On this day in History - Jun 28
- 0548 - Theodora dies. Byzantine empress
- 0572 - Alboin dies probably poisened by his wife Rosamunda. King of the Lombards
- 0767 - Pope Paul I dies
- 0928 - Louis the Blind dies. King of Provence
- 1061 - Floris I, Count of Holland dies.
- 1175 - Andrei Bogolyubsky dies. Russian prince
- 1194 - Emperor Xiaozong of Song China dies (b. 1127).
- 1243 - Sinibaldo Fieschi is nominated Pope Innocent IV .
- 1385 - Andronicus IV Palaeologus was born (d. 1348). Eastern Roman Emperor
- 1389 - Ottoman and Serbian armies fight the bloody battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe (see Vidovdan).
- 1389 - Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović of Serbia dies (b. 1329)
- 1461 - Edward IV ( Duke of York) is crowned king of England, after deposing of Henry VI of England.
- 1476 - Pope Paul IV was born (d. 1559)
- 1490 - Albert of Mainz was born (d. 1545). Bishop and elector of Mainz.
- 1491 - Henry VIII was born (d. 1547). King of England.
- 1503 - Giovanni della Casa was born (d. 1556). Italian poet.
- 1547 - Cristofano Malvezzi - date of baptism (d. 1599). Italian composer.
- 1577 - Peter Paul Rubens was born (d. 1640). Flemish painter “Helene Fourment” and “The Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus.”
- 1586 - Primož Trubar dies (b. 1508). Slovenian Protestant reformer.
- 1598 - Abraham Ortelius dies (b. 1527). Flemish-born cartographer.
- 1630 - Carta régia que reafirma o impedimento de desempenho de cargos públicos aos judeus.
- 1635 - Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
- 1641 - Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d'Arquien was born (d. 1716). Queen of Poland.
- 1650 - Toma posesión del gobierno de la Nueva España el 21º virrey, Don Luis Enríquez de Guzmán, conde de Alba de Liste. Ha de prolongar su mandato hasta el 15 de agosto en que pasará al Perú.
- 1651 - Battle of Beresteczko between Poles and Ukrainians, the biggest battle in the 17th century, starts.
- 1703 - John Wesley was born (d. 1791).English founder of Methodism.
- 1706 - O exército aliado, composto sobretudo de tropas portuguesas, comandado pelo marquês das Minas entra em Madrid, e faz aclamar o arquiduque Carlos de Áustria como Carlos III de Espanha
- 1712 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born (d. 1778). Swiss philosopher."The Social Contract."
- 1716 - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland dies (b. 1665). English general.
- 1719 - Étienne François, duc de Choiseul was born (d. 1785). French statesman.
- 1776 - Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, was hanged for mutiny and sedition.
- 1766 - Maurice, Due de Noailles dies. French commander.
- 1776 - Charles Mathews was born in London (d. 1835). Comedian.
- 1778 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Monmouth fought between the American Continental Army under George Washington and the British Army led by Sir Henry Clinton.
- 1801 - Francis Wheatley dies (b. 1747). English painter ( Lord Aldeburgh Reviewing Troops (1782) , A Family Group in a Landscape (1775 )
- 1806 - Napoleon Coste was born (d. 1883). French guitarist and composer.
- 1807 - Second British invasion; John Whitelock lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the fierce resistance of the locals.
- 1807 - Anton Philipp Reclam was born (d. 1895). German publisher.
- 1813 - Gerhard von Scharnhorst was born (d. 1755). Prussian general.
- 1814 - José Manuel de Emparan was born. Mexican politician.
- 1815 - Torii Kigonaga dies. Painter.
- 1824 - Paul Broca was born (d. 1880). French physician.
- 1831 - Joseph Joachim was born (d. 1907). Austrian violinist (Hungarian Concerto)
- 1834 - Joseph Bové dies (b. 1798). Russian architect
- 1836 - James Madison dies (b. 1751). President of the US.
- 1838 - The coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
- 1841 - The Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris premieres the ballet Giselle
- 1855 - The Sigma Chi Fraternity was founded at Miami University
- 1855 - James Henry Fitzroy, Lord Raglan, dies. British commander.
- 1865 - The Army of the Potomac is disbanded
- 1867 - Luigi Pirandello was born († 1936). Italian dramatist and narrator (Six Characters in Search of an Author), recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature.
- 1873 - Alexis Carrel was born (d. 1912). French biologist, physicist and writer. 1912 Nobel Prize in Medicine laureated for the development of blood vessel suture technique.
- 1875 - Henri Léon Lebesgue was born. French mathematicien.
- 1876 - August Wilhelm Ambros dies (b. 1816). Austrian composer and musicologist.
- 1880 - Texas Jack Omohundro dies (b. 1846). American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy.
- 1881 - Jules Armand Dufaure dies (b. 1798). French statesman.
- 1882 - Isidro Fabela Alfaro was born in Atlacomulco (d. 1964). Mexican writer, politiican and diplomat.
- 1883 - Pierre Laval wa orn (d. 1945). Prime Minister of France.
- 1884 - Lamina Sankoh was born (d. 1964). Sierra Leonean nationalist.
- 1884 - Francisco Otaviano dies (b. 26 Jun 1825). Brazilian poet, journalist and diplomat.
- 1886 - First scheduled Canadian transcontinental passenger train departs from Montreal, Quebec for Port Moody, British Columbia.
- 1887 - Minot, North Dakota incorporated as a city.
- 1889 - Francisco Otaviano dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 26 Jun 1825). Brazilian poet, journalist and diplomat.
- 1889 - Maria Mitchell dies (b. 1818). American astronomer.
- 1891 - Carl Panzram was born. American serial killer.
- 1891 - Carl Spaatz was born (d. 1974). American Air Force general.
- 1891 - Esther Forbes was born (d.1968). American writer.
- 1892 - Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves dies (b. 1810). Greek poet and statesman.
- 1894 - Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
- 1902 - The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
- 1902 - Richard Rodgers was born (d. 1979). American composer.
- 1904- The SS Norge Runs aground and sinks
- 1906 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer was born (d. 1972). Physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics.
- 1906 - Paul-Emile Victor was born (d. 1995). French ethnologist and explorer.
- 1907 - Don Hermenegildo Bustos dies in Guanajuato (b. 13 Apr 1832). Painter.
- 1909 - Eric Ambler was born (d. 1998). English author, widely regarded, with Somerset Maugham & Graham Greene, as a pioneer of espionage & crime fiction. Used the pseudonym Eliot Reed on four novels written with Charles Rodda.
- 1912 - Sergiu Celibidache was born (d. 1996). Romanian conductor.
- 1912 - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker was born (d. 2007). German physicist and philosopher.
- 1913 - Franz Antel was born. Austrian filmmaker
- 1913 - Walter Oesau was born (d. 1944). German pilot
- 1913 - Manuel Ferraz de Campos Salles dies (b. 1841). President of Brazil.
- 1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (b. 1863) and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip , the casus belli of World War I.
- 1914 - Aribert Heim was born. Austrian physician.
- 1914 - Lester Flatt was born (d. 1979). Bluegrass musician.
- 1914 - World War I (WW I) began in 1914 and ended on this date in 1919. In 1999 Niall Ferguson published "The Pity of War," in which he blames the British government for having turned a European war into a world war.
- 1915 - Victor Trumper was born (d. 1877). Australian cricketer.
- 1916 - Ştefan Luchian dies (b. 1868). Romanian painter.
- 1917 - Katherine Rawls was born (d.1982). American swimming champion.
- 1919 - The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, formally ending World War I between Britain, France, Italy, the United States and allies on the one side and Germany and Austria Hungary on the other side. / Assinatura do Tratado de Paz de Versalhes. A Alsácia e a Lorena são devolvidas à França. Afonso Costa assina por Portugal, vendo o país reconhecido o direito ao pagamento de indemnizações referentes aos prejuízos sofridos nas colónias, entre 1914 e 1916.
- 1919 - Harry S. Truman marries Elizabeth Virginia Wallace
- 1920 - A. E. Hotchner was born. American editor, novelist and playwright
- 1921 - P. V. Narasimha Rao was born (d. 2004). Prime Minister of India 1991 - 1996
- 1922 - The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
- 1922 - Michael Vale was born (d. 2005. American actor.
- 1922 - Velimir Khlebnikov dies (b. 1885). Russian poet.
- 1923 - Adolfo Schwelm Cruz was born. Argentine racing driver.
- 1926 - Mel Brooks was born. American comedian, actor and director ( "The Producers" , "Blazing Saddles", "Spaceballs")
- 1927 - Frank Sherwood Rowland was born. American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1927 - First cerebral angiography by Portuguese scientist Egas Moniz /Realizada a primeira angiografia cerebral, pelo médico português Egas Moniz
- 1928 - Dr Hans Blix was born. Swedish Head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission 2000-2003
- 1928 - Harold Evans was born. English journalist and writer; editor of The Sunday Times 1967-1981
- 1929 - Edward Carpenter dies (b. 1844). English poet.
- 1930 - Itamar (Augusto Cautiero) Franco was born in Juiz de Fora - MG. 46th President of Brasil (1992-1995).
- 1931 - Junior Johnson was born. American NASCAR driver
- 1932 - Pat Morita was born (d. 2005). American actor
- 1933 - Gusty Spence was born. Northern Irish loyalist politician
- 1934 - Carl Levin was born. United States Senator
- 1935 - John Inman was born (d. 2007). English actor.
- 1936 - The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
- 1936 - Chuck Howley was born. American football player
- 1937 - Juan José Saer was born. Argentine writer.
- 1937 - Richard Bright was born (d. 2006). American actor.
- 1937 - George Knudson was born (d. 1989). Canadian golfer.
- 1937 - Ron Luciano was born d. 1995). American baseball umpire.
- 1938 - John Byner was born. American comedian.
- 1938 - Moy Yat was born (d. 2001). Chinese martial artist
- 1940 - Muhammad Yunus was born. Bangladeshi banker, economist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1941 - Al Downing was born. American baseball player.
- 1941 - Joseph Goguen was born (d. 2006). American computer scientist.
- 1942 - Chris Hani was born (d. 1993). Leader of the South African Communist Party.
- 1942 - David Miner was born. American musician and record producer.
- 1943 - Donald Johanson was born. American paleoanthropologist.
- 1943 - Klaus von Klitzing was born. German physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics.
- 1945 - Raul (dos Santos) Seixas was born in Salvador, Bahia. Brazilian singer and composer.
- 1945 - David Knights was born. English bass guitarist (Procul Harum)
- 1946 - Enrico de Nicola becomes 1st President of Italy
- 1946 - Bruce Davison was born. American actor.
- 1946 - Gilda Radner was born (d. 1989). American actress.
- 1946 - Jaime Guzmán ws born. Chilean politician.
- 1947 - Mark Helprin was born. American writer.
- 1947 - Anny Duperey was born. French film and television actress.
- 1947 - Clarissa Dickson Wright was born. English celebrity chef.
- 1947 - Mark Helprin was born. American writer.
- 1947 - Robert Bondi was born. American politician.
- 1948 - Cominform circulates the "Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia"
- 1948 - Kathy Bates was born in Memphis, Tennessee. American Academy Award-winning actress ( Misery [1990]; Fried Green Tomatoes, Home of Our Own, Prelude to a Kiss)
- 1948 - Clarence Thomas was born. U.S. Supreme Court justice
- 1950 - Seoul is captured by troops from North Korea.
- 1950 - Mauricio Rojas was born. Swedish politician
- 1951 - Fumiko Hayashi dies in Tokyo. Japanese novelist, one of the best-known female novelists of post-World War. Among her most popular works are Daun taun (Downtown, 1948), & Ukigumo (The Drifting Clouds, 1949).
- 1952 - Pietro Mennea was born. Italian athlete
- 1952 - David Miner was born. American musician and record producer
- 1954 - Alice Krige was born. South African actress
- 1954 - Daniel (Tunes) Dantas was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actor.
- 1955 - Eric Gates was born. English footballer
- 1955 - Shirley Cheriton was born. English actress
- 1955 - Thomas Hampson was born. American baritone
- 1956 - Anti-communist demonstrations in Poznań. Also called Poznański czerwiec (June of Poznań).
- 1956 - Noel Mugavin was born. Australian Rules Football player
- 1957 - Georgi Parvanov was born. President of Bulgaria
- 1957 - Lance Nethery was born. Canadian ice hockey player and executive.
- 1957 - Mike Skinner was born. American racecar driver.
- 1958 - Alfred Noyes dies at 77 . British poet, essayist (Robin Hood, The Highwayman).
- 1958 - Félix Gray was born. French singer and songwriter.
- 1958 - Teresa de Menezes was born. Portuguese actress.
- 1960 - Cuba confiscates and nationalizes U.S.-owned oil refineries.
- 1960 - John Elway was born. American football player.
- 1960 - Jaume Vicens Vives dies. Historian.
- 1960 - Jake Swirbul dies (b. 1898). American aircraft manufacturer; Co-founder of Grumman aircraft Engineering Corporation
- 1962 - Cy Morgan dies (b. 1878). American baseball player
- 1962 - Mickey Cochrane dies (b. 1903). American baseball player.
- 1963 - Beverley Craven was born. English singer-songwriter, most notably hit 'Promise Me' (UK no. 3, 1991)
- 1964 - Mark Grace was born. American baseball player.
- 1964 - Malcom X forms the Organization for Afro American Unity to seek independence for blacks in the Western Hemisphere.
- 1965 - Red Nichols dies (b. 1905). American musician.
- 1966 - John Cusack was born in Evanston, Illinois. American actor ( Stand By Me, Sure Thing, Better Off Dead )
- 1966 - Mary Stuart Masterson was born in New York. American actress.
- 1967 - Lars Riedel was born.German discus thrower.
- 1968 - Adam Woodyatt was born. British actor.
- 1968 - Chayanne was born. Puerto Rican singer.
- 1969 - Danielle Brisebois was born. American actress.
- 1969 - David Allen Lambert was born. American genealogist and author.
- 1970 - Mushtaq Ahmed was born. Pakistani cricketer.
- 1970 - Steve Burton was born. American actor.
- 1971 - Aileen Quinn was born. American actress
- 1971 - Fabien Barthez was born. French footballer.
- 1971 - Juan Carlos Echeverry was born. Colombian operatic tenor
- 1971 - Kenny Cunningham was born. Irish footballer.
- 1971 - Norika Fujiwara was born. Japanese actress and television personality.
- 1971 - Ron Mahay was born. American baseball player
- 1971 - Tichina Arnold was born. American actress
- 1971 - Franz Stangl dies (b. 1908). Austrian SS officer, commandant of concentration camps.
- 1972 - Jon Heidenreich was born. American professional wrestler.
- 1973 - Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
- 1973 - Adrian Annus was born. Hungarian athlete
- 1973 - Alessandro Nivola was born in Boston, Massachussets. American actor.
- 1973 - Alberto Berastegui was born. Spanish tennis player.
- 1974 - Cindy Hall was born. American game show contestant
- 1974 - Rob Dyrdek was born. Professional skateboarder
- 1974 - Frank Sutton dies (b. 1923). American actor.
- 1975 - Jon Nödtveidt was born. Swedish Musician, Former Lead Singer of Dissection
- 1975 - Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis dies (b. 1913). Greek architect.
- 1975 - Rod Serling dies (b. 1924). American television scriptwriter, host of The Twilight Zone.
- 1976 - The Angolan court sentenced US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
- 1976 - As Ilhas Seychelles tornaram-se independentes do domínio britânico
- 1976 - Shinobu Asagoe was born. Japanese tennis player
- 1976 - Seth Wescott was born. American snowboarder
- 1976 - Stanley Baker dies (b. 1927). British actor and producer.
- 1977 - Chris Spurling was born. American baseball player.
- 1977 - Mark Stoermer was born. American bass player (The Killers)
- 1978 - The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
- 1978 - Simon Larose was born. French Canadian tennis player
- 1978 - Clifford Dupont dies (b. 1905). First President of Rhodesia.
- 1979 - Florian Zeller was born. French novelist and playwright
- 1979 - Randy McMichael was born. American football player.
- 1979 - Ha Ji-won was born. South Korean actress and singer
- 1979 - Blas de Otero dies. Poet.
- 1980 - José Iturbi dies (b. 1895). Spanish pianist and conductor.
- 1981 - Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti dies bombed. Iran Islamic Rep Party founder
- 1981 - Terry Fox dies (b. 1958). Canadian athlete and cancer activist.
- 1982 - Today (Australian TV program) first went to air
- 1982 - Grazielli Massafera was born. Brazilian model and actress.
- 1982 - Harry Mills dies (b. 1913). American singer (Mills Brothers).
- 1983 - The Mianus River Bridge collapses over the Mianus River in Connecticut, killing 3 drivers in their vehicles.
- 1983 - Maui Taylor was born. Filipino model and singer
- 1984 - Em Portugal, Barreiro foi elevado a Cidade
- 1985 - Phil Bardsley was born. English football player
- 1985 - Lambros Konstantaras dies (b. 1913). Greek actor.
- 1986 - Kellie Pickler was born. American singer
- 1986 - Shadia Simmons was born. Canadian actress
- 1988 - Four workers are asphyxiated at a metal-plating plant in Auburn, Indiana, in the worst confined-space industrial accident in U.S. history. A fifth victim dies two days later.
- 1988 - Lacey Schwimmer was born. American dancer.
- 1989 - Slobodan Milošević's delivers the Kosovo Polje speech.
- 1989 - Joris Ivens dies (b. 1898). Dutch filmmaker.
- 1990 - 17th annual Daytime Emmy Awards.
- 1990 - Paperback Software International Ltd., 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.
- 1990 - Jasmine Richards was born. Canadian actress
- 1992 - The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
- 1992 - Mikhail Tal dies (b. 1936). Latvian chess player whio was World Champion.
- 1993 - Boris Christoff dies at 70. Bulgaria-Italian bass (Don Carlos, Boris, Mefistofele).
- 1993 - GG Allin dies (b. 1956). American punk rock singer.
- 1994 - Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas attack at Matsumoto, Japan, 7 persons killed, 660 injured.
- 1994 - Madeline Duggan was born. English actress
- 1994 - Prince Hussein bin Al Abdullah II was born. Prince of Jordan
- 1995 - Nelson Mandela sets up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa to investigate human rights abuses of the Apartheid era.
- 1996 - The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
- 1997 - Mrs. Miller dies (b. 1907). Singer.
- 1997 - Boxer Mike Tyson is disqualified from WBA title re-match, for biting off part of the ear of his opponent Evander Holyfield.
- 1998 - The 12th World AIDS Conference opened in Geneva.
- 1998 - É realizado o primeiro referendo em Portugal (sobre a interrupção voluntária da gravidez).
- 2000 - Cuban exile, Elián González returns to Cuba following a Supreme Court order.
- 2000 - Jane Birdwood dies (b. 1913). British anti-Semitic activist.
- 2000 - Nils Poppe dies (b. 1908). Swedish actor.
- 2001 - U.S. Appeals Court overturns a lower court's order to breakup Microsoft in an antitrust case.
- 2001 - Boca Juniors da Argentina ganha a Taça dos Libertadores da América ao derrotar a Cruz Azul de México no desempate por penalties
- 2001 - Mortimer Adler dies (b. 28 Dez 1902). American philosopher. ( A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror: Further Autobiographical Reflections of a Philosopher at Large).
- 2001 - Joan Sims dies (b. 1930). English actress.
- 2002 - Xerox Corporation announced it had improperly reported $1.9 billion in revenue over the previous five years and would restate those financial results.
- 2003 - Wim Slijkhuis dies (b. 1923). Dutch athlete.
- 2004 - Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the CoalitionProvisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
- 2004 - The 17th NATO Summit starts in Istanbul.
- 2004 - Anthony Buckeridge dies (b. 1912). English author.
- 2004 - The European Union denied China's request to be officially recognized as a market economy, saying that an assessment of the Chinese economy showed too much state interference and poor corporate governance.
- 2005 - Canada becomes the third country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.
- 2005 - A final design for Manhattan's Freedom Tower is formally unveiled.
- 2005 - Brenda Howard dies (b. 1946). American LGBT activist.
- 2006 - The Republic of Montenegro was admitted as the 192nd Member of the United Nations by General Assembly resolution 60/264.
- 2006 - George Unwin dies (b. 1913). British fighter ace WWII
- 2006 - Jim Baen dies (b. 1943). American science fiction publisher and editor.
- 2006 - Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell dies (b. 1919). English barrister, politician and author.
- 2007 - Alistair Darling becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer, replacing new Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
- 2007 - Eugene Bennett Fluckey dies (b. 1913). American Navy Submariner.
- 2007 - Kiichi Miyazawa dies (b. 1919). 78th Prime Minister of Japan.
- Portugal: Feriado Municipal do Barreiro
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