Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 28
This is a list of selected June 28 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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An alto saxophone
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Archduke Ferdinand and family
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Ned Kelly
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James Reavis, the Baron of Arizona
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Manuel Zelaya
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Anna Pavlova as Giselle
Ineligible
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Constitution Day in Ukraine | stub |
1651 – Khmelnytsky Uprising: The Zaporozhian Cossacks began clashing with forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Berestechko in the Volhynia Region of present-day Ukraine. | neutrality issues, refimprove section |
1776 – Thomas Hickey, a private in the Continental Army and bodyguard to George Washington, became the first person to be executed for treason against what was to become the United States. | refimprove section |
1846 – Belgian clarinetist Adolphe Sax received a patent for the saxophone. | refimprove |
1880 – Police captured Australian bank robber and cultural icon Ned Kelly after a gun battle in Glenrowan, Victoria. | lots of CN tags |
1967 – Israel annexed East Jerusalem, having captured it from Jordan in the Six-Day War. | expansion |
1981 – Seventy-three leading officials of Iran's Islamic Republican Party were killed when a bomb exploded at the party's headquarters in Tehran. | multiple issues |
1992 – Japanese mountain climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to complete the Seven Summits. | appears on May 16 |
1997 – Mike Tyson bit off a portion of Evander Holyfield's ear during a boxing match at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. | refimprove section |
2004 – The Coalition Provisional Authority dissolved after handing the governance of Iraq to the Iraqi Interim Government. | lots of CN tags |
Muhammad Azam Shah (b. 1653) | unreferenced section (Ancestry) |
Eligible
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The South Carolina militia repelled a British attack on Charleston.
- 1841 – Giselle, a ballet by French composer Adolphe Adam, was first performed at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris.
- 1895 – The United States Court of Private Land Claims ruled that the title claimed by James Reavis to 18,600 sq mi (48,000 km2) in present-day Arizona and New Mexico was "wholly fictitious and fraudulent".
- 1904 – In the worst maritime disaster involving a Danish merchant ship, SS Norge ran aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic, and sank, resulting in more than 635 deaths.
- 1911 – The first meteorite to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars fell to Earth in Abu Hummus, Egypt.
- 1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated by a Yugoslav nationalist named Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, sparking the outbreak of World War I.
- 1922 – The Irish Civil War began with an assault by the Irish Free State's National Army on the Four Courts building, which had been occupied by the Anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army.
- 1942 – World War II: The German Wehrmacht launched Case Blue, a strategic summer offensive intended to knock the Soviet Union out of the war.
- 1950 – Korean War: South Korean military and police summarily executed at least 60,000 suspected North Korean sympathizers.
- 1956 – Workers demanding better conditions held massive protests in Poznań, Poland, but were violently repressed by the following day by 400 tanks and 10,000 soldiers of the Polish People's Army and the Internal Security Corps.
- 1978 – In Regents of the Univ. of Cal. v. Bakke, the U.S. Supreme Court barred quota systems in college admissions but declared that affirmative action programs giving advantage to minorities are constitutional.
- 1990 – Paperback Software, a company founded by Adam Osborne, was 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.
- 2005 – War in Afghanistan: eleven U.S. Navy SEALs and eight American special operations soldiers were killed during a failed counter-insurgent mission in Kunar Province.
- 2016 – Gunmen attacked Istanbul's Atatürk Airport, killing 45 people and injuring more than 230 others.
- Born/died: Primož Trubar (d. 1586) · Paul Broca (b. 1824) · Yvonne Sylvain (b. 1907) · Martha Wise (d. 1971)
- 572 – Alboin, king of the Lombards, was assassinated in a coup d'état instigated by the Byzantines.
- 1919 – The Treaty of Versailles was signed, formally ending World War I.
- 1969 – In response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn (pictured) in New York City, groups of gay and transgender people began to riot, a watershed event for the worldwide gay rights movement.
- 1989 – President Slobodan Milošević gave a speech in which he described the possibility of "armed battles" in the future of Serbia's national development.
- 2009 – Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was ousted by a local military coup following his attempt to hold a referendum to rewrite the constitution.
William Hooper (b. 1742) · Charles Cruft (b. 1852) · Meralda Warren (b. 1959)