On this day: June 28

Events on June 28

• 572 Alboin, the king of the Lombards, was assassinated in Verona in a coup d'état instigated by the Byzantines. Wikipedia
• 1461 Edward IV was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey. Wikipedia
• 1519 Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. Wikipedia
• 1776 American Revolutionary War: The militia of the Province of South Carolina repelled a British attack on Charleston. Wikipedia
• 1776 American 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. Wikipedia
• 1841 Giselle, a ballet by the French composer Adolphe Adam, was first performed at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris. Wikipedia
• 1846 Belgian musician Adolphe Sax patented his design of the saxophone. Wikipedia
• 1880 Police captured Australian bank robber and cultural icon Ned Kelly after a gun battle in Glenrowan, Victoria. Wikipedia
• 1894 Labor Day becomes an official US holiday. Wikipedia
• 1895 The U.S. Court of Private Land Claims ruled that James Reavis's claim to 18,600 sq mi (48,000 km2) of land in present-day Arizona and New Mexico was "wholly fictitious and fraudulent". Wikipedia
• 1904 In the worst maritime disaster involving a Danish merchant ship, SS Norge ran aground on Hasselwood Rock and sank in the North Atlantic, resulting in more than 635 deaths. Wikipedia
• 1911 The Nakhla meteorite, the first meteorite to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, fell to Earth in Abu Hummus, Egypt. Wikipedia
• 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, a Yugoslav nationalist, sparking the outbreak of World War I. Wikipedia
• 1916 First World War: Around 55,000 workers in Berlin went on strike to protest against the trial of anti-war campaigner Karl Liebknecht. Wikipedia
• 1919 The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I. Wikipedia
• 1922 The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces. Wikipedia
• 1926 Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies. Wikipedia
• 1942 World War II: The Wehrmacht launched Case Blue, a strategic German offensive to capture oil fields in the south of the Soviet Union. Wikipedia
• 1950 Korean War: South Korean forces began the Bodo League massacre, summarily executing tens of thousands of suspected North Korean sympathizers. Wikipedia
• 1956 Polish workers demanding better working conditions began massive protests in Poznań, but were later violently repressed by the Polish People's Army and the Internal Security Corps. Wikipedia
• 1963 Profumo affair: During the trial of Stephen Ward, Mandy Rice-Davies uttered the phrase "Well he would, wouldn't he?" Wikipedia
• 1969 In response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, groups of gay and transgender people began demonstrations, a watershed event for the worldwide gay rights movement. Wikipedia
• 1978 In Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the U.S. Supreme Court barred quota systems in college admissions but held that affirmative-action programs advantaging minorities were constitutional. Wikipedia
• 1989 President Slobodan Milošević gave a speech at Gazimestan in which he described the possibility of "armed battles" in the future of Serbia's national development. Wikipedia
• 1990 Paperback Software, a company founded by Adam Osborne, was found guilty of copyright infringement for using Lotus 1-2-3's look-and-feel interface in its own spreadsheet program. Wikipedia
• 2016 Gunmen attacked Istanbul's Atatürk Airport, killing 45 people and injuring more than 230 others. Wikipedia

Born on June 28

• 1476 Pope Paul IV (died 1559) Wikipedia
• 1491 Henry VIII, King of England (died 1547) Wikipedia
• 1577 Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter and diplomat (died 1640) Wikipedia
• 1703 John Wesley, English cleric and theologian (died 1791) Wikipedia
• 1712 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher and polymath (died 1778) Wikipedia
• 1867 Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1936) Wikipedia
• 1873 Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1944) Wikipedia
• 1883 Pierre Laval, French soldier and politician, 101st Prime Minister of France (died 1945) Wikipedia
• 1906 Maria Goeppert Mayer, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1972) Wikipedia
• 1921 P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of India (died 2004) Wikipedia
• 1926 Mel Brooks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Wikipedia
• 1927 Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2012) Wikipedia
• 1930 Itamar Franco, Brazilian engineer and politician, 33rd President of Brazil (died 2011) Wikipedia
• 1930 William C. Campbell, Irish-American biologist and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate Wikipedia
• 1940 Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate Wikipedia
• 1943 Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate Wikipedia
• 1948 Kathy Bates, American actress Wikipedia
• 1957 Georgi Parvanov, Bulgarian historian and politician, 4th President of Bulgaria Wikipedia
• 1966 John Cusack, American actor and screenwriter Wikipedia
• 1971 Elon Musk, South African-born American entrepreneur Wikipedia
• 1971 Fabien Barthez, French footballer Wikipedia
• 1991 Kevin De Bruyne, Belgian footballer Wikipedia

Died on June 28

• 548 Theodora I, Byzantine empress Wikipedia
• 683 Leo II, pope of the Catholic Church (born 611) Wikipedia
• 767 Paul I, pope of the Catholic Church (born 700) Wikipedia
• 1598 Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (born 1527) Wikipedia
• 1836 James Madison, American academic and politician, 4th President of the United States (born 1751) Wikipedia
• 1889 Maria Mitchell, American astronomer and academic (born 1818) Wikipedia
• 1914 Franz Ferdinand, archduke of Austria (born 1863) Wikipedia
• 1922 Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (born 1885) Wikipedia
• 1936 Alexander Berkman, American author and activist (born 1870) Wikipedia
• 1974 Vannevar Bush, American engineer and academic (born 1890) Wikipedia
• 1992 Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (born 1936) Wikipedia
• 2007 Kiichi Miyazawa, Japanese lawyer and politician, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (born 1919) Wikipedia
• 2010 Robert Byrd, American lawyer and politician (born 1917) Wikipedia
• 2018 Harlan Ellison, American writer (born 1934) Wikipedia

Holidays and observances

• International LGBTQ Pride Day, marking the anniversary of Stonewall riots. Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Basilides and Potamiana Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Irenaeus of Lyon (Western Christianity) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Heimerad Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Blessed Maria Pia Mastena Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Paulus I Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Vincenza Gerosa Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: June 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
• Constitution Day (Ukraine) Wikipedia
• Poznań Remembrance Day (Poland) Wikipedia
• Vidovdan, celebrating St. Vitus and an important day in Serbian history. (Eastern Orthodox Church) Wikipedia
• Tau Day Wikipedia

Sources

• Wikipedia — “June 28” — events, births, deaths and observances (text under CC BY-SA 4.0) (checked 2026-10-15)
• Wikipedia — “Selected anniversaries/June 28” — the anniversaries editors chose for the date and the article each one is about (checked 2026-10-15)
• Wikidata — in how many language editions each entry's own article exists, used to fill the lists (CC0) (checked 2026-10-15)
• vacanza/holidays (open-source holiday rules, MIT licence) — holiday rules used to build the lists (checked 2026-10-15)

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article “June 28” and the articles it links to (authors and history), retrieved 2026-10-15 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. Every anniversary that Wikipedia's editors selected for June 28 stays on the list; the remaining places, up to 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths, go to the entries whose own article — about the event itself, or else the person or thing it is about — appears in the most language editions (counted from Wikidata); an article about a person or thing, which covers far more than one day, counts half. An entry with no article of its own counts, also at half, by the least covered article it links, and one that links only places counts for nothing. Each list runs by year, and the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures, audio and video.