June 28

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.
   * 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.
   * 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 casus 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.
   * 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.

Births

   * 1476 - Pope Paul IV
   * 1490 - Albert of Mainz, bishop and elector of Mainz
   * 1491 - Henry VIII, king of England (+ 1547)
   * 1577 - Peter Paul Rubens, painter (+ 1640)
   * 1712 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher (+ 1778)
   * 1807 - Anton Philipp Reclam, publisher (+ 1895)
   * 1831 - Joseph Joachim, violinist (+ 1907)
   * 1867 - Luigi Pirandello, dramatist and narrator, recipient of the Nobel
     Prize in literature 1934 (+ 1936)
   * 1902 - Richard Rodgers, composer (+ 1979)
   * 1902 - John Dillinger, gangster (+ 1934)
   * 1906 - Paul-Emile Victor
   * 1906 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
     physics 1963 (+ 1972)
   * 1914 - Lester Flatt, bluegrass musician (+1979)
   * 1926 - Mel Brooks, filmmaker
   * 1932 - Pat Morita, actor
   * 1938 - Moy Yat, Chinese Sealmaker, Martial Artist
   * 1946 - Gilda Radner, actress (+ 1989)
   * 1948 - Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court judge
   * 1948 - Kathy Bates, actress
   * 1960 - John Elway, National Football League player

Deaths

   * 767 - Pope Paul I
   * 1598 - Abraham Ortelius, cartographer
   * 1836 - James Madison, president of the US
   * 1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassination)
   * 1975 - Rod Serling, scriptwriter, host of The Twilight Zone)
   * 1980 - Josˇ Iturbi, musician, conductor
   * 1981 - Terry Fox, cancer activist
   * 1989 - Joris Ivens, filmmaker
   * 1997 - Mrs. Miller, singer
   * 2001 - Jack Lemmon, actor
   * 2001 - Joan Sims, actress
   * 2001 - Jim Ellis, co-creator of Usenet
   * 2001 - Mortimer Adler, philosopher

Holidays and observances

   * Feast of St Irenaeus of Lyons

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