The 28t o Juin is the 179t day o the year (180t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 186 days tae come.
Events
- 1461 – Edward IV is crouned Keeng o Ingland.
- 1635 – Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
- 1838 – Coronation o Queen Victoria o the Unitit Kinrick.
- 1846 – Adolphe Sax patents the saxophone.
- 1904 – Helen Keller graduates frae Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- 1914 – Airchduke Franz Ferdinand o Austrick an his wife are assassinatit in Sarajevo bi Gavrilo Princip, the casus belli o Warld War I.
- 1919 – The Treaty o Versailles is signed in Paris, bringin fichtin tae an end atween Germany an the Allies o Warld War I.
- 1940 – Romanie cedes Bessarabia (nou Moldova) tae the Soviet Union.
- 1948 – A yirdquauk in Fukui, Japan, kills 5,390 fowk.
- 1950 – Korean War: Seoul is captured bi North Korean truips.
- 1973 – Elections are held tae the Northren Ireland Assembly.
- 1981 – A powerful bomb splodes in Tehran, Iran, killin 73 members o the Islamic Republican Pairty.
- 1992 – Estonie's Constitution is signed intae law.
- 1996 – Ukraine's Constitution is signed intae law.
- 2006 – Montenegro becomes a member o the Unitit Naitions.
- 2008 – Wendy Alexander propales her demission as leader o the Scots Labour Pairty.
- 2009 – Preses o Honduras Manuel Zelaya is removed in a coup.
- 2010 – Robert Byrd, the langest-servin Unitit States Senator, dees agit 92; he haed taken affice on 3 Januar 1959.
- 2016 – At least 41 fowk are kilt in a terrorist attack on Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2018 – Scotland's hottest temperatur, 33.2 degrees Celsius, is recordit in Mitherwall, afore it is later discreeditit.
- 2019 – Fraunce records its hottest temperatur, 45.9 degress Celsius, at Gallargues-le-Montueux.
- 2019 – The European Union an Mercosur agree a tred deal.
- 2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: The nummer o cases o COVID-19 recordit warldwide reaches 10 million; a quairter o thaim (2.5 million) are in the Unitit States.
- 2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: The nummer o recordit daiths warldwide reaches 500,000.
- 2020 – Lazarus Chakwera becomes Preses o Malawi.
Births
- 1476 – Pape Paul IV (d. 1559)
- 1491 – Henry VIII o Ingland (d. 1547)
- 1577 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish penter (d. 1640)
- 1692 – Louisa Maria Stuart (d. 1712)
- 1703 – John Wesley, Inglis cleric an theologian (d. 1791)
- 1712 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher an polymath (d. 1778)
- 1761 – George Gordon, 9t Marquess o Huntly, Scots peer (d. 1853)
- 1865 – David Young Cameron, Scots penter (d. 1945)
- 1867 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (d. 1936)
- 1873 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon (d. 1944)
- 1883 – Pierre Laval, French politeecian, 101st Prime meenister o Fraunce (d. 1945)
- 1906 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German-American pheesicist (d. 1972)
- 1922 – Bobby Campbell, Scots fitbawer (d. 2009)
- 1926 – Mel Brooks, American actor, director, producer, an writer
- 1928 – Hans Blix, Swadish politeecian an diplomat
- 1930 – Itamar Franco, Preses o Brazil (d. 2011)
- 1930 – William C. Campbell, Erse-American biologist
- 1934 – Georges Wolinski, French cartoonist (d. 2015)
- 1940 – Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist an ceevil society leader
- 1940 – Karpal Singh, Malaysie lawyer an politeecian (d. 2014)
- 1941 – David Johnston, umwhile Govrenor General o Canadae
- 1943 – Klaus von Klitzing, German pheesicist
- 1948 – Kathy Bates, American actress
- 1956 – A. A. Gill, Breetish writer an creetic (d. 2016)
- 1957 – Georgi Parvanov, 3rd Preses o Bulgarie
- 1966 – John Cusack, American actor
- 1968 – Chayanne, Puerto Rican sangster an componer
- 1969 – Adam Tomkins, Scots politeecian
- 1969 – Ayelet Zurer, Israeli actress
- 1971 – Fabien Barthez, French fitbawer
- 1971 – Elon Musk, Sooth African-American entrepreneur
- 1985 – Phil Bardsley, Inglis-Scots fitbawer
- 1987 – Scott Fox, Scots fitbawer
- 1991 – Kevin De Bruyne, Belgian fitbawer
Daiths
Halidays
- Saunt Irenaeus
- Soviet Occupation Day (Moldovae)
- Tau Day
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