June 28 is the 179nd day of the year (180rd in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 186.
Railways
- 28 June 1855 The Ottoman Empire borrowed for the first time. 4 million British gold loans were received from the UK and France with 1 percent interest rate and 5 percent depreciation. 14 percent of this loan was spent on railway investments.
- With the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919, all rights in Germany's Baghdad Railway were lifted. However, during the war, German companies transferred their shares to a Swiss company.
- 28 June 1942 Agreements have been signed with the German group for the delivery of railway equipment.
- 28 June 1943 Diyarbakır-Batman line (91 km and 520 m. Bridge) was opened with a ceremony by Attorney Secret Day.
Events
- 1389 – First Battle of Kosovo: The battle between the Ottoman Army led by Murad I and the multinational Balkan Army led by Serbian Commander Lazar Hrebelyanovic resulted in the victory of the Ottoman Army.
- 1763 – A 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck Komárom, Hungary.
- 1838 - Victoria I crowned the United Kingdom at the age of 18. The Queen acceded to the throne on 20 June.
- 1841 - Giselle The ballet premiered for the first time at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris.
- 1862 – Tasviri Efkar newspaper was started to be published by Şinasi.
- 1894 - Labor Day is recognized as a public holiday in the United States.
- 1895 - El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua unite to form the "Central American Union".
- 1914 – World War I begins after the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophia are killed by a Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip.
- 1919 – At the end of World War I, the Versailles Peace Treaty was signed between the Entente Powers and Germany.
- 1921 - Kocaeli was taken from the British and Greek troops and rejoined Turkish lands.
- 1923 – Darülfünun sent “Honorary Professorship Certificate” to Mustafa Kemal.
- 1928 - Socialist Hermann Müller takes office as Chancellor of Germany.
- 1931 – Socialists win the general elections in Spain.
- 1933 – The High Council for the Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage was established.
- 1938 – A 450-ton meteorite fell on an empty field in Chicora, Pennsylvania.
- 1940 - Romania ceded the region of Basarabia (present-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
- 1948 – The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was expelled from the Cominform, which formed the Communist Bloc.
- 1950 - Seoul is captured by North Korean troops.
- 1967 - Israel captured East Jerusalem.
- 1969 - Stonewall riots begin.
- 1981 – A bomb explodes at the headquarters of the Islamic Republican Party in Tehran; 72 politicians and officials died.
- 1984 – Martial law was lifted in 13 provinces in Turkey. A state of emergency was declared in 7 of these provinces; The state of emergency, which was being implemented in 4 provinces, was ended.
- 1989 – Natanz Incident: Natanz Atomic Factory in Iran fell into ruins with an explosion.
- 1997 – Mike Tyson bit his opponent Evander Holyfield in the ear in the third round of a boxing match and was disqualified.
- 2000 – The United States decided to soften the embargo against Cuba, which it has been applying for 41 years.
- 2004 – The 17th NATO Summit started in Istanbul.
- 2005 - Canada becomes the third country to legalize same-sex marriage.
- 2006 – Montenegro was admitted to the United Nations as the 192nd member state.
- 2009 – Brazil won the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup.
- 2011 – Google announces its new social networking project Google+.
- 2011 – CHP and BDP supported independents did not take the oath in the first session and swearing-in ceremony of the 24th term in the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
- 2016 – An armed and bombed suicide attack was carried out at the Atatürk Airport International Terminal in Istanbul. As a result of the attack, 45 people lost their lives, including the suicide attackers, and 239 were injured.
Births
- 1491 – VIII. Henry, King of England (d. 1547)
- 1577 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (d. 1640)
- 1703 – John Wesley, English priest and founder of Methodism (d. 1791)
- 1712 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (d. 1778)
- 1824 – Paul Broca, French physician, anatomist, and anthropologist (d. 1880)
- 1867 – Lightner Witmer, American psychologist (d. 1956)
- 1867 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist and novelist (d. 1936)
- 1873 – Alexis Carrel, French physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1944)
- 1875 – Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (d. 1941)
- 1883 – Pierre Laval, French politician (d. 1945)
- 1889 – Abbas al-Akkad, Egyptian journalist, poet, and literary critic (d. 1964)
- 1891 – Carl Spaatz, American aviator general and first Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force (d. 1974)
- 1892 – Edward Halett Carr, English historian and author (d. 1982)
- 1906 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German-American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (d. 1972)
- 1912 – Sherwood Rowland, American professor of chemistry (d. 1927)
- 1926 – Mel Brooks, American actor, writer, and director
- 1928 – John Stewart Bell, Northern Irish physicist (d. 1990)
- 1928 – Hans Blix, Swedish former president of the International Atomic Energy Agency
- 1932 – Pat Morita, Japanese-American film actor (d. 2005)
- 1934 – Georges Wolinsky, French cartoonist and comic book cartoonist (d. 2015)
- 1936 – Belgin Doruk, Turkish film actress (d. 1995)
- 1940 – Mohammed Yunus, Bangladeshi banker and professor of economics and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- 1941 – David Lloyd Johnston, Canadian academic writer
- 1943 – Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist
- 1944 – Sohrab Shahid Sales, Iranian director (d. 1998)
- 1945 – Nazlı Eray, Turkish storyteller and novelist
- 1945 – Türkan Şoray, Turkish actor
- 1946 – Bruce Davison, American actor and director
- 1946 – Gilda Radner, American actress (d. 1989)
- 1948 - Kathy Bates, American actress and Oscar winner
- 1952 – Enis Batur, Turkish poet
- 1952 – Jean-Christophe Rufin, French writer
- 1955 – Civan Canova, Turkish theater, cinema, TV series actor and playwright
- 1955 – Thomas Hampson, Grammy Award-winning American baritone
- 1957 – Georgi Parvanov, Bulgarian politician and Prime Minister
- 1961 – Kerem Görsev, Turkish musician
- 1964 – Sabrina Ferilli, Italian theater and film actress and television presenter
- 1966 – John Cusack, American actor
- 1966 – Şenay Gürler, Turkish theater and film actor
- 1966 – Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress
- 1969 – Stéphane Chapuisat, Swiss former football player
- 1969 – Ayelet Zurer, Israeli actress
- 1971 - Fabien Barthez, Retired French goalkeeper
- 1971 – No ID, American record producer
- 1971 - Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX Space Company
- 1974 – Yiğit Arı, Turkish actor
- 1976 – Hans Sarpei, Ghanaian football player
- 1976 – Ali İhsan Varol, Turkish presenter
- 1977 – Harun Tekin, Turkish musician and lead singer of Mor ve Ötesi
- 1980 – Maurizio Domizzi, Italian football player
- 1981 – Mara Santangelo, Italian tennis player
- 1983 – Dorge Kouemaha, Cameroonian football player
- 1984 – Andriy Pyatov, Ukrainian goalkeeper
- 1987 - Karin Knapp, Italian tennis player
- 1991 – Kevin De Bruyne, Belgian football player
- Seohyun, South Korean actress, singer and dancer
- 1992 – Oscar Hiljemark, Swedish football player
- Elaine Thompson-Herah, Jamaican athlete
- 1993 – Bradley Beal, American basketball player
- 1994 – Anish Giri, Russian-Dutch chess player
- 1995 – Jason Denayer, Belgian football player
- 1997 – Biran Damla Yılmaz, Turkish cinema and TV series actress
Deaths
- 548 – Theodora, Byzantine Empress and wife of Justinian I (b. 500)
- 767 – Paul I (Saint Paulus), religious leader of the Catholic Church (Pope) (b. 700)
- 1385 – IV. Andronikos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1348)
- 1389 – Murad I, 3rd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1326)
- 1813 – Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Hanoverian general and first Prussian Chief of Staff (b. 1755)
- 1836 – James Madison, 4th President of the United States (b. 1751)
- 1885 – Hacı Arif Bey, Turkish lyricist and musician (b. 1831)
- 1889 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (b. 1818)
- 1892 – Harry Atkinson, New Zealand politician (b. 1831)
- 1913 – Campos Sales, Brazilian lawyer, coffee farmer, and politician (b. 1841)
- 1914 – Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1863)
- 1914 – Sophie Chotek, wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1868)
- 1936 – Alexander Berkman, American author, radical anarchist, and activist (b. 1870)
- 1937 – Max Adler, Austrian marxist lawyer, sociologist, and socialist theorist (b. 1873)
- 1940 – Italo Balbo, Italian Fascist (b. 1896)
- 1942 – Yanka Kupala, Belarusian poet and writer (b. 1882)
- 1944 – Friedrich Dollmann, general of Nazi Germany (b. 1882)
- 1945 – Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu, Turkish journalist, politician and Cumhuriyet newspaperfounder of (b. 1879)
- 1966 – Fuad Köprülü, Turkish history professor and Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1890)
- 1971 – Franz Stangl, II. Commander of Sobibor Extermination Camp and Treblinka Extermination Camp in World War II Nazi Germany (b. 1908)
- 1974 – Frank Sutton, American actor (b. 1923)
- 1976 – Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and filmmaker (b. 1928)
- 1981 – Mohammed Beheshti, Iranian religious scholar and author, co-founder of the Islamic revolution (b. 1928)
- 1989 – Joris Ivens, Dutch documentary filmmaker and director (b. 1898)
- 1992 – Mikhail Tal, Soviet World Chess Champion (b. 1936)
- 2000 – Cinuçen Tanrıkorur, Turkish musician (b. 1938)
- 2007 – Erdoğan Tünaş, Turkish screenwriter, writer and filmmaker (b. 1935)
- 2007 – Zehra Bilir, Turkish singer (b. 1913)
- 2007 – Kiichi Miyazawa, Japanese politician who served as the 1991th prime minister of Japan from 1993-49 (b. 1919)
- 2008 – Ruslana Korshunova, Russian-born Kazakh model and model (b. 1987)
- 2009 – Billy Mays, American comedian, actor, and voice actor (b. 1958)
- 2011 – Paul Bağdatlıyan, Armenian-born singer, musician and composer (b. 1953)
- 2013 – Silvi Vrait, Estonian singer (b. 1951)
- 2014 – Meshach Taylor, American actress (b. 1947)
- 2015 – Jack Carter, American comedian, actor, and presenter (b. 1923)
- 2016 – Maurice Cazeneuve, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1923)
- 2016 – Scotty Moore, American guitarist (b. 1931)
- 2016 – Fabiane Niclotti in 2004 Miss Brazil former model selected as the most beautiful (b. 1984)
- 2018 – Denis Akiyama, Japanese-Canadian actor and voice actor (b. 1952)
- 2018 – Harlan Ellison, Award-winning American author and screenwriter of short stories, novels, telephone dialogue, essays, and criticism (b. 1934)
- 2018 – Domenico Losurdo, Italian Marxist philosopher and historian (b. 1941)
- 2018 – Christine Nöstlinger, Austrian author of children's and youth books (b. 1936)
- 2018 – Şarık Tara, Turkish civil engineer and businessman (b. 1930)
- 2019 – Paul Benjamin, American actor (b. 1938)
- 2019 – Şükrü Birant, Former Turkish national football player (b. 1944)
- 2019 – Lisa Martinek, German actress (b. 1972)
- 2020 – Nasir Ajanah, Nigerian Judge (b. 1956)
- 2020 – Marián Čišovský, Slovak national football player (b. 1979)
- 2020 – Mimi Soltysik, American socialist politician and political activist (b. 1974)
- 2020 – Yu Lan, Chinese theater, film and television actor (b. 1921)
Holidays and special occasions
- Constitution Day in Ukraine
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