June 28Birthdays & History

On this day: June 28 in history

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1. 1098Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul at the battle of Antioch.Middle EastEurope
2. 1360Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.Europe
3. 1461Edward, Earl of March, is crowned King Edward IV of England.Europe
4. 1495A French force heavily defeats a much larger Neapolitan and Spanish army at the battle of Seminara, leading to the creation of the Tercios by Gonzalo de Córdoba.Europe
5. 1519Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.Europe
6. 1575Sengoku period of Japan: The combined forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu are victorious in the Battle of Nagashino.Asia
7. 1635Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.Europe
8. 1651The Battle of Berestechko between Poland and Ukraine starts.Europe
9. 1745A New England colonial army captures the French fortifications at Louisbourg (New Style).Europe
10. 1776American Revolution: Thomas Jefferson and the Committee of Five present the draft of the United States Declaration of Independence to the Second Continental Congress, which orders it to "lie on the table" for further edits by the assembly.North America
11. 1776American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Sullivan's Island ends with the American victory, leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day.North America
12. 1776American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.North America
13. 1778American Revolutionary War: The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.North AmericaEurope
14. 1797French troops disembark in Corfu, beginning the French rule in the Ionian Islands.Europe
15. 1807Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelocke lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.EuropeLatin America
16. 1838Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.Europe
17. 1841The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier.Europe
18. 1855Sigma Chi fraternity is founded in North America.North America
19. 1859The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.Europe
20. 1865The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.North America
21. 1870The US Congress establishes the first federal holidays (New Year Day, July 4th, Thanksgiving, and Christmas).North America
22. 1880Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.Oceania
23. 1881The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.Europe
24. 1882The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.EuropeAfrica
25. 1894Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.North America
26. 1895The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis's claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."North America
27. 1896An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.North America
28. 1902The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.North AmericaLatin America
29. 1904The SS Norge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270 mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.Europe
30. 1911The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt.Middle East
31. 1914Causes of World War I: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo, beginning the July Crisis and providing the casus belli of World War I.Europe
32. 1917World War I: Greece joins the Allied powers.Europe
33. 1919The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I.Europe
34. 1921Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.Europe
35. 1922The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.Europe
36. 1926Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.Europe
37. 1936The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.AsiaAsia
38. 1940Romania cedes Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union after facing an ultimatum.Europe
39. 1942World War II: Nazi Germany starts its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue.Europe
40. 1945Poland's Soviet-allied Provisional Government of National Unity is formed over a month after V-E Day.Europe
41. 1948Cold War: The Tito–Stalin Split results in the expulsion of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from the Cominform.Europe
42. 1948Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.Europe
43. 1950Korean War: The Korean People's Army kills almost a thousand doctors, nurses, inpatient civilians and wounded soldiers in the Seoul National University Hospital massacre.Asia
44. 1950Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers (between 60,000 and 200,000) are executed in the Bodo League massacre.Asia
45. 1950Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blow up the Hangang Bridge in an attempt to slow North Korea's offensive. The city falls later that day.Asia
46. 1956In Poznań, workers from HCP factory go to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe.Europe
47. 1964Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.North America
48. 1969Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.North America
49. 1973Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.Europe
50. 1976The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.AfricaNorth AmericaEurope
51. 1978The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, bars quota systems in college admissions.North America
52. 1981A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republican Party.Middle East
53. 1982Aeroflot Flight 8641 crashes in Mazyr, Belarus, killing 132 people.Europe
54. 1987For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bomb the Iranian town of Sardasht.Middle East
55. 1989On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle.Europe
56. 1997Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear.North America
57. 2001Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.Europe
58. 2004Iraq War: Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.Middle EastNorth America
59. 2009Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran Constitution. This was the start of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis.Latin America
60. 2012The United States Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius.North America
61. 2016A terrorist attack in Turkey's Istanbul Atatürk Airport kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others.Middle East

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