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(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.
Events
1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul .
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.
1763 - Earthquake in Komarom , Hungary
1859 - First dog show is held in Newcastle-on-Tyne , England .
1880 - Ned Kelly the Australian bushranger captured at Glenrowan .
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 a empty field near Chicora, Pennsylvania
1940 - Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova ) to the Soviet Union .
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.
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 - 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.
Births
1243 to 1899
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 , German painter (d. 1640 )
1703 - John Wesley , English founder of Methodism (d. 1791 )
1712 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Swiss philosopher (d. 1778 )
1806 - Napoleon Coste , French guitarist and composer (d. 1883 )
1831 - Joseph Joachim , Austrian violinist (d. 1907 )
1867 - Luigi Pirandello , Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936 )
1891 - Carl Panzram , American serial killer (d. 1930 )
1900 to 1999
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
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
1967 - Kenneth Steven Becker, American taxpayer
1968 - Adam Woodyatt , British actor
1969 - Danielle Brisebois , American actress
1970 - Mushtaq Ahmed , Pakistani cricketer
1972 - Jon Heidenreich , American professional wrestler
1973 - Adrian Annus , Hungarian athlete
1976 - Shinobu Asagoe , Japanese tennis player
1979 - Randy McMichael , American football player
Deaths
767 to 1899
1900 to 1999
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 )
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 )
1997 - Mrs. Miller , American singer (b. 1907 )
2000 onwards
Holidays and observances
External links
June 27 - June 29 - May 28 - July 28 -- listing of all days
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