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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