Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 28
This is a list of selected June 28 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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| Constitution Day in Ukraine | stub |
| 1651 – Khmelnytsky Uprising: The Zaporozhian Cossacks began clashing with forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Berestechko in the Volhynia Region of present-day Ukraine. | refimprove section |
| 1776 – Thomas Hickey, a private in the Continental Army and bodyguard to George Washington, became the first person to be executed for treason against what was to become the United States. | refimprove section |
| 1880 – Police captured Australian bank robber and cultural icon Ned Kelly after a gun battle in Glenrowan, Victoria. | lots of CN tags |
| 1919 – The Treaty of Versailles was signed, formally ending World War I. | refimprove section |
| 1922 – The Irish Civil War began with an assault by the Irish Free State's National Army on the Four Courts building, which had been occupied by the Anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army. | refimprove section |
| 1967 – Israel annexed East Jerusalem, having captured it from Jordan in the Six-Day War. | expansion |
| 1981 – Seventy-three leading officials of Iran's Islamic Republican Party were killed when a bomb exploded at the party's headquarters in Tehran. | neutrality issues |
| 1992 – Japanese mountain climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to complete the Seven Summits. | appears on May 16 |
| 1997 – Mike Tyson bit off a portion of Evander Holyfield's ear during a boxing match at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. | refimprove section |
| 2004 – The Coalition Provisional Authority dissolved after handing the governance of Iraq to the Iraqi Interim Government. | lots of CN tags (5) |
| 2005 – War in Afghanistan: eleven U.S. Navy SEALs and eight American special operations soldiers were killed during a failed counter-insurgent mission in Kunar Province. | Incomplete citations |
| 2009 – Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was ousted by a local military coup following his attempt to hold a referendum to rewrite the constitution. | refimprove section |
| Muhammad Azam Shah |b|1653 | unreferenced section (Ancestry) |
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- 572 – Alboin, the king of the Lombards, was assassinated in Verona in a coup d'état instigated by the Byzantines.
- 1841 – Giselle (title role pictured), a ballet by the French composer Adolphe Adam, was first performed at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris.
- 1846 – Belgian musician Adolphe Sax patented his design of the saxophone (example pictured).
- 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".
- 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.
- 1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated by a Yugoslav nationalist named Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, sparking the outbreak of World War I.
- 1916 – First World War: Around 55,000 workers in Berlin went on strike to protest against the trial of anti-war campaigner Karl Liebknecht.
- 1942 – World War II: The Wehrmacht launched Case Blue, a strategic German offensive to capture oil fields in the south of the Soviet Union.
- 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.
- 1969 – In response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, groups of gay and transgender people began to riot, a watershed event for the worldwide gay rights movement.
- 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.
- 1989 – President Slobodan Milošević gave a speech in which he described the possibility of "armed battles" in the future of Serbia's national development.
- 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.
- Born/died: |James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley |d|1497| Primož Trubar |d|1586| William Hooper |b|1742| Paul Broca |b|1824| James Madison |d|1836| Charles Cruft |b|1852| Olga Sapphire|b|1907| Amira Hass |b|1956| Meralda Warren |b|1959| Martha Wise |d|1971|Franz Stangl |d|1971
June 28: First day of Eid al-Adha (Islam, 2023); Vidovdan in Serbia
Fragments of the Nakhla meteorite
- 1461 – Edward IV was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The militia of the Province of South Carolina repelled a British attack on Charleston.
- 1911 – The Nakhla meteorite (fragments pictured), the first meteorite to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, fell to Earth in Abu Hummus, Egypt.
- 1950 – Korean War: South Korean forces began the Bodo League massacre, summarily executing tens of thousands of suspected North Korean sympathizers.
- 2016 – Gunmen attacked Istanbul's Atatürk Airport, killing 45 people and injuring more than 230 others.
- Pope Leo II (d. 683)
- Elizabeth Ann Linley (d. 1792)
- Yvonne Sylvain (b. 1907)
- Kiichi Miyazawa (d. 2007)