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
• 1519 Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. Wikipedia
• 1635 Guadeloupe becomes a French colony. Wikipedia
• 1776 American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition. 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
• 1807 Second 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. Wikipedia
• 1882 The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone. 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
• 1902 The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal. Wikipedia
• 1904 The 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. Wikipedia
• 1911 The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in 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
• 1914 Causes 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. 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
• 1922 The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces. Wikipedia
• 1940 Romania cedes Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union after facing an ultimatum. 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
• 1942 World War II: Nazi Germany starts its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue. Wikipedia
• 1948 Cold War: The Tito–Stalin Split results in the expulsion of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from the Cominform. Wikipedia
• 1948 Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era. Wikipedia
• 1950 Korean War: South Korean forces began the Bodo League massacre, summarily executing tens of thousands of suspected North Korean sympathizers. Wikipedia
• 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. Wikipedia
• 1976 The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial. Wikipedia
• 1981 A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republican Party. Wikipedia
• 2001 Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial. Wikipedia
• 2009 Honduran 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. Wikipedia

Born on June 28

• 751 Carloman I, king of the Franks (died 771) Wikipedia
• 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
• 1906 Maria Goeppert Mayer, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1972) Wikipedia
• 1914 Aribert Heim, Austrian SS physician and Nazi war criminal (died 1992) 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 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
• 572 Alboin, King of the Lombards 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
• 1757 Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, queen consort of Frederick William I (born 1687)[citation needed] Wikipedia
• 1836 James Madison, American academic and politician, 4th President of the United States (born 1751) Wikipedia
• 1881 Jules Armand Dufaure, French politician, 33rd Prime Minister of France (born 1798) Wikipedia
• 1913 Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 4th President of Brazil (born 1841) Wikipedia
• 1914 Franz Ferdinand, archduke of Austria (born 1863) Wikipedia
• 1922 Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (born 1885) Wikipedia
• 1971 Franz Stangl, Austrian SS officer (born 1908) 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

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

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 2026-10-09 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. We picked the 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths with the widest coverage across Wikipedia's language editions (counted from Wikidata) and sorted them by year; the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures.