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June 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 186 days remaining.
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- 1243 - Innocent IV becomes pope.
- 1389 - Ottoman forces crush the armies of Christian Europe in Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe (see Vidovdan).
- 1519 - Charles V elected emperor of the Holy Roman EmpireThe Holy Roman Empire ( German: Heiliges Romisches Reich was a political conglomeration of lands in western and central Europe in the Middle Ages. Emerging from the eastern part of the Frankish realm after its division in the Treaty of Verdun ( 843), it l.
- 1635Events February 10 The Academie francaise in Paris is expanded to become a national academy for the artistic elite. April 13 Maronite warlord Fah-al-Din II executed in Constantinople October 9 Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from Massac - GuadeloupeGuadeloupe in the Caribbean Sea, is an archipelago with a total area of 1,704 kmē located in the Eastern Caribbean. Administratively speaking, Guadeloupe is an overseas departement departement d'outre-mer, or DOM of France. As the other DOMs, Guadeloupe i becomes a FrenchThe French Republic or France ( French: Republique francaise or France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. colony.
- 1651Events January 1 Charles II crowned King of Scotland in Scone. This is his first crowning. June 28 June 30: The biggest battle of the 17th century, Battle of Beresteczko, between Poles and Ukrainians, won by Poles. September 3 English Civil War: Battle of - Battle of BeresteczkoThe great Battle of Beresteczko (Berestechko in Ukrainian) in Volhynia (Wolyn in Polish, Volyn in Ukrainian), Ukraine, lasted from June 28 to June 30, 1651, between the Polish army under King Jan II Casimir and Ukrainian Cossack and peasant forces, led by between PolesThe Republic of Poland a country in Central Europe, lies between Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and the Baltic Sea, Lithuania and Russia (in the form of the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave) t and UkrainiansUkraine Ukrayina in Ukrainian; in Russian) is a republic in eastern Europe which borders the Black Sea to the south, the Russian Federation to the east, Belarus to the north, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west and Romania and Moldova to the west and, the biggest battle in the 17th century, starts.
- 1838 - Queen Victoria crowned.
- 1887 - Minot, North Dakota incorporated as a city.
- 1894 - Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
- 1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophia are killed by a Serbian nationalist, the causus belli of World War I.
- 1919 - The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending World War I.
- 1936 - The puppet state of Mengjiang is formed, with Demchugdongrub as the head.
- 1940 - Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
- 1950 - Seoul captured by troops from North Korea.
- 1960 - US-owned oil refineries in Cuba confiscated and nationalised.
- 1967 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
- 1969 - Stonewall riots in New York city mark the beginning of the modern gay rights era.
- 1978 - The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke 438 US 265 1978, bars quota systems in college admissions but affirms constitutionality of programs giving advantage to minorities.
- 1988 - Five workers asphyxiated at a metal-plating plant in Auburn, Indiana, in the worst confined-space industrial accident in U.S. history.
- 1990 - Paperback Software, 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.
- 1997 - Boxer Mike Tyson is disqualified for biting off part of the ear of his opponent Evander Holyfield.
- 2004 - 2004 Canadian election.
- 2004 - Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia join the ERM II
- 2004 - Full sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
