Notable Historical Events on June 28th
June 28th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
767 |
St Paul I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
1098 |
Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul. |
1119 |
Battle of Sarmada - Emir Ilghazi defeats French Crusaders |
1245 |
1st Council of Lyons (13th ecumenical council) opens |
1389 |
Ottomans defeat Serbian army in the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe (see Vidovdan). |
1461 |
Edward IV crowned king of England |
1485 |
Gent/Brugge/Ieper recognize Maximilian of Austria as regent of Neth |
1519 |
King Carlos I elected Holy Roman Catholic Emperor Charles V |
1524 |
Duke of Bourbon occupies Province |
1575 |
Spanish troops conquer Buren |
1583 |
Duke Frans de Valois returns to France |
1593 |
Earl Mauritius conquerors Geertruidenberg |
1629 |
Peace of Ales: Rights of French huguenots limited |
1635 |
French colony of Guadeloupe established in Caribbean |
1651 |
Battle of Beresteczko between Poles and Ukrainians starts. |
1675 |
Battle at Fehrbellin: Brandenburg army beats Sweden |
1748 |
Riot after public execution in Amsterdam, 200+ killed |
1762 |
1st reported counterfeiting attempt (Boston) |
1762 |
Russian tsarina Catharina II seizes power |
1770 |
Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia |
1776 |
Charleston, SC repulses British sea attack |
1778 |
Battle of Monmouth, NJ (Gen Washington beats Clinton) |
1778 |
Mary Ludwig Hayes "Molly Pitcher" aids American patriots |
1807 |
British troops lands at Ensenada, Argentina |
1820 |
Tomato is proven non-poisonous |
1832 |
Gerrit Moll measures noise of guns |
1833 |
Three missionaries of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society obtain permission from Chief Moshoeshoe (Moshesh) to found a mission station in Basutoland (now Lesotho) |
1838 |
Coronation of Queen Victoria in Westminster Abbey, London |
1841 |
The Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris premieres the ballet Giselle |
1846 |
Saxophone is patented by Antoine Joseph Sax |
1855 |
The Sigma Chi Fraternity was founded at Miami University |
1859 |
1st dog show held (Newcastle-on-Tyne, England) |
1861 |
Leipzig Observatory discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) Comet d'Arrest |
1862 |
Day 4 of 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station/Garnett's Farm, VA |
1865 |
The Army of the Potomac is disbanded |
1869 |
Amsterdam typographer strike |
1874 |
Freedmen's Bank closes |
1880 |
Ned Kelly the Australian bushranger captured at Glenrowan. |
1887 |
Phillies most lopsided shut-out beating Indianapolis 24-0 |
1892 |
Phillies tie club record of 16 straight victories |
1894 |
Labor Day established as a holiday for federal employees |
1894 |
The Natal Legislature plans to introduce the Indian Franchise Bill, South Africa |
1895 |
El Salvador, Honduras & Nicaragua form Central American Union |
1897 |
Marquis C de Bonchamps' expedition reaches Gore Ethiopia |
1898 |
15th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Charlotte Sterry beats L Martin (6-4 6-4) |
1898 |
22nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Reginald Doherty beats L Doherty (6-3 6-3 2-6 5-7 6-1) |
1902 |
Congress authorizes Louisiana Purchase Expo $1 gold coin |
1902 |
US buys concession to build Panama canal from French for $40 million |
1902 |
Germany, Italy, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire renew their Triple Alliance for six more years |
1904 |
International Anti-Military Cooperation (IAMV) forms in Amsterdam |
1904 |
The SS Norge Runs aground and sinks |
1907 |
Nationals steal a record 13 bases off catcher Branch Rickey |
1909 |
1st French air show, Concours d'Avation opens |
1911 |
Joseph Caillaux forms government in France |
1914 |
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip at 10.45, the casus belli of WWI |
1917 |
Potato entrepreneurs begins in Amsterdam |
1918 |
1st flight between Hawaiian Islands |
1919 |
Carl Mazes pitches a complete doubleheader against NY Yankees |
1919 |
Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed in France - also established the League of Nations |
1922 |
The Irish Civil War starts when Irish Free State forces attack anti-treaty republicans in Dublin. |
1923 |
Dodgers lost 7-0 lead, as Phillies score 8 in bottom of 9th |
1923 |
Queen Wilhelmina & Prince Henry of the Netherlands state visit to London |
1924 |
Test cricket umpire debut for Frank Chester, v South Africa at Lord's |
1924 |
Tornado strikes Sandusky Ohio & Lorain Ohio, killing 93 |
1928 |
Alfred E Smith (NY-Gov) nominated for US president at Democratic Convention |
1928 |
Friedrich Schmiedl attempted rocket mail in Austria (unsuccessful) |
1930 |
1st night game in Detroit at newly built Hamtramck Stadium as Negro League Detroit Stars take on KC Monarchs |
1934 |
Hitler flies to Essen (Night of Long Knifes) |
1935 |
Earl Averill's consecutive-game streak ends at 673 |
1935 |
FDR orders a federal gold vault to be built at Fort Knox, Kentucky |
1935 |
70th British Golf Open: Alf Perry shoots a 283 at Muirfield |
1936 |
The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China. |
1938 |
Bradman scores 102* in drawn 2nd Test cricket at Lord's |
1939 |
Joe Louis TKOs Tony Galent in 4 for heavyweight boxing title |
1939 |
Pan Am opens southern route transatlantic air service (Dixie Clipper) |
1939 |
Yanks hit 13 HRs, sweep A's 23-2 & 10-0 |
1940 |
"Quiz Kids?" premieres on radio |
1940 |
Romania cedes Bessarabia to Soviet Union |
1941 |
German & Romanian soldiers kill 11,000 Jews in Kishinev |
1941 |
German troops occupy Galicia, Poland |
1942 |
Col-gen Von Hoth' 6th Pantser enters Voronezj |
1942 |
Dumont TV network begins (WABD NY) |
1945 |
Polish Provisional government of National Unity set up by Soviets |
1946 |
Enrico de Nicola becomes 1st pres of Italy |
1946 |
Permanent radio play-by-play of Cleve Indians games begins |
1947 |
"Temptation" (Tim-Tayshun) by Red Ingle with Jo Stafford hits #1 |
1948 |
US/British airlift to West Berlin begins |
1950 |
"Michael Todd's Peep Show" opens at Winter Garden NYC for 278 perfs |
1950 |
North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea in opening phase of the Korean War |
1951 |
"Amos 'n' Andy" premieres on CBS TV |
1953 |
8th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls |
1954 |
111°F (44°C) at Camden, South Carolina (state record) |
1956 |
1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago Ill |
1956 |
Riots break out in Poznan Poland, 38 die |
1957 |
Reds' fans stuff ballot box, electing 8 Reds as All Star starters |
1957 |
Frick overrules & names Stan Musial, Willie Mays, & Hank Aaron to team |
1958 |
Brazil becomes world soccer champ in Sweden |
1958 |
Nancy Ramey swims world record 100m (1:09.6) |
1959 |
Phils Wally Post is only outfielder to throw out 2 runners in an inning twice (Losing to Giants 6-0) |
1960 |
10.40" (26.42 cm) of rainfall, Dunmor, Kentucky (state 24-hour record) |
1961 |
Phils & SF set then record longest night game (5h11m) 7-7 15 inn tie |
1962 |
Thalidomide drug banned in Netherlands |
1963 |
Belaunde Terry inaugurated as pres of Peru |
1963 |
Khrushchev visits East-Berlin |
1964 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waldemar Golf Open |
1964 |
Organization for Afo-American Unity formed in NY by Malcolm X |
1965 |
1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by President Lyndon B. Johnson |
1965 |
Princess Beatrice & Claus von Amsberg announce engagement |
1966 |
Ernie Terrel beats Doug Jones in 15 wba for heavyweight boxing title |
1967 |
George Harrison is fined £6 for speeding |
1967 |
Israel annexes East Jerusalem |
1968 |
Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers |
1969 |
John Hampshire scores 107 on Test cricket debut v WI at Lord's |
1969 |
Stonewall riots begin in New York City. |
1970 |
Mary Mills wins LPGA Len Immke Buick Golf Open |
1970 |
Around 500 Catholic workers at the Harland and Wolff shipyard are forced to leave their work by Protestant employees as serious rioting continues in Belfast |
1971 |
Fillmore East closes |
1971 |
Phillies' Rick Wise hits 2 HRs & no-hits Reds |
1971 |
US Supreme Court (8-0) overturns draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali |
1973 |
Lawsuit in Detroit challenges Little League's "no girls" rule |
1973 |
Black Sports Hall of Fame forms: Paul Robeson, Elgin Baylor, Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, Wilma Rudolph, Joe Louis & Althea Gibson elected |
1973 |
New Zealand ship HMNZS Otago sails for Mururoa test zone after France's refusal to accept an International Court of Justice injunction against its atmospheric nuclear testing; NZ Prime Minister Norman Kirk told the crew of the Otago that their Mururoa mission was an 'honourable' one |
1973 |
Northern Ireland Assembly elections take place |
1974 |
Fall of earth & rocks kill 200 (Quebrada Blanca Canyon, Colombia) |
1974 |
Wings release "Band on the Run" & "Zoo Gang" in UK |
1975 |
David Bowie releases "Fame" |
1975 |
Golfer Lee Trevino is struck by lightning at Western Open (Ill) |
1975 |
The South African rugby team beats France 33-18 in Pretoria |
1976 |
1st woman was admitted to Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo |
1976 |
Three British mercenaries are sentenced to death for their part in the Angolan civil war |
1977 |
Billy Hunter becomes Rangers' 4th manager in 6 days |
1977 |
Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers |
1977 |
The United Party, main political opposition party in South Africa, is formally disbanded by the majority faction after members leave the party to join other new political parties |
1978 |
UNICEF chooses rock group Kansas as ambassadors of goodwill |
1978 |
Supreme Court orders Cal medical school to admit Allan Bakke a white man claiming reverse discrimination when application was rejected |
1979 |
OPEC raises oil prices 24% |
1980 |
NYC transit fare rises from 50 cents to 60 cents |
1980 |
The South African Springbok rugby team lead by Morné du Plessis beats the British Lions 12-10 in Port Elizabeth to lead 3-0 in the series |
1981 |
"Piaf" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 165 performances |
1981 |
74 government officials die in attack in Iran |
1981 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament |
1982 |
Prince Charles & Lady Diana name their baby "William" |
1983 |
Bridge section along I-95 in Greenwich, Ct collapsed kills 3 |
1983 |
NASA launches Galaxy-A |
1984 |
Former member of South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), Jeannette Schoon, and her six-year old daughter, Katryn, are killed by a letter bomb at Lubango, in northern Angola |
1985 |
Discovery ferried back to Kennedy Space Center via Bergstrom AFB, Tx |
1986 |
Irish population condemns divorce |
1986 |
Kenneth & Nellie Pike challenge Ala Dem runoff win by AG C Graddick |
1986 |
West European leaders, meeting in the Netherlands, delay indefinitely imposing economic sanctions against South Africa |
1987 |
"Dreamgirls" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 177 performances |
1987 |
Deb Richard wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
1987 |
Don Baylor sets career hit-by-pitch mark at 244 (Pitcher Rick Rhoden) |
1988 |
Mike Tyson sues to break contract with manager Bill Cayton |
1990 |
17th annual Daytime Emmy Awards |
1990 |
Emmy 17th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 11th time |
1991 |
South Africa signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty |
1992 |
"Chinese Coffee" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 18 performances |
1992 |
2 earthquakes, including 3rd strongest in US (7.4) rock California |
1992 |
Burharnuddin Rabbani becomes president of Afghanistan |
1992 |
Italian government of Amato forms |
1992 |
LA Police commisioner Daryl Gates steps down |
1992 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
1992 |
US Dream Team beats Cuba in 1st exhibition basketball game, 133-57 |
1992 |
The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law. |
1993 |
Doctors recommend ligament transplant to Jose Canseco's arm |
1993 |
Jacques Lemaire is named NJ Devils 8th Head Coach |
1993 |
NCRV shows last "Cheers" in Netherlands |
1993 |
Carlton Fisk, 45, released by White Sox, as all time leader of most games caught & most HRs by a catcher |
1994 |
NY Met Pitcher Dwight Gooden suspended for 60 days due to drug charges |
1995 |
NJ Devils Stanley Cup Victory Party, admidst rumours they were moving to Nashville, goalie Chris Terreri holds up "Nashville? NO WAY!" sign |
1996 |
"Nutty Professor" starring Eddie Murphy opens in theaters in the USA |
1996 |
The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law. |
1997 |
"Master Class" closes at Golden Theater NYC after 601 performances |
1997 |
"Steel Peer" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 76 perfs |
1997 |
TV evangelist Robert Schuller attacks a flight attendant |
2000 |
Cuban exile Elián González returns to Cuba following a Supreme Court order. |
2002 |
In South Africa, the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the Treatment Action Campaign table a national HIV/AIDS treatment plan in the National Economic, Development and Labour Council |
2004 |
Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism |
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. |
2005 |
A final design for Manhattan's Freedom Tower is formally unveiled. |
2006 |
The Republic of Montenegro was admitted as the 192nd Member of the United Nations by General Assembly resolution 60/264. |
2007 |
Craig Biggio of the Houston Astros becomes the 27th member of the 3000 hit club, going 5 for 5 against the Colorado Rockies. |
2012 |
A series of car bombs in Iraq kills 14 and injures 50 people |
2013 |
Jay Onrait and Dan O'Toole's final "Sportscentre" broadcast on TSN |
2016 |
Iceland Celebrates Improbable Win Over England at Euro 2016 |
2016 |
England manager Hodgson resigns after Euro 2016 exit |
2017 |
Massive cyberattack spreads ransomware across Europe, US |
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