About June 28

June 28, 2025 is the 179th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 186 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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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 234 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.
  • 1778
    American Revolutionary War: Battle of Monmouth is fought between the American Continental Army under George Washington and the British Army led by Sir Henry Clinton.
  • 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.
  • 1894
    Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
  • 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.
  • 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
    The Cominform circulates the “Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia”; Yugoslavia is expelled from the Communist bloc.
  • 1950
    Hangang Bridge bombing: Korean War.
  • 1950
    Seoul is captured by North Korean troops.
  • 1956
    in Poznań, workers from HCP factory went to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe.
  • 1967
    Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
  • 1978
    The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
  • 1981
    A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of Islamic Republic Party.
  • 1987
    For the first time in the military history, a civilian target was attacked by chemical weapons when Iraqi warplanes dropped mustard gas bombs on the Iranian town of Sardasht in rwo separate bombing rounds, on four residential areas.
  • 1996
    The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.

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