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

• 1635 –
  Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
• 1651 –
  The Battle of Beresteczko between Poland and Ukraine starts.
• 1838 –
  Coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
• 1859 –
  The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
• 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 –
  Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis claim to Barony of Arizona is “wholly fictitious and fraudulent”.
• 1921 –
  Serbian King Alexander I proclaimed the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
• 1964 –
  Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
• 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.

Who were born on June 28?

• 1490 –
  Albert of Mainz, bishop and elector of Mainz (d. 1545)
• 1907 –
  Emily Perry, English actress (d. 2008)
• 1913 –
  Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker (d. 2007)
• 1917 –
  Katherine Rawls, American swimming champion (d. 1982)
• 1928 –
  Hans Blix, Swedish diplomat and politician
• 1932 –
  Pat Morita, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1962 –
  Artur Hajzer, Polish mountaineer
• 1971 –
  Bobby Hurley, American basketball player
• 1971 –
  Louise Mensch, British politician and novelist (Louise Bagshawe)
• 1971 –
  Ron Mahay, American baseball player

Who died on June 28?

• 1914 –
  Countess Sophie Chotek, wife of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1868)
• 1915 –
  Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1935 –
  Meletius IV, Greek Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1871)
• 1975 –
  Serge Reding, Belgian weightlifter (b. 1941)
• 1981 –
  Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist (b. 1958)
• 1992 –
  Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (b. 1936)
• 1995 –
  Petri Walli, Finnish rock guitarist and singer (Kingston Wall) (b. 1969)
• 2000 –
  Jane Birdwood, British anti-Semitic activist (b. 1913)
• 2009 –
  A. K. Lohithadas, Indian screenwriter, director, and producer (b. 1955)
• 2009 –
  Billy Mays, American television pitchman (b. 1958)