On this day: 28 June

Years ago today

Events · 26

• 1098(Julian date)
  Battle of Antioch — 1098 battle, part of the First Crusade
• 1389(Julian date)
  Battle of Kosovo — battle on 28th June 1389
• 1495(Julian date)
  Battle of Seminara — 1495 battle
• 1575(Julian date)
  Battle of Nagashino — 1575 battle in Japan
• 1651
  Battle of Berestechko — 1651 battle in Ukraine
• 1776
  Battle of Sullivan's Island — 1776 battle of the American Revolutionary War
• 1778
  Battle of Monmouth — American Revolutionary War battle fought on June 28, 1778
• 1838
  coronation of Queen Victoria — 1838 coronation of Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom.
• 1855
  Sigma Chi — fraternity founded in 1855
• 1881
  Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 — secret treaty
• 1914
  assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand — 1914 murder in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary
• 1919
  Treaty of Versailles — most important of the peace treaties of the First World War which ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers
• 1922
  Irish Civil War — conflict that followed the Irish War of Independence and accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State
• 1940
  Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina — 1940 Soviet annexation of territory in eastern Romania; Moldavian SSR established
• 1950
  Seoul National University Hospital Massacre — incident on 28 June 1950 in which the Korean People's Army killed approximately 700–900 people (doctors, nurses, inpatient civilians, wounded soldiers) at the Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul
• 1950
  Hangang Bridge bombing — destruction of the Hangang Bridge in Seoul by the South Korean Army on 28 June 1950 to delay the North Korean advance
• 1969
  Stonewall riots — 1969 LGBT rights demonstrations in New York City, United States
• 1981
  Haft-e Tir bombing
• 1982
  Aeroflot Flight 8641 — 1982 Yak-42 crash
• 1987
  Chemical bombing of Sardasht — 1987 chemical bombing in Iran by Iraq
• 1989
  Gazimestan speech — June 1989 Slobodan Milošević speech
• 1997
  Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson II — 1997 boxing match with an ear-biting incident
• 2004
  Iraqi Interim Government — Caretaker government of Iraq controlled by United States and allies (2004–2005)
• 2009
  2009 Honduran coup d'état — 2009 deposition of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya by the military
• 2016
  2016 Istanbul airport attack — terrorist attack in Turkey
• 2018
  2018 Shanghai knife attack — Chinese criminal incident

Births · 60

• 1476(Julian date)
  Paul IV — pope of catholic church 1555-1559
• 1490(Julian date)
  Albert of Mainz — German elector and cardinal (1490-1545)
• 1491(Julian date)
  Henry VIII of England — King of England from 1509 to 1547 (1491–1547)
• 1577(Julian date)
  Peter Paul Rubens — Flemish painter (1577–1640)
• 1712
  Jean-Jacques Rousseau — Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
• 1824
  Paul Broca — French physician, anatomist and anthropologist (1824-1880)
• 1825
  Emil Erlenmeyer — German chemist (1825–1909)
• 1831
  Joseph Joachim — Hungarian violinist, composer, and teacher (1831–1907)
• 1867
  Luigi Pirandello — Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer and poet (1867-1936)
• 1873
  Alexis Carrel — French surgeon and biologist
• 1875
  Henri Lebesgue — French mathematician (1875–1941)
• 1876
  Robert Guérin — President of FIFA (1876-1952)
• 1883
  Pierre Laval — French politician (1883–1945)
• 1902
  Richard Rodgers — American composer of songs and Broadway musicals (1902–1979)
• 1906
  Maria Göppert Mayer — German-born American theoretical physicist (1906-1972)
• 1912
  Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker — German physicist (1912–2007)
• 1912(Julian date)
  Sergiu Celibidache — Romanian conductor (1912–1996)
• 1914
  Aribert Heim — Austrian SS member and physician in Mauthausen concentration camp (1914-1992)
• 1921
  P. V. Narasimha Rao — Prime Minister of India (1991-1996)
• 1926
  Mel Brooks — American comedian, filmmaker, and actor (born 1926)
• 1927
  F. Sherwood Rowland — American chemist (1927–2012)
• 1928
  Hans Blix — Swedish politician (born 1928)
• 1930
  Itamar Franco — Brazilian politician (1930-2011)
• 1930
  William C. Campbell — Irish biochemist
• 1932
  Pat Morita — Japanese-American actor (1932–2005)

Deaths · 60

• 202(Julian date)
  Yuan Shao — Han Dynasty warlord (154-202)
• 548(Julian date)
  Theodora — Byzantine empress from 527 to 548
• 572
  Alboin — King of the Lombards
• 767(Julian date)
  Paul I — pope (700-767)
• 928(Julian date)
  Louis the Blind — Holy Roman Emperor from 901 to 905
• 1061(Julian date)
  Floris I, Count of Holland — Dutch noble (1025-1061)
• 1189(Julian date)
  Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony — English princess
• 1194(Julian date)
  Emperor Xiaozong of Song — Chinese Song dynasty emperor from 1162 to 1189
• 1385(Julian date)
  Andronikos IV Palaiologos — Byzantine emperor
• 1586
  Primož Trubar — Carniolan writer, Protestant reformer (1508-1586)
• 1598
  Abraham Ortelius — Flemish cartographer, geographer and cosmographer (1527–1598)
• 1607
  Domenico Fontana — Italian architect (1543-1607)
• 1716
  George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland — British Army general
• 1757
  Sophia Dorothea of Hanover — Prussian royal consort of Frederick William I
• 1813
  — Prussian general, reformer and freedom fighter (1755-1813)
• 1821
  August Friedrich Schweigger — German naturalist (1783-1821)
• 1836
  James Madison — President of the United States from 1809 to 1817 (1751–1836)
• 1892
  Alexandros Rizos Rangavis — Greek diplomat (1809-1892)
• 1913
  Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales — President of Brazil (1841-1913)
• 1914
  Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria — heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary (1863–1914)
• 1914
  Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg — wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1868–1914)
• 1916
  Ștefan Luchian — Romanian painter (1868-1916)
• 1922
  Velimir Khlebnikov — Russian writer (1885–1922)
• 1929
  Edward Carpenter — English utopian socialist, poet and activist (1844–1929)
• 1936
  Alexander Berkman — Russian-American anarchist and writer (1870–1936)