June 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 186 days remaining until the end of the year.
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.
Today in history
1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
1389 – Ottomans defeat Serbian army in 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 starts.
1776 – Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
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.
1807 – Second British invasion; John Whitelock lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the fierce resistance of the locals.
1838 – The coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
1841 – The Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris premieres the ballet Giselle
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.
1894 – Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
1895 – El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Central American Union.
1896 – An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston City, Pennsylvania resulted in a massive cave-in that killed 58 miners.
1902 – The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
1904 – The SS Norge Runs aground and sinks
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 Belgium, 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.
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"; Yugoslavia is expelled from the Communist bloc.
1948 – Boxer Dick Turpin beat Vince Hawkins at Villa Park, Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.
1950 – Seoul is captured by troops from North Korea.
1956 – Protests and demonstrations in Poznań. Also called Poznański czerwiec (June of Poznań).
1964 – Malcom X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
1967 – Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
1969 – Stonewall riots begin in New York City.
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.
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 Bogotá, Colombia.
1990 – Paperback Software International Ltd. 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.
1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas attack at Matsumoto, Japan, 7 persons killed, 660 injured.
1996 – The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
1997 – Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield II – Tyson is disqualified in the 3rd round for biting a piece from Holyfield's ear.
2000 – Cuban exile Elián González returns to Cuba following a Supreme Court order.
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 – Operation Red Wing, involving four U.S. Navy SEAL members, took place. Three of the SEALs are killed during the operation, whilst a fourth is protected by local villagers and is rescued by the US military. In addition, an MH-47 Chinook helicopter carrying 8 Nightstalkers – members of the Army's elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR) – and 8 US Navy SEALs is shot down while attempting to come to their rescue to provide extraction in the mountains of the Kunar province, Afghanistan. All 16 on board were killed.
2006 – The Republic of Montenegro is admitted as the 192nd Member of the United Nations by General Assembly resolution 60/264.
2007 – The Spice Girls announce plans for a reunion tour.
Births
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, Flemish painter (d. 1640)
1641 – Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d'Arquien, queen of Poland (d. 1716)
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 laureate (d. 1936)
1873 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel laureate (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)
1891 – Esther Forbes, American writer (d. 1968)
1891 – Carl Spaatz, American Air Force general (d. 1974)
1902 – Richard Rodgers, American composer (d. 1979)
1906 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1972)
1909 – Eric Ambler, English writer (d. 1998)
1912 – Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor (d. 1996)
1912 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (d. 2007)
1913 – Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker (d. 2007)
1913 – Walter Oesau, German pilot (d. 1944)
1914 – Aribert Heim, Austrian physician (d. 1992)
1917 – Katherine Rawls, American swimming champion (d. 1982)
1918 – Willie Whitelaw, British Deputy Prime Minister 1979-88 (d. 1999)
1920 – A. E. Hotchner, American editor, novelist and playwright
1921 – P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)
1922 – Michael Vale, American actor (d. 2005)
1923 – Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, Argentine racing driver
1926 – Mel Brooks, American filmmaker
1927 – Corelli Barnett, British military historian
1927 – Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1928 – Hans Blix, Swedish diplomat and politician
1928 – Harold Evans, English journalist and writer; editor of The Sunday Times
1930 – Itamar Franco, President of Brazil
1931 – Junior Johnson, American NASCAR driver
1931 – Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (d. 1995)
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 – Richard Bright, American actor (d. 2006)
1937 – George Knudson, Canadian golfer (d. 1989)
1937 – Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (d. 1995)
1938 – John Byner, American comedian
1938 – Moy Yat, Chinese martial artist (d. 2001)
1938 – Leon Panetta, current Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
1940 – Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi banker, economist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1940 – Roderick Wright, ex-Scottish bishop (d. 2005)
1941 – Al Downing, American baseball player
1941 – Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (d. 2006)
1942 – Chris Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party (d. 1993)
1942 – David Miner, American musician and record producer
1942 – Frank Zane, American bodybuilder
1943 – Donald Johanson, American paleoanthropologist
1943 – Jens Birkemose, Danish painter
1943 – Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1945 – David Knights, English musician (Procol Harum)
1946 – Bruce Davison, American actor
1946 – Gilda Radner, American comedienne (d. 1989)
1946 – Jaime Guzmán, Chilean politician.
1947 – Robert Bondi, American politician
1947 – Mark Clark (Black Panther), murdered in 1969 Chicago Police raid
1947 – Clarissa Dickson Wright, English celebrity chef
1947 – Anny Duperey, French film and television actress
1947 – Mark Helprin, American writer
1948 – Kathy Bates, American actress
1950 – Mauricio Rojas, Swedish politician
1952 – Pietro Mennea, Italian athlete
1954 – A. A. Gill, British writer and columnist
1954 – Alice Krige, South African actress
1955 – Shirley Cheriton, English actress
1955 – Eric Gates, English footballer
1955 – Thomas Hampson, American baritone
1956 – Noel Mugavin, Australian Rules Football player
1957 – Lance Nethery, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
1957 – Georgi Parvanov, President of Bulgaria
1957 – Mike Skinner, American racecar driver
1958 – Félix Gray, French singer and songwriter
1960 – John Elway, American football player
1963 – Beverley Craven, English singer-songwriter
1963 – Wisit Sasanatieng, Thai film director
1964 – Mark Grace, American baseball player
1964 – Sanjeev Bhaskar, British actor and comedian
1965 – Jessica Hecht, American actress
1966 – John Cusack, American actor
1966 – Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress
1967 – Gil Bellows, Canadian actor
1967 – Lars Riedel, German discus thrower
1968 – Adam Woodyatt, English actor
1968 – Chayanne, Puerto Rican singer
1969 – Danielle Brisebois, American actress
1969 – Ayelet Zurer, Israeli actress
1970 – Mushtaq Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer
1970 – Steve Burton, American actor
1970 – Mike White, American filmmaker and actor
1971 – Tichina Arnold, American actress
1971 – Louise Bagshawe, British novelist and politician
1971 – Fabien Barthez, French footballer
1971 – Kenny Cunningham, Irish footballer
1971 – Norika Fujiwara, Japanese actress and television personality
1971 – Ron Mahay, American baseball player
1971 – Aileen Quinn, American actress
1972 – Jon Heidenreich, American professional wrestler
1972 – Alessandro Nivola, American actor
1973 – Adrian Annus, Hungarian athlete
1974 – Rob Dyrdek, Professional skateboarder
1975 – Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish musician, Dissection
1976 – Shinobu Asagoe, Japanese tennis player
1976 – Seth Wescott, American snowboarder
1977 – Mark Stoermer, American bass player (The Killers)
1977 – Chris Spurling, American baseball player
1977 – Harun Tekin, Turkish musician, Mor ve Ötesi
1978 – Simon Larose, Canadian professional tennis player
1979 – Ha Ji-won, South Korean actress and singer
1979 – Randy McMichael, American football player
1979 – Florian Zeller, French novelist and playwright
1981 – Michael Crafter, Australian musician (Confession)
1983 – Maui Taylor, Filipino model and singer
1985 – Phil Bardsley, English football player
1986 – Kellie Pickler, American singer
1986 – Shadia Simmons, Canadian actress
1987 – Terrence Williams, American Basketball Player
1988 – Lacey Schwimmer, American dancer
1990 – Jasmine Richards, Canadian actress
1994 – Madeline Duggan, English actress
1994 – Prince Hussein bin Al Abdullah II, Prince of Jordan
Deaths
548 – Theodora, Byzantine empress
767 – Pope Paul I
928 – Louis the Blind, King of Provence and Holy Roman Emperor
1061 – Floris I, Count of Holland
1175 – Andrei Bogolyubsky, Russian prince
1194 – Emperor Xiaozong of Song China (b. 1127)
1385 – Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Byzantine 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, 4th President of the United States (b. 1751)
1880 – Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (b. 1846)
1881 – Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman (b. 1798)
1889 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (b. 1818)
1892 – Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (b. 1810)
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, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1962 – Cy Morgan, American baseball player (b. 1878)
1965 – Red Nichols, American musician (b. 1905)
1971 – Franz Stangl, Austrian commandant of concentration camps (b. 1908)
1974 – Frank Sutton, American actor (b. 1923)
1975 – Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis, Greek architect (b. 1913)
1975 – Serge Reding, Belgian weightlifter (b. 1941)
1975 – Rod Serling, American television scriptwriter (b. 1924)
1976 – Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and film 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)
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 – Jim Baen, American science fiction publisher and editor (b. 1943)
2006 – George Page, American television host (b. 1935)
2006 – Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, English barrister, politician and author (b. 1919)
2006 – George Unwin, British WWII fighter ace (b. 1913)
2007 – Eugene Bennett Fluckey, American Navy Submariner (b. 1913)
2007 – Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919)
2008 – Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (b. 1987)
Holidays and observances
Vidovdan, Orthodox religious holiday commemorating St. Vitus
