About June 28
June 28, 2024 is the 180th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 186 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 215 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
- 1098 –Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
- 1651 –The Battle of Beresteczko between Poland and Ukraine starts.
- 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.
- 1904 –The SS Norge runs aground and sinks
- 1914 –Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip, the casus belli of World War I.
- 1919 –The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, formally ending World War I between Belgium, Britain, France, Italy, the United States and allies on the one side and Germany and Austria-Hungary on the other side.
- 1921 –Serbian King Alexander I proclaimed the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
- 1940 –Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
- 1942 –Nazi Germany started its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue
- 1948 –Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.
- 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.
- 1978 –The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
- 2004 –Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
- 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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