About June 28
June 28, 2023 is the 179th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 186 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 227 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
June 28: More About This Day
In common years it is always in ISO week 26.
This date is the only date each year where both the month and day are different perfect numbers, June 6 being the only date where the month and day are the same perfect number.
What Happened On June 28
- 1461 –Edward IV is crowned King of England.
- 1519 –Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1651 –The Battle of Beresteczko between Poland and Ukraine starts.
- 1841 –The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier
- 1859 –The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
- 1880 –The Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
- 1881 –Secret treaty between Austria and Serbia.
- 1882 –The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
- 1883 –In Milan in Italy inaugurated the first central European electricity power station.
- 1894 –Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
- 1921 –Serbian King Alexander I proclaimed the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
- 1922 –The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
- 1940 –Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
- 1948 –The Cominform circulates the “Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia”; Yugoslavia is expelled from the Communist bloc.
- 1967 –Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
- 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.
- 1976 –The Angolan court sentenced US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
- 1992 –The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
- 1994 –Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; 7 persons are killed, 660 injured.
- 2005 –War in Afghanistan: Three U.S. Navy SEALs, 16 American Special Operations Forces soldiers, and an unknown number of Taliban insurgents are killed
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