What are the important events that happened on June 28? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

June 28: Facts & Myths About This Day

June 28 is the 179^th 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.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 15, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 486,408 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaheptacontaenneagon’ day.

Cancer is the zodiac 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.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,572 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 28: This Day In History

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.

June 28 Historical Events

• 1635 –
  Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
• 1838 –
  Coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
• 1896 –
  An explosion in the Newton Coal Company’s Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston City, 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.
• 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.
• 1964 –
  Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
• 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.

Who were born on June 28?

• 1907 –
  Emily Perry, English actress (d. 2008)
• 1914 –
  Aribert Heim, Austrian physician (d. 1992)
• 1934 –
  Carl Levin, United States Senator from Michigan
• 1935 –
  John Inman, English actor (d. 2007)
• 1952 –
  Pietro Mennea, Italian sprinter
• 1954 –
  Alice Krige, South African actress
• 1963 –
  Charlie Clouser, American keyboard, synth and theremin player (Nine Inch Nails)
• 1965 –
  Jessica Hecht, American actress
• 1969 –
  Danielle Brisebois, American actress
• 1979 –
  Jeanette Aw, Singaporean actress

Who died on June 28?

• 548 –
  Theodora, Byzantine Empress, wife of Justinian I (b. c. 500)
• 1389 –
  Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović of Serbia (b. 1329)
• 1586 –
  Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (b. 1508)
• 1598 –
  Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer (b. 1527)
• 1922 –
  Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (b. 1885)
• 1962 –
  Cy Morgan, American baseball player (b. 1878)
• 1971 –
  Franz Stangl, Austrian Nazi commander of concentration camps (b. 1908)
• 1989 –
  Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1898)
• 2005 –
  Brenda Howard, American LGBT activist (b. 1946)
• 2007 –
  Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919)