court's order to breakup Microsoft in an antitrust case.
- 2004 - The 17th NATO Summit starts in Istanbul.
- 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 - Flood 28 hits upstate New York.
[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)
- 1884 - Lamina Sankoh, early Sierra Leonean nationalist (d. 1964)
- 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)
- 1912 - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (d. 2007)
- 1913 - Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker
- 1913 - Walter Oesau, German pilot (d. 1944)
- 1914 - Aribert Heim, Austrian physician
- 1920 - A. E. Hotchner, American editor, novelist and playwright
- 1921 - P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)
- 1923 - Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, Argentine racing driver
- 1926 - Mel Brooks, American filmmaker
- 1927 - Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist, Nobel laureate
- 1928 - Dr Hans Blix, Head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission 2000-2003
- 1928 - Harold Evans, English journalist and writer; editor of The Sunday Times 1967-1981
- 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, English actor (d. 2007)
- 1936 - Chuck Howley, American football player
- 1937 - George Knudson, Canadian golfer (d. 1989)
- 1938 - Moy Yat, Chinese martial artist (d. 2001)
- 1940 - Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi banker, economist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1941 - Al Downing, American baseball player
- 1941 - Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (d. 2006)
- 1943 - Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1945 - David Knights, English bass guitarist (Procul Harum)
- 1946 - Gilda Radner, American actress (d. 1989)
- 1947 - Mark Helprin, American writer
- 1947 - Anny Duperey, French film and television actress
- 1947 - Clarissa Dickson Wright, English celebrity chef
- 1947 - Robert Bondi, American politician
- 1948 - Kathy Bates, American actress
- 1950 - Mauricio Rojas, Swedish politician
- 1952 - Pietro Mennea, Italian athlete
- 1952 - David Miner, American 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
- 1963 - Beverley Craven, singer-songwriter, most notably hit 'Promise Me' (UK no. 3, 1991)
- 1964 - Mark Grace, American baseball player
- 1966 - John Cusack, American actor
- 1966 - Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress
- 1967 - Lars Riedel, German discus thrower
- 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 - Tichina Arnold, American actress
- 1971 - Fabien Barthez, French footballer
- 1971 - Kenny Cunningham, Irish footballer
- 1971 - Aileen Quinn, American actress
- 1971 - Norika Fujiwara, Japanese actress and television personality
- 1971 - Juan Carlos Echeverry, Colombian operatic tenor
- 1972 - Jon Heidenreich, American professional wrestler
- 1973 - Adrian Annus, Hungarian athlete
- 1974 - Cindy Hall, American game show contestant
- 1976 - Shinobu Asagoe, Japanese tennis player
- 1976 - Seth Wescott, American snowboarder
- 1977 - Mark Stoermer, American bass player (The Killers)
- 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
- 1990 - Jasmine Richards, Canadian actress
- 1994 - Madeline Duggan, English actress
- 1994 - Prince Hussein bin Al Abdullah II, Prince of Jordan
[edit] Deaths
- 548 - Theodora, Byzantine empress
- 767 - Pope Paul I
- 928 - Louis the Blind, King of Provence
- 1061 - Floris I, Count of Holland
- 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)
- 1892 - Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (b. 1810)
- 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)
- 1971 - Franz Stangl, commandant of concentration camps (b. 1908)
- 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)
- 1985 - Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (b. 1913)
- 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)
- 2000 - Nils Poppe, Swedish actor (b. 1908)
- 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 observances
Catholic saints:
- Saint Benignus
- Saint Irenaeus of Lyon
- Saint Paulus I (died 767)
- Saint Marcella
- Saint Vincentia Gerosa[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Attwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. The Penguin Dictionary of Saints. 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 0140513124.
