June 28

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Holidays & Observances Constitution Day, Vidovdan, Family Day (Vietnam), Tau Day, Poznań Remembrance Day (Poland) Events BET Awards 2015, BET Awards 2009, 2012 NBA draft Famous birthdays Elon Musk, Markiplier, Chayanne, Kevin De Bruyne, John Cusack

June 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 186 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Friday or Saturday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Wednesday (56).

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.

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Events

1098 – Assassination of Alboin, King of the Lombards

1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosull.

1360 – Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.

1461 – Edward IV is crowned King of England.

1519 – Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

1635 – Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.

1651 – The Battle of Berestechko between Poland and Ukraine starts.

1709 – Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava

1745 – A New England colonial army captures the French fortifications at Louisbourg (New Style).

1776 – The Battle of Sullivan's Island ends with the American victory in the American Revolutionary War leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day.

1776 – Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.

1778 – The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.

1807 – Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelocke lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.

1838 – Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

1841 – The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier

1846 – Adolphe Sax patents the saxophone

1855 – Sigma Chi fraternity is founded in North America.

1859 – The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

1865 – The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.

1880 – Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.

1881 – The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.

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 – El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Greater Republic of Central America.

1895 – The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis' claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."

1896 – An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, 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.

1904 – The SS Norge runs aground and sinks

1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.

1919 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I.

1921 – Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.

1922 – The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.

1926 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.

1936 – The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.

1940 – Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union after facing an ultimatum.

1942 – World War II: Nazi Germany starts its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue

1945 – Poland's Soviet-allied Provisional Government of National Unity is formed over a month after V-E Day.

1948 – The Tito–Stalin Split results in the expulsion of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from the Cominform.

1948 – Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.

1950 – Korean War: Seoul is captured by North Korean troops.

1950 – Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers (between as many as 100,000 to 200,000) are executed in the Bodo League massacre.

1950 – Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blow up the Hangang Bridge to in attempt to slow North Korea's offensive.

1950 – Korean War: North Korean Army conducts Seoul National University Hospital massacre.

1956 – in Poznań, workers from HCP factory go to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe.

1964 – Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.

1969 – Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.

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.

1976 – The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.

1978 – The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.

1981 – A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republican Party.

1987 – For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.

1989 – On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle.

1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; Seven people are killed, 660 injured.

1997 – Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear.

2001 – Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.

2004 – Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.

2009 – Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran Constitution. This was the start of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis.

2016 – A terrorist attack in Turkey's Istanbul Atatürk Airport kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others.

Births

751 – Carloman I, king of the Franks (d. 771)

1243 – Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (d. 1304)

1444 – Charlotte, Queen of Cyprus (d. 1487)

1476 – Pope Paul IV (d. 1559)

1490 – Albert of Mainz, German archbishop (d. 1545)

1491 – Henry VIII of England (d. 1547)

1503 – Giovanni della Casa, Italian author and poet (d. 1556)

1547 – Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1599)

1577 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter and diplomat (d. 1640)

1582 – William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English politician (d. 1662)

1703 – John Wesley, English cleric and theologian (d. 1791)

1712 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher and polymath (d. 1778)

1719 – Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1785)

1734 – Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier, French organist and composer (d. 1794)

1742 – William Hooper, American physician, lawyer, and politician (d. 1790)

1824 – Paul Broca, French physician, anatomist, and anthropologist (d. 1880)

1831 – Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1907)

1836 – Emmanuel Rhoides, Greek journalist and author (d. 1904)

1852 – Charles Cruft, English showman, founded Crufts Dog Show (d. 1938)

1867 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)

1873 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944)

1875 – Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician and academic (d. 1941)

1883 – Pierre Laval, French soldier and politician, 101st Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)

1884 – Lamina Sankoh, Sierra Leonean banker and politician (d. 1964)

1888 – George Challenor, Barbadian cricketer (d. 1947)

1888 – Stefi Geyer, Hungarian violinist and educator (d. 1956)

1891 – Esther Forbes, American historian and author (d. 1968)

1891 – Carl Andrew Spaatz, American general (d. 1974)

1893 – August Zamoyski, Polish-French sculptor (d. 1970)

1894 – Francis Hunter, American tennis player (d. 1981)

1902 – Richard Rodgers, American playwright and composer (d. 1979)

1906 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Polish-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)

1907 – Jimmy Mundy, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1983)

1909 – Eric Ambler, English author and screenwriter (d. 1998)

1912 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (d. 2007)

1913 – Franz Antel, Austrian director and producer (d. 2007)

1913 – George Lloyd, English soldier and composer (d. 1998)

1913 – Walter Oesau, German colonel and pilot (d. 1944)

1914 – Aribert Heim, Austrian SS physician and Nazi war criminal (d. 1992)

1918 – William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, Scottish-English politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1999)

1919 – Joseph P. Lordi, American government official (d. 1983)

1920 – A. E. Hotchner, American author and playwright

1921 – P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)

1922 – Lloyd La Beach, Panamanian sprinter and long jumper (d. 1999)

1923 – Pete Candoli, American trumpet player (d. 2008)

1923 – Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, Argentinian race car driver (d. 2012)

1923 – Gaye Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2010)

1926 – Mel Brooks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

1926 – Robert Ledley, American academic and inventor (d. 2012)

1927 – Correlli Barnett, English historian and author

1927 – Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)

1928 – Hans Blix, Swedish politician and diplomat, 33rd Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs

1928 – Harold Evans, English-American historian and journalist

1928 – Peter Heine, South African cricketer (d. 2005)

1928 – Cyril Smith, English politician (d. 2010)

1930 – William C. Campbell, Irish-American biologist and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate

1930 – Itamar Franco, Brazilian engineer and politician, 33rd President of Brazil (d. 2011)

1930 – Jack Gold, English director and producer (d. 2015)

1931 – Hans Alfredson, Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter

1931 – Junior Johnson, American race car driver

1931 – Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (d. 1995)

1932 – Pat Morita, American actor (d. 2005)

1933 – Gusty Spence, Northern Irish loyalist and politician (d. 2011)

1934 – Robert Carswell, Baron Carswell, Northern Irish lawyer and judge, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland

1934 – Roy Gilchrist, Jamaican cricketer (d. 2001)

1934 – Bette Greene, American journalist and author

1934 – Carl Levin, American lawyer and politician

1934 – Georges Wolinski, Tunisian-French journalist and cartoonist (d. 2015)

1935 – John Inman, English actor (d. 2007)

1936 – Chuck Howley, American football player

1937 – George Knudson, Canadian golfer (d. 1989)

1937 – Fernand Labrie, Canadian endocrinologist and academic

1937 – Ron Luciano, American baseball player and umpire (d. 1995)

1938 – John Byner, American actor and comedian

1938 – Leon Panetta, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of Defense

1938 – S. Sivamaharajah, Sri Lankan Tamil newspaper publisher and politician (d. 2006)

1939 – Klaus Schmiegel, German chemist

1940 – Karpal Singh, Malaysian lawyer and politician (d. 2014)

1940 – Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

1941 – Al Downing, American baseball player and sportscaster

1941 – Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist and academic, developed the OBJ language (d. 2006)

1941 – David Johnston, Canadian academic, lawyer, and politician, 28th Governor-General of Canada

1942 – Chris Hani, South African politician (d. 1993)

1942 – Hans-Joachim Walde, German decathlete (d. 2013)

1943 – Jens Birkemose, Danish painter

1943 – Donald Johanson, American paleontologist and academic

1943 – Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

1945 – Ken Buchanan, Scottish boxer

1945 – David Knights, English bass player and producer (Procol Harum)

1945 – Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1989)

1945 – Türkan Şoray, Turkish actress, director, and screenwriter

1946 – Robert Asprin, American soldier and author (d. 2008)

1946 – Bruce Davison, American actor and director

1946 – David Duckham, English rugby player

1946 – Jaime Guzmán, Chilean lawyer and politician (d. 1991)

1946 – Gilda Radner, American actress and comedian (d. 1989)

1947 – Mark Helprin, American novelist and journalist

1947 – Laura Tyson, American economist and academic

1948 – Kathy Bates, American actress

1948 – Sergei Bodrov, Russian-American director, producer, and screenwriter

1948 – Deborah Moggach, English author and screenwriter

1948 – Daniel Wegner, Canadian-American psychologist and academic (d. 2013)

1949 – Don Baylor, American baseball player and coach

1950 – Philip Fowke, English pianist and educator

1950 – Mauricio Rojas, Chilean-Swedish economist and politician

1950 – Chris Speier, American baseball player and coach

1951 – Mick Cronin, Australian rugby league player and coach

1951 – Mark Shand, English conservationist and author (d. 2014)

1951 – Lalla Ward, English actress and author

1952 – Enis Batur, Turkish poet and author

1952 – Pietro Mennea, Italian sprinter and politician (d. 2013)

1952 – Jean-Christophe Rufin, French physician and author

1954 – A. A. Gill, Scottish author and critic (d. 2016)

1954 – Alice Krige, South African actress

1954 – Deborah Grabien, American author

1955 – Eric Gates, English footballer and radio host

1956 – Amira Hass, Israeli journalist and author

1956 – Noel Mugavin, Australian footballer and coach

1957 – Lance Nethery, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1957 – Georgi Parvanov, Bulgarian historian and politician, 4th President of Bulgaria

1957 – Mike Skinner, American race car driver

1957 – Jim Spanarkel, American basketball player and sportscaster

1958 – Donna Edwards, American lawyer and politician

1958 – Félix Gray, Tunisian-French singer-songwriter

1959 – Clint Boon, English singer and keyboard player

1959 – John Shelley British illustrator

1960 – John Elway, American football player and manager

1960 – Roland Melanson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1961 – Jeff Malone, American basketball player and coach

1962 – Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu, Romanian long jumper

1962 – Artur Hajzer, Polish mountaineer (d. 2013)

1962 – Ann-Louise Skoglund, Swedish hurdler

1963 – Peter Baynham, Welsh actor, producer, and screenwriter

1963 – Charlie Clouser, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer

1964 – Mark Grace, American baseball player and sportscaster

1964 – Bernie McCahill, New Zealand rugby player

1964 – Dan Stains, Australian rugby league player and coach

1964 – Steve Williamson, English saxophonist and composer

1965 – Jessica Hecht, American actress

1965 – Tiaan Strauss, South African rugby player

1966 – Peeter Allik, Estonian painter and illustrator

1966 – Bobby Bare Jr., American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1966 – John Cusack, American actor and screenwriter

1966 – Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress

1967 – Leona Aglukkaq, Canadian politician, 7th Canadian Minister of Health

1967 – Gil Bellows, Canadian actor and producer

1967 – Zhong Huandi, Chinese runner

1967 – Lars Riedel, German discus thrower

1968 – Chayanne, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter and actor

1969 – Tichina Arnold, American actress and singer

1969 – Fabrizio Mori, Italian hurdler

1970 – Mushtaq Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer and coach

1970 – Tom Merritt, American journalist

1970 – Mike White, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

1971 – Lorenzo Amoruso, Italian footballer

1971 – Fabien Barthez, French footballer

1971 – Bobby Hurley, American basketball player and coach

1971 – Ron Mahay, American baseball player and scout

1971 – Elon Musk, South African-born American businessman

1972 – Ngô Bảo Châu, Vietnamese-French mathematician and academic

1972 – Christopher Leslie, English politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer

1972 – Alessandro Nivola, American actor

1973 – Adrián Annus, Hungarian hammer thrower

1973 – Corey Koskie, Canadian baseball player

1975 – Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish singer-songwriter, and guitarist (d. 2006)

1976 – Shinobu Asagoe, Japanese tennis player

1977 – Chris Spurling, American baseball player

1977 – Mark Stoermer, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (The Killers)

1977 – Harun Tekin, Turkish singer and guitarist

1978 – Simon Larose, Canadian tennis player

1979 – Randy McMichael, American football player

1979 – Neil Shanahan, Irish race car driver (d. 1999)

1979 – Florian Zeller, French author and playwright

1980 – Jevgeni Novikov, Estonian footballer

1981 – Savage, New Zealand rapper

1981 – Michael Crafter, Australian singer-songwriter

1981 – Guillermo Martínez, Cuban javelin thrower

1981 – Brandon Phillips, American baseball player

1982 – Ibrahim Camejo, Cuban long jumper

1985 – Phil Bardsley, English footballer

1985 – Colt Hynes, American baseball player

1986 – Kellie Pickler, American singer-songwriter

1987 – Sonata Tamošaitytė, Lithuanian hurdler

1987 – Terrence Williams, American basketball player

1989 – Jason Clark, Australian rugby league player

1989 – Andrew Fifita, Australian rugby league player

1989 – David Fifita, Australian rugby league player

1989 – Julia Zlobina, Russian-Azerbaijani figure skater

1989 – Nicole Rottmann, Austrian tennis player

1991 – Seohyun, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress

1991 – Kevin De Bruyne, Belgian footballer

1991 – Kang Min-hyuk, South Korean singer, drummer, and actor

1992 – Oscar Hiljemark, Swedish footballer

1993 – Bradley Beal, American basketball player

1996 – Donna Vekić, Croatian tennis player

1999 – Markéta Vondroušová, Czech tennis player

Deaths

202 – Yuan Shao, Chinese warlord

548 – Theodora I, Byzantine wife of Justinian I (b. 500)

572 – Alboin, Lombard king (b. 530)

683 – Pope Leo II (b. 611)

767 – Pope Paul I (b. 700)

928 – Louis the Blind, Roman emperor (b. 880)

1061 – Floris I, Count of Holland (b. 1020)

1175 – Andrey Bogolyubsky, Russian saint (b. 1111)

1189 – Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony (b. 1156)

1194 – Emperor Xiaozong of Song (b. 1127)

1385 – Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1348)

1497 – James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley (b. c. 1463)

1586 – Primož Trubar, Slovenian author and reformer (b. 1508)

1598 – Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (b. 1527)

1716 – George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (b. 1665)

1798 – John Henry Colclough, Irish revolutionary (b. ca. 1769)

1813 – Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general and politician, Prussian Minister of War (b. 1755)

1834 – Joseph Bové, Russian architect, designed the Triumphal Arch of Moscow (b. 1784)

1836 – James Madison, American academic and politician, 4th President of the United States (b. 1751)

1880 – Texas Jack Omohundro, American soldier and hunter (b. 1846)

1881 – Jules Armand Dufaure, French politician, 33rd Prime Minister of France (b. 1798)

1889 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer and academic (b. 1818)

1892 – Alexandros Rizos Rangavis, Greek poet and politician, Greek Foreign Minister (b. 1810)

1913 – Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 4th President of Brazil (b. 1841)

1914 – Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (b. 1868)

1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1863)

1915 – Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)

1917 – Ștefan Luchian, Romanian painter and educator (b. 1868)

1922 – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1885)

1929 – Edward Carpenter, English poet and philosopher (b. 1844)

1936 – Alexander Berkman, American author and activist (d. 1870)

1939 – Douglas H. Johnston, Governor of the Chickasaw Nation (b. 1856)

1944 – Friedrich Dollmann, German general (b. 1882)

1945 – Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu, Turkish journalist (d. 1879)

1960 – Jake Swirbul, American businessman, co-founded the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation (b. 1898)

1962 – Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player and manager (b. 1903)

1962 – Cy Morgan, American baseball player (b. 1878)

1965 – Red Nichols, American cornet player, bandleader, and composer (b. 1905)

1966 – Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, Turkish historian and politician, 21st Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1890)

1971 – Franz Stangl, Austrian SS officer (b. 1908)

1975 – Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis, Greek architect (b. 1913)

1975 – Rod Serling, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1924)

1978 – Clifford Dupont, English-Rhodesian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Rhodesia (b. 1905)

1980 – José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1895)

1981 – Terry Fox, Canadian runner and activist (b. 1958)

1983 – Alf Francis, German-English motor racing mechanic and racing car constructor (b. 1918)

1984 – Yigael Yadin, Israeli archaeologist, general, and politician (b. 1917)

1985 – Lynd Ward, American author and illustrator (b. 1905)

1989 – Joris Ivens, Dutch journalist, director, and producer (b. 1898)

1992 – Guy Nève, Belgian race car driver (b. 1955)

1992 – Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (b. 1936)

1995 – Petri Walli, Finnish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1969)

2000 – Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood, Canadian-English publisher and politician (b. 1913)

2000 – Nils Poppe, Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1908)

2001 – Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher and author (b. 1902)

2001 – Joan Sims, English actress (b. 1930)

2003 – Joan Lowery Nixon, American journalist and author (b. 1927)

2004 – Anthony Buckeridge, English author (b. 1912)

2005 – Matthew Axelson, American soldier and sniper (b. 1976)

2005 – Brenda Howard, American activist (b. 1946)

2005 – Michael P. Murphy, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1976)

2006 – Jim Baen, American publisher, founded Baen Books (b. 1943)

2006 – Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1919)

2006 – George Unwin, English pilot and commander (b. 1913)

2007 – Eugene B. Fluckey, American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1913)

2007 – Kiichi Miyazawa, Japanese lawyer and politician, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919)

2009 – A. K. Lohithadas, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1955)

2010 – Robert Byrd, American lawyer and politician (b. 1917)

2012 – Richard Isay, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1934)

2012 – Leontine T. Kelly, American bishop (b. 1920)

2012 – Robert Sabatier, French author and poet (b. 1923)

2012 – Doris Sams, American baseball player (b. 1927)

2013 – Ted Hood, American sailor and architect (b. 1927)

2013 – Tamás Katona, Hungarian historian and politician (b. 1932)

2013 – Kenneth Minogue, New Zealand-Australian political scientist and academic (b. 1930)

2013 – F. D. Reeve, American author and academic (b. 1928)

2013 – David Rubitsky, American sergeant (b. 1917)

2014 – Seymour Barab, American cellist and composer (b. 1921)

2014 – Jim Brosnan, American baseball player (b. 1929)

2014 – On Kawara, Japanese painter (b. 1933)

2015 – Jack Carter, American actor and comedian (b. 1922)

2015 – Jope Seniloli, Fijian politician, Vice-President of Fiji (b. 1939)

2015 – Wally Stanowski, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1919)

2016 – Pat Summitt, American women's college basketball head coach (b. 1952)

2016 – Buddy Ryan, American football coach (b. 1931)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

Blessed Maria Pia Mastena

Irenaeus of Lyon (Western Christianity)

Marcella

Paulus I

Vincenza Gerosa

June 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Constitution Day (Ukraine)

Earliest day on which Vardavar can fall, while August 1 is the latest; celebrated on the 14th weeks after Easter (Armenia)

Family Day (Vietnam)

Poznań Remembrance Day (Poland)

Vidovdan, celebrating St. Vitus and an important day in Serbian history. (Eastern Orthodox Church)

References

June 28 Wikipedia

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