SomeFacts | June 28

On this day - June 28

1098 — Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul at the ...

1360 — Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after ...

1461 — Edward, Earl of March, is crowned King Edward IV of England.

1495 — A French force heavily defeats a much larger Neapolitan and ...

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

1575 — Sengoku period of Japan: The combined forces of Oda Nobunaga ...

1635 — Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.

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

1745 — A New England colonial army captures the French fortifications ...

1776 — American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army ...

1776 — American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Sullivan's ...

1778 — American Revolutionary War: The American Continentals engage ...

1797 — French troops disembark in Corfu, beginning the French rule in ...

1807 — Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John ...

1838 — Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

1841 — The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le ...

1855 — Sigma Chi fraternity is founded in North America.

1859 — The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle upon ...

1865 — The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.

1870 — The US Congress establishes the first federal holidays (New ...

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 ...

1894 — Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.

1895 — The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James ...

1896 — An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine ...

1902 — The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing ...

1904 — The SS Norge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North ...

1911 — The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of ...

1914 — Causes of World War I: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and ...

1917 — World War I: Greece joins the Allied powers.

1919 — The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war ...

1921 — Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the ...

1922 — The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four ...

1926 — Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz ...

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

1940 — Romania cedes Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the Soviet ...

1942 — World War II: Nazi Germany starts its strategic summer ...

1945 — Poland's Soviet-allied Provisional Government of National ...

1948 — Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in ...

1948 — Cold War: The Tito–Stalin Split results in the expulsion of ...

1950 — Korean War: The Korean People's Army kills almost a ...

1950 — Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and ...

1950 — Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers (between 60,000 ...

1956 — In Poznań, workers from HCP factory go to the streets, ...

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

1969 — Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of ...

1973 — Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which ...

1976 — The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death ...

1978 — The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University ...

1981 — A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of ...

1982 — Aeroflot Flight 8641 crashes in Mazyr, Belarus, killing 132 ...

1987 — For the first time in military history, a civilian population ...

1989 — On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan ...

1997 — Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third ...

2001 — Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to ...

2004 — Iraq War: Sovereign power is handed to the interim government ...

2009 — Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military ...

2012 — The United States Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality ...

2016 — A terrorist attack in Turkey's Istanbul Atatürk Airport ...