Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index June 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 186 days remaining. Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1243 - Innocent IV becomes pope. 1519 - Charles V elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. 1635 - Guadeloupe becomes a French colony. 1651 - Battle of Beresteczko between Poles and Ukrainians, the biggest battle in the 17th century, starts. 1838 - Queen Victoria crowned. 1894 - Labor Day becomes an official US holiday. 1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophia are killed by a Serbian nationalist, the casus belli of World War I. 1919 - The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending World War I. 1936 - The puppet state of Mengjiang is formed, with Demchugdongrub as the head. 1940 - Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union. 1950 - Seoul captured by troops from North Korea. 1960 - US-owned oil refineries in Cuba confiscated and nationalised. 1967 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem. 1978 - The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke 438 US 265 1978, bars quota systems in college admissions but affirms constitutionality of programs giving advantage to minorities. 1990 - Paperback Software, a company founded by Adam Osborne, found guilty by a U.S. court of copyright violation for copying the appearance and menu system of Lotus 1-2-3 in its competing spreadsheet program. 1997 - Boxer Mike Tyson is disqualified for biting off part of the ear of his opponent Evander Holyfield. Births 1476 - Pope Paul IV 1490 - Albert of Mainz, bishop and elector of Mainz 1491 - Henry VIII, king of England (+ 1547) 1577 - Peter Paul Rubens, painter (+ 1640) 1703 - John Wesley, of Epworth, England, founder of Methodism 1712 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher (+ 1778) 1807 - Anton Philipp Reclam, publisher (+ 1895) 1831 - Joseph Joachim, violinist (+ 1907) 1867 - Luigi Pirandello, dramatist and narrator, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1934 (+ 1936) 1902 - Richard Rodgers, composer (+ 1979) 1902 - John Dillinger, gangster (+ 1934) 1906 - Paul-Emile Victor 1906 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1963 (+ 1972) 1914 - Lester Flatt, bluegrass musician (+1979) 1926 - Mel Brooks, filmmaker 1932 - Pat Morita, actor 1938 - Moy Yat, Chinese Sealmaker, Martial Artist 1946 - Gilda Radner, actress (+ 1989) 1948 - Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court judge 1948 - Kathy Bates, actress 1960 - John Elway, National Football League player 1964 - Mark Grace, Major League Baseball player Deaths 767 - Pope Paul I 1598 - Abraham Ortelius, cartographer 1836 - James Madison, president of the US 1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassination) 1975 - Rod Serling, scriptwriter, host of The Twilight Zone) 1980 - José Iturbi, musician, conductor 1981 - Terry Fox, cancer activist 1989 - Joris Ivens, filmmaker 1997 - Mrs. Miller, singer 2001 - Jack Lemmon, actor 2001 - Joan Sims, actress 2001 - Jim Ellis, co-creator of Usenet 2001 - Mortimer Adler, philosopher Holidays and observances Feast of St Irenaeus of Lyons See Also: June 27 - June 29 - May 28 - July 28 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December\n This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.