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June 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 186 days remaining until the end of the year.

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 in a ceremony by Proxy 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.
2013 – Hagia Sophia Mosque in Trabzon was reopened for worship after 49 years.
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

751 – Carloman I, King of the Franks (d. 771)
1243 – Go-Fukakusa, 89th emperor of Japan in the traditional succession order (d. 1304)
1476 – IV. Paulus, pope from 23 May 1555 to 18 August 1559 (d. 1559)
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)
1818 – Angelo Secchi, Italian Jesuit and astronomer (d. 1878)
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)
1902 – Richard Rodgers, American composer, songwriter, and playwright (d. 1979)
1906 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German-American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (d. 1972)
1912 – Sherwood Rowland, American professor of chemistry (d. 1927)
1914 - Aribert Heim, Nazi-German doctor of Austrian descent (d. 1992)
1918 – William Whitelaw, British politician (d. 1999)
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 (d. 2022)
1955 – Thomas Hampson, Grammy Award-winning American baritone
1957 – Georgi Parvanov, Bulgarian politician and Prime Minister
1961 – Kerem Görsev, Turkish musician
1963 – Mike Fitzpatrick, American lawyer and politician (d. 2020)
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
1991 – Seohyun, South Korean actress, singer and dancer
1992 – Oscar Hiljemark, Swedish football player
1992 – Elaine Thompson-Herah, Jamaican athlete
1993 – Bradley Beal, American basketball player
1993 – Anastasios Bakasetas, Greek national football player
1994 – Hussein bin Abdullah, heir apparent to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, King of Jordan II. He is the eldest son of Abdullah and queen Rania al Abdullah
1994
- Anish Giri, Russian-Dutch chess player
- Emily Blue, American electropop singer and lead singer of indie rock band Tara Terra
- Kira Trusova, Russian handball player
- Alessio Cragno, Italian football player
- Hussein bin Abdullah, heir apparent to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
1995 – Jason Denayer, Belgian football player
1997 – Biran Damla Yılmaz, Turkish cinema and TV series actress

Deaths

207 – Yuan Shao, politician and warlord in China during the Eastern Han Dynasty (b. ?)
548 – Theodora, Byzantine Empress and wife of Justinian I (b. 500)
683 – II. Leo, alias Leo Maneius, was Pope from 17 August 682 to 28 June 683 (b. 611)
767 – Paul I (Saint Paulus), religious leader of the Catholic Church (Pope) (b. 700)
1196 – Xiaozong, 11th emperor of China's Song Dynasty (b. 1127)
1385 – IV. Andronikos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1348)
1389 – Murad I, 3rd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1326)
1598 – Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (b. 1527)
1757 – Sophia Dorothea, Queen of Prussia as consort of Frederick William (b. 1687)
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)
1881 – Jules Armand Dufaure, French politician (b. 1798)
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)
2021 – Paul Koulak, French composer and musician (b. 1943)
2022 – Cüneyt Arkın, real name Fahrettin Cüreklibatır, Turkish doctor, TV series, cinema, theater actor, screenwriter, producer and director (b. 1937)
2022 – Deborah James, British journalist, podcaster, and charity (b. 1981)
2022 – Sergey Korepanov, Soviet-Russian politician (b. 1948)
2022 – Ryuzo Sasaki, Japanese politician (b. 1956)
2022 – Rolf Skoglund, Swedish actor (b. 1940)

Holidays and special occasions

Constitution Day in Ukraine