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 180th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 186 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 15, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,719,532,800 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 ‘hectaoctacontagon’ 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 215 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 4,207 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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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
- 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.
- 1882 –The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
- 1936 –The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
- 1964 –Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
- 1967 –Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
- 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.
- 1989 –The 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo. Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle, which is later interpreted as foreshadowing the Yugoslav Wars.
- 2005 –War in Afghanistan: Three U.S. Navy SEALs, 16 American Special Operations Forces soldiers, and an unknown number of Taliban insurgents are killed
Who were born on June 28?
- 1907 –Emily Perry, English actress (d. 2008)
- 1937 –Richard Bright, American actor (d. 2006)
- 1940 –Renato Pagliari, Italian-born British singer in Renee and Renato (d. 2009)
- 1946 –Bruce Davison, American actor
- 1946 –David Duckham, English rugby player
- 1971 –Aileen Quinn, American actress
- 1971 –Tichina Arnold, American actress and singer
- 1977 –Harun Tekin, Turkish singer, guitarist and pianist (Mor ve Ötesi)
- 1985 –Phil Bardsley, English footballer
- 1987 –Terrence Williams, American basketball player
Who died on June 28?
- 1061 –Floris I, Count of Holland (b. c. 1020)
- 1598 –Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer (b. 1527)
- 1836 –James Madison, 4th President of the United States (b. 1751)
- 1935 –Meletius IV, Greek Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1871)
- 1981 –Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist (b. 1958)
- 1992 –Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (b. 1936)
- 2005 –Brenda Howard, American LGBT activist (b. 1946)
- 2006 –George Page, American television host (b. 1935)
- 2007 –Eugene Bennett Fluckey, American Naval Officer and WW II submarine commander, winner of the Medal of Honor and of four Navy Crosses) (b. 1913)
- 2008 –Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (b. 1987)
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