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June 28 in History
Historical Events on June 28
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Assassination of Alboin, King of the Lombards.
1098
Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
1360
Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.
1461
Edward IV is crowned King of England.
1519
Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1635
Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
1651
The Battle of Berestechko between Poland and Ukraine starts.
1709
Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
1745
A New England colonial army captures the French fortifications at Louisbourg (New Style).
1776
The Battle of Sullivan's Island ends with the American victory in the American Revolutionary War leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day.
1776
Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
1778
The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.
1807
Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelocke lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.
1838
Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
1841
The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier.
1846
Adolphe Sax patents the saxophone.
1855
Sigma Chi fraternity is founded in North America.
1859
The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
1865
The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
1880
Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
1881
The Austro-Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
1882
The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
1894
Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
1895
El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Greater Republic of Central America.
1895
The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis' claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
1896
An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
1902
The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
1904
The SS Norge runs aground and sinks.
1914
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
1919
The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I.
1921
Serbian King Alexander I proclaims 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.
1926
Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
1936
The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
1940
Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union after facing an ultimatum.
1942
World War II: Nazi Germany starts its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue.
1945
Poland's Soviet-allied Provisional Government of National Unity is formed over a month after V-E Day.
1948
The Tito-Stalin Split results in the expulsion of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from the Cominform.
1948
Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.
1950
Korean War: Seoul is captured by North Korean troops.
1950
Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers (between as many as 100,000 to 200,000) are executed in the Bodo League massacre.
1950
Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blow up the Hangang Bridge to in attempt to slow North Korea's offensive.
1950
Korean War: North Korean Army conducts Seoul National University Hospital massacre.
1956
in Poznań, workers from HCP factory go to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe.
1964
Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
1969
Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.
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 sentences 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.
1981
A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republican Party.
1987
For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.
1989
On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle.
1997
Holyfield-Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear.
2001
Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.
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.
2009
Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran Constitution. This was the start of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis.
2016
A terrorist attack in Turkey's Istanbul Atatürk Airport kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others.
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