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, 1,751,068,800 seconds 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

• 1519 –
  Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1776 –
  American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
• 1807 –
  Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelock lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.
• 1865 –
  The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
• 1894 –
  Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
• 1904 –
  The SS Norge runs aground and sinks
• 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.
• 1978 –
  The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
• 1996 –
  The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.

Who were born on June 28?

• 1836 –
  Emmanuel Rhoides, Greek writer and journalist (d. 1904)
• 1940 –
  Roderick Wright, Scottish Catholic bishop (d. 2005)
• 1943 –
  Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1946 –
  Jaime Guzmán, Chilean politician (d. 1991)
• 1948 –
  Kathy Bates, American actress
• 1950 –
  Mauricio Rojas, Swedish politician
• 1957 –
  Georgi Parvanov, President of Bulgaria
• 1973 –
  Corey Koskie, American baseball player
• 1979 –
  Jeanette Aw, Singaporean actress
• 1981 –
  Michael Crafter, Australian vocalist and bassist (I Killed the Prom Queen)

Who died on June 28?

• 548 –
  Theodora, Byzantine Empress, wife of Justinian I (b. c. 500)
• 1061 –
  Floris I, Count of Holland (b. c. 1020)
• 1916 –
  Ştefan Luchian, Romanian painter (b. 1868)
• 1962 –
  Cy Morgan, American baseball player (b. 1878)
• 1971 –
  Franz Stangl, Austrian Nazi commander of concentration camps (b. 1908)
• 1975 –
  Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis, Greek architect (b. 1913)
• 2000 –
  Nils Poppe, Swedish actor (b. 1908)
• 2004 –
  Anthony Buckeridge, English author (b. 1912)
• 2006 –
  Jim Baen, American science fiction publisher and editor (b. 1943)
• 2009 –
  Fred Travalena, American comedian and impressionist (b. 1942)