June 28 Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

June 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 186 days remaining.

Events

• 1243 - Innocent IV becomes pope.
• 1389 - Ottoman forces crush the armies of Christian Europe 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.
• 1838 - Queen Victoria crowned.
• 1887 - Minot, North Dakota incorporated as a city.
• 1894 - Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
• 1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophia are killed by a Serbian nationalist, the causus belli of World War I.
• 1919 - The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending World War I.
• 1936 - The puppet state of Mengjiang is formed, with Demchugdongrub as the head.
• 1940 - Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
• 1950 - Seoul captured by troops from North Korea.
• 1960 - US-owned oil refineries in Cuba confiscated and nationalised.
• 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 438 US 265 1978, bars quota systems in college admissions but affirms constitutionality of programs giving advantage to minorities.
• 1990 - Paperback Software, a company founded by Adam Osborne, 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 for biting off part of the ear of his opponent Evander Holyfield.
• 2004 - 2004 Canadian election.
• 2004 - Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia join the ERM II
• 2004 - Full sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S-led rule of that nation.

• 1476 - Pope Paul IV (d. 1559)
• 1490 - Albert of Mainz, bishop and elector of Mainz (d. 1545)
• 1491 - Henry VIII, king of England (d. 1547)
• 1577 - Peter Paul Rubens, painter (d. 1640)
• 1703 - John Wesley, of Epworth, England, founder of Methodism (d. 1791)
• 1712 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher (d. 1778)
• 1806 - Napoleon Coste, French guitarist, composer (d. 1883)
• 1807 - Anton Philipp Reclam, publisher (d. 1895)
• 1831 - Joseph Joachim, violinist (d. 1907)
• 1867 - Luigi Pirandello, dramatist and narrator, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature (d. 1936)
• 1902 - John Dillinger, gangster (d. 1934)
• 1902 - Richard Rodgers, composer (d. 1979)
• 1906 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1963 (d. 1972)
• 1906 - Paul-Emile Victor
• 1913 - Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker
• 1914 - Lester Flatt, bluegrass musician (d. 1979)
• 1926 - Mel Brooks, filmmaker
• 1932 - Pat Morita, actor
• 1936 - Chuck Howley, American football player
• 1938 - Moy Yat, Chinese Sealmaker, Martial Artist
• 1943 - Klaus von Klitzing, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics
• 1946 - Gilda Radner, actress (d. 1989)
• 1948 - Kathy Bates, actress
• 1948 - Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court judge
• 1952 - Pietro Mennea, Italian athlete
• 1954 - Alice Krige, actress
• 1960 - John Elway, National Football League player
• 1964 - Mark Grace, Major League Baseball player
• 1966 - John Cusack, actor
• 1968 - Adam Woodyatt, actor
• 1973 - Adrian Annus, hammer thrower
• 1976 - Arne Fines, Computer Programmer
• 1978 - Simon Larose, Tennis player

• 767 - Pope Paul I
• 1598 - Abraham Ortelius, cartographer (b. 1527)
• 1836 - James Madison, president of the US (b. 1751)
• 1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassination) (b. 1863)
• 1962 - Mickey Cochrane, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1903)
• 1965 - Red Nichols, jazz musician (b. 1905)
• 1974 - Frank Sutton, actor (Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C) (b. 1923)
• 1975 - Rod Serling, scriptwriter, host of The Twilight Zone (b. 1924)
• 1980 - José Iturbi, musician, conductor (b. 1895)
• 1981 - Terry Fox, cancer activist (b. 1958)
• 1989 - Joris Ivens, filmmaker (b. 1898)
• 1997 - Mrs. Miller, singer (b. 1907)
• 2001 - Mortimer Adler, philosopher (b. 1902)
• 2001 - Jim Ellis, co-creator of Usenet
• 2001 - Joan Sims, actress (b. 1930)
• 2004 - Anthony Buckeridge, author (b. 1912)

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