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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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