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 179th 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, 29,184,480 minutes 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.
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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.
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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
- 1651 –The Battle of Beresteczko between Poland and Ukraine starts.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
- 1778 –American Revolutionary War: Battle of Monmouth is fought between the American Continental Army under George Washington and the British Army led by Sir Henry Clinton.
- 1846 –The saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax in Paris, France.
- 1882 –The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
- 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.
- 1976 –The Angolan court sentenced US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
Who were born on June 28?
- 1909 –Eric Ambler, English writer (d. 1998)
- 1914 –Aribert Heim, Austrian physician (d. 1992)
- 1933 –Gusty Spence, Northern Irish loyalist politician
- 1937 –Richard Bright, American actor (d. 2006)
- 1947 –Mark Clark, American black power activist (d. 1969)
- 1947 –Mark Helprin, American writer
- 1955 –Steven M. Greer, American ufologist and author
- 1957 –Georgi Parvanov, President of Bulgaria
- 1972 –Christopher Leslie, English politician
- 1986 –Shadia Simmons, Canadian actress
Who died on June 28?
- 1175 –Andrei I Bogolyubsky, Russian prince (b. c. 1111)
- 1716 –George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (b. 1665)
- 1880 –Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor and cowboy (b. 1846)
- 1914 –Countess Sophie Chotek, wife of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1868)
- 1935 –Meletius IV, Greek Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1871)
- 1975 –Serge Reding, Belgian weightlifter (b. 1941)
- 1995 –Petri Walli, Finnish rock guitarist and singer (Kingston Wall) (b. 1969)
- 2000 –Nils Poppe, Swedish actor (b. 1908)
- 2004 –Anthony Buckeridge, English author (b. 1912)
- 2009 –A. K. Lohithadas, Indian screenwriter, director, and producer (b. 1955)
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