This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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                               By Scott Labrecque 
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Births:  
 
06/28/1367 Sigismund, German Emperor/king of Hungary/Bohemia 
06/28/1476 Paul IV, [Giampietro Caraffa], inquisition/Pope (1555-59) 
06/28/1490 Albert, Margrave of Brandenburg, cardinal (attacked by Luther) 
06/28/1490 Albrecht von Brandenburg, German archbishop/monarch of Mainz/cardina

06/28/1547 Cristofano Malvezzi, composer 
06/28/1550 John Drusius, Flemish hebrew translator 
06/28/1577 Peter Paul Rubens, Siegen, Flemish Baroque painter (Circumcision) 
06/28/1586 Paul Siefert, composer 
06/28/1712 Jean Jacques Rousseau, France, composer/social contractor (Confessio

06/28/1734 Jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier, composer 
06/28/1742 William Hoope, US attorney (signed Decl of Independence) 
06/28/1787 Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces 
06/28/1806 Napoleon Coste, composer 
06/28/1808 Cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess/politican 
06/28/1816 Jacob PP baron van Zuylen van N˜evelt, min of For affairs (1852-53) 
06/28/1824 Paul Broca, France, brain surgeon/anthro (located speech center) 
06/28/1824 William Tatus Wofford, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1884

06/28/1825 Richard ACE Erlenmeyer, German chemist (Erlenemyer kolf) 
06/28/1831 Joseph Joachim, Kittsee Germany, violinist (Hungarian Concerto) 
06/28/1847 Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson, composer 
06/28/1852 Hans Huber, composer 
06/28/1853 Edwin Arthur Jones, composer 
06/28/1865 Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer/journalist (Sonderbare Geschicte

06/28/1867 Luigi Pirandello, Italy, writer (6 Characters-Nobel 1934) 
06/28/1867 William Courtleigh, actor (Eyes of Youth, Madame X) 
06/28/1873 Alexis Carrel, France, surgeon/sociologist/biologist (Nobel 1912) 
06/28/1874 Oley Speaks, composer 
06/28/1879 Sigurd von Koch, composer 
06/28/1885 Giuseppe Mule, composer 
06/28/1887 Boleslav Vomacka, composer 
06/28/1889 Frank Mayo, actor (Burning Gold, Hell's Headquarters) 
06/28/1892 Edward H Carr, England, historian (History of Soviet Russia) 
06/28/1893 Luciano Gallet, composer 
06/28/1893 Nils Bjorkander, composer 
06/28/1894 Lois Wilson, Pitts Pa, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family) 
06/28/1895 Kazimierz Sikorski, composer 
06/28/1897 Jacobus J E Hondius, graphic artist 
06/28/1902 John Dillinger, US bank robber/public enemy #1 
06/28/1902 Pierre Brunet, France, figure skater pair (Olympic-gold-1928, 32) 
06/28/1902 Richard Rodgers, Hammels Station NY, composer (Rodgers & Hammerstein

06/28/1903 Alan Bunce, Westfield NJ, actor (Albert-Ethel & Albert) 
06/28/1904 Wlodzimierz Pozniak, composer 
06/28/1906 Maria Goeppert Mayer, US atomic physicist (Nobel 1963) 
06/28/1906 Safford Cape, composer 
06/28/1908 James L Reinsch, media-adviser (Roosevelt/Churchill/Kennedy) 
06/28/1909 Arnold Shaw, composer 
06/28/1909 Eric Ambler, detective writer (Epitaph for a Spy) 
06/28/1909 French van Immerseel, Belgian graphic artist 
06/28/1912 Carl F von Weisz„cker, German physicist/philosopher 
06/28/1913 George Walter Selwyn Lloyd, English composer (Serf, John Socman) 
06/28/1914 Charles Urbanus, baseball player 
06/28/1917 Willem 'Wim' Sonneveld, singer/actor (My Fair Lady) 
06/28/1918 Bert Schierbeek, [Lambertus], writer/poet (Cross Roads) 
06/28/1921 PV Narasimha Rao, premier of India (1991-  ) 
06/28/1923 Lloyd Labeach, Panama City, 100m/200m runner (Olympic-bronze-1948) 
06/28/1924 Henk van Stiprian, radio host 
06/28/1925 Giselher W Kleber, German (opera)composer (That R„uber) 
06/28/1926 Mel Brooks, NYC, comedian/actor/director (Blazing Saddles, Spaceball

06/28/1927 Theo van Tijn, Dutch marxist/social-historian 
06/28/1930 Nikolay Nikolayevich Karetnikov, composer 
06/28/1933 Gunnar Reynir Sveinsson, composer 
06/28/1934 Carl M Levin, (Sen-D Michigan, 1979-  ) 
06/28/1936 Bill Orton, (Rep-R-UT, 1983-  ) 
06/28/1936 Major R Owens, (Rep-D-NY) 
06/28/1938 Leon E Panetta, (Rep-D-CA, 1977-  ) 
06/28/1942 'Chris' Martin Thembisile Hani, sec-gen (S Africa Communist Party) 
06/28/1942 Jim Kolbe, (Rep-R-AZ, 1985-  ) 
06/28/1942 Sjoukje D˜kstra, Holland, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1964) 
06/28/1943 Ed Pastor, (Rep-D-Arizona) 
06/28/1945 David Knights, bassist (Pocol Harum) 
06/28/1945 Jane Harmon, (Rep-D-California) 
06/28/1946 Bruce Davison, actor (Willard, High Risk) 
06/28/1946 Gilda Radner, Detroit Mich, actor (SNL, Haunted Honeymoon, Gilda Liv

06/28/1946 John 'Mike' Lounge, Denver Colo, astr (STS 51-I, STS 26, STS 35) 
06/28/1946 Robert L Asprin, US, sci-fi writer (Thieves World, Cold Cash War) 
06/28/1946 Robert Xavier Rodriguez, composer 
06/28/1947 Mark Helprin, US writer 
06/28/1947 Patrick Kincaid, who wrote the TODAY program; send him a card 
06/28/1948 Kathy Bates, academy award winning actress (Misery) 
06/28/1949 Don Baylor, Texas, baseball player (1979 AL RBI leader) 
06/28/1954 Alice Krige, actress (Chariots of Fire, Sleepwalkers, Ladykiller) 
06/28/1954 Ava Barber, Knoxville Tn, country singer (Lawrence Welk Show) 
06/28/1955 Nikolai Simyatov, USSR, nordic skier (Olympic-3 golds-1976) 
06/28/1958 Sergei Shakrai, USSR, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1980) 
06/28/1960 John Elway, NFL QB (Denver Broncos) 
06/28/1961 Jay Schroeder, NFL quarterback (Wash Redskins, LA Raiders) 
06/28/1961 Jeff Malone, NBA guard (Washington Bullets) 
06/28/1962 Anisoara Stanciu-Cusmir, Romania, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1984) 
06/28/1963 Andy Cousin, rocker (All About Eve-All About Scarlet & Other Stories

06/28/1966 John Cusak, actor (Stand By Me, Sure Thing, Better Off Dead) 
06/28/1966 Mary Stuart Masterson, Houston Tx, actress (Some Kind of Wonderful) 
06/28/1969 Danielle Brisebois, Bkln NY, actress (Archie's Place, Big Bad Mama 2

06/28/1969 Tichina Arnold, NYC, actress (Ryan's Hope, Sharla-All My Children) 
06/28/1970 Jack Stephen Burton, actor (Chris-Out of this World, Days of Our Lif

06/28/1970 Steve Burton, Indianapolis Ind, actor (Jason-General Hospital) 
06/28/1971 Aileen Quinn, actress (Annie) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
06/28/ 548 Theodora, dancer/empress of Byzantine (Nika-oproer), dies 
06/28/ 573 Alboin, king of Longobarden, probably poisoned by his wife 
06/28/ 767 Paul I, [Paolo Orsini?], Italian Pope (757-67), dies 
06/28/1061 Floris I, count of Holland, dies 
06/28/1385 Andronicus IV Paleologus, Byzantine anti-emperor, dies 
06/28/1598 Abraham Ortelius, [Ortels/Hortels], South Neth geographer, dies at 7

06/28/1617 Johan Evertsen de Captain, Swiss admiral, dies in battle 
06/28/1714 Cornelis Chastelein, colonial director, dies at 56 
06/28/1714 Daniel van Papenbroeck, Flemish jesuit/historian, dies at 86 
06/28/1742 Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner, composer, dies at 52 
06/28/1748 Marretje Arends, [Matje of Nieuwendijk], Amsterdam plunderer, hanged

06/28/1748 Pieter van Dort, Amsterdam plunderer, hanged 
06/28/1776 Thomas Hickey, American sergeant convicted of treason, hanged 
06/28/1788 Johann Christoph Vogel, composer, dies at 32 
06/28/1798 Pierre Dutillieu, composer, dies at 44 
06/28/1806 Johann Friedrich Ludwig Sievers, composer, dies at 64 
06/28/1813 Gerhard JD von Scharnhorst, Prus min of War (1807-10), dies in battl

06/28/1836 James Madison, 4th US pres (1809-17), dies in Montpelier Va at 85 
06/28/1846 Adrian van de Ende, vicar/protestant reformer, dies at 77 
06/28/1855 Giovanni Agostino Perotti, composer, dies at 86 
06/28/1857 Joseph Fischhof, composer, dies at 53 
06/28/1872 Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch, composer, dies at 66 
06/28/1876 August W Ambros, Austria musicologist, dies at 59 
06/28/1889 Maria Mitchell, 1st US woman astronomer (Vassar), dies at 71 
06/28/1890 Edouard Gregoir, composer, dies at 67 
06/28/1891 Jose Inzenga y Castellanos, composer, dies at 63 
06/28/1909 Israel Durham, Phillies president dies 
06/28/1910 Gustave Leon Huberti, composer, dies at 67 
06/28/1912 Josef V Sl dek, Czech poet (Za soumraku), dies at 66 
06/28/1914 Franz Ferdinand, Austrian archduke (Sarajevo, Bosnia), assassinated 
06/28/1914 Sophie, Princess of Austria, assassinated 
06/28/1937 Max Adler, Austrian socialist theorist, dies at 64 
06/28/1940 Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/gov-gen of Libya, dies at 44 
06/28/1946 Eduard Veterman, Dutch painter/playwright, dies in an auto accident 
06/28/1950 Henry Balfour Gardiner, composer, dies at 72 
06/28/1954 Red deer, dies in Milwaukee Zoo at 26; oldest known deer 
06/28/1957 Alfred D”blin, German/French author/co-founder (Sturm), dies at 78 
06/28/1957 Ede Poldini, composer, dies at 88 
06/28/1958 Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist (Robin Hood), dies 
06/28/1962 Mickey Cochrane, baseball hall of fame catcher, dies at 59 
06/28/1963 Frank 'Home Run' Baker, (hit 2 HRs in 1911 world series) dies at 77 
06/28/1964 King Calder, actor (Lt Grey-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 64 
06/28/1971 Henri Puvrez, Belgian sculptor (Serenity), dies at 78 
06/28/1971 Joseph Colombo, mobster, shot dead at 48 
06/28/1974 Frank Sutton, actor (Sgt Carter-Gomer Pyle USMC), dies at 55 
06/28/1975 Rod Serling, writer/host (Twilight Zone, Night Gallery), dies at 60 
06/28/1976 Stanley Baker, actor (Accident, Guns of Navarone), dies at 49 
06/28/1979 Paul Dessau, composer, dies at 84 
06/28/1980 Heal Gahagan Douglas, (Rep-D-Ca), lost to Nixon, dies at 79 
06/28/1980 Herbie Faye, comedian (Doc, Phil Silvers Show), dies at 81 
06/28/1980 Jos‚ Iturbi, Spanish/US pianist (Peque¤a danza Espa¤ola, dies at 84 
06/28/1980 Yoshiro Irino, composer, dies at 58 
06/28/1981 Peter Paul Kreuder, composer, dies at 75 
06/28/1982 Gerard(us M) Rutten, director (Sterren stralen overal), dies 
06/28/1982 Harry Mills, US, singer (Mills Brothers), dies at 70 
06/28/1985 James Craig, actor (Human Comedy, Kismet), dies of lung cancer at 74

06/28/1988 Kurt Raab, writer/actor (Boarding School, Stationmaster's Wife), die

06/28/1989 Joris Ivens, director (Indonesia), dies at 90 
06/28/1990 Estelle Lamont, entertainer, dies 
06/28/1991 Klas Bruinsma, Clergyman, dies 
06/28/1992 Mikhail Tai, World chess champion (1960-61), dies at 55 
06/28/1993 Boris Christoff, Bulgaria/Italian bass (Don Carlos), dies at 79 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
06/28/ 767 St Paul I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 
06/28/1119 Battle of Sarmada - Emir Ilghazi defeats Frank Crusaders 
06/28/1245 1st Council of Lyons (13th ecumenical council) opens 
06/28/1461 Edward IV crowned king of England 
06/28/1519 King Carlos I elected Roman Catholic German emperor Charles V 
06/28/1575 Spanish troops conquer Buren 
06/28/1583 Duke French van Valois returns to France 
06/28/1593 Earl Mauritius conquerors Geertruidenberg 
06/28/1629 Peace of AlŠs: Rights of French huguenots limited 
06/28/1635 French colony of Guadeloupe established in Caribbean 
06/28/1675 Battle at Fehrbellin: Brandenburgs army beats Sweden 
06/28/1748 Riot after public execution in Amsterdam, 200+ killed 
06/28/1770 Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia 
06/28/1776 Charleston, SC repulses British sea attack 
06/28/1778 Battle of Monmouth, NJ (Gen Washington beats Clinton) 
06/28/1778 Mary Ludwig Hayes 'Molly Pitcher' aids American patriots 
06/28/1807 British troops lands at Ensenada, Argentina 
06/28/1820 Tomato is proven non-poisonous 
06/28/1832 Gerrit Moll measures noise of guns 
06/28/1838 Britain's Queen Victoria crowned in Westminster Abbey 
06/28/1859 1st dog show held (Newcastle-on-Tyne, England) 
06/28/1861 Leipzig Observatory discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) Comet d'Arrest 
06/28/1862 Day 4 of 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station/Garnett's Farm, VA 
06/28/1869 Amsterdam typographer strike 
06/28/1874 Freedmen's Bank closes 
06/28/1886 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #259 Aletheia 
06/28/1887 Phillies most lopsided shut-out beating Indianapolis 24-0 
06/28/1892 Phillies tie club record of 16 straight victories 
06/28/1894 Labor Day established as a federal employees holiday 
06/28/1902 Congress authorizes Louisiana Purchase Expo $1 gold coin 
06/28/1904 International Anti-Military Cooperation (IAMV) forms in Amsterdam 
06/28/1905 Russian sailors mutiny aboard battleship 'Potemkin' 
06/28/1909 1st French air show, Concours d'Avation opens 
06/28/1911 Joseph Caillaux forms govt in France 
06/28/1914 Austria invades Siberia (WW I) 
06/28/1917 Potato entrepreneurs begins in Amsterdam 
06/28/1918 1st flight between Hawaiian Islands 
06/28/1919 Carl Mazes pitches a complete double-header against Yanks 
06/28/1919 Harry S Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence 
06/28/1919 Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed 
06/28/1923 Dodgers lost 7-0 lead, as Philles score 8 in bottom of 9th 
06/28/1923 Queen Wilhelmina & Prince Henry for state visit to London 
06/28/1924 Tornado strikes Sandusky Ohio & Lorain Ohio, killing 93 
06/28/1928 Alfred E Smith (NY-Gov) nominated for president at Dem Convention 
06/28/1928 Friedrich Schmiedl attempted rocket mail in Austria (unsuccessful) 
06/28/1934 Hitler flies to Essen (Night of Long Knifes) 
06/28/1938 Queen Victoria ascends to British throne 
06/28/1939 Joe Louis KOs Tony Galento to retain heavyweight title 
06/28/1939 Pan Am opens southern route transatlantic air service (Dixie Clipper

06/28/1939 Yanks hit 13 HRs, sweep A's 23-2 & 10-0 
06/28/1940 'Quiz Kids?' premieres on radio 
06/28/1940 Romania cedes Bessarabia to Soviet Union 
06/28/1942 Dumont TV network begins (WABD NY) 
06/28/1945 Polish Provisional Govt of National Unity set up by Soviets 
06/28/1946 Enrico de Nicola becomes 1st pres of Italy 
06/28/1948 US/British airlift to West-Berlin begins 
06/28/1950 North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea [or 1/4/1951?] 
06/28/1951 'Amos 'n' Andy' premieres on CBS TV 
06/28/1954 111øF (44øC) at Camden, South Carolina (state record) 
06/28/1956 1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago Ill 
06/28/1956 Riots break out in Poznan Poland, 38 die 
06/28/1958 Brazil becomes world soccer champ in Sweden 
06/28/1958 Nancy Ramey swims world record 100m (1:09.6) 
06/28/1960 10.40' (26.42 cm) of rainfall, Dunmor, Kentucky (state 24-hour recor

06/28/1961 Phils & SF set then record longest night game (5h11m) 7-7 15 inn tie

06/28/1962 Thalidomide drug banned in Netherlands 
06/28/1963 Belaunde Terry inaugrated as pres of Peru 
06/28/1963 Khrushchev visits East-Berlin 
06/28/1964 Organization for Afo-American Unity forms in NY by Malcolm X 
06/28/1965 1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by Pres Johnson 
06/28/1965 A R Klemola discovers asteroid #2179 Platzeck 
06/28/1965 Princess Beatrice & Claus von Amsberg announce engagement 
06/28/1967 George Harrison is fined œ6 for speeding 
06/28/1967 Israel annexes East-Jerusalem 
06/28/1968 Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers 
06/28/1971 Fillmore East closes 
06/28/1971 Phillies' Rick Wise hits 2 HRs & no-hits Reds 
06/28/1971 Supreme Court (8-0) overturns draft evasion conviction of Muhammad A

06/28/1971 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #3093 
06/28/1973 Lawsuit in Detroit challenges Little League's 'no girls' rule 
06/28/1974 Fall of earth & rocks kill 200. (Quebrada Blanca Canyon, Columbia) 
06/28/1974 Wings release 'Band on the Run' & 'Zoo Gang' in UK 
06/28/1975 David Bowie releases 'Fame' 
06/28/1975 Golfer Lee Trevino is struck by lightning at Western Open (Ill) 
06/28/1976 Hijacked French Airbus lands in Entebbe, Uganda 
06/28/1977 Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers 
06/28/1978 UNICEF chooses rock group Kansas as ambassadors of goodwill 
06/28/1979 OPEC raises oil prices 24% 
06/28/1980 NYC transit fare rises from 50› to 60› 
06/28/1981 74 government officials die in attack in Iran 
06/28/1982 Prince Chuck & Lady Di name their baby 'William' 
06/28/1983 Bridge section along I-95 in Greenwich, Ct collapsed kills 3 
06/28/1983 NASA launches Galaxy-A 
06/28/1985 Discovery ferried back to Kennedy Space Center via Bergstrom AFB, Tx

06/28/1986 Irish population condemns divorce 
06/28/1986 Kenneth & Nellie Pike challenge Ala Dem runoff win by AG C Graddick 
06/28/1987 Don Baylor sets career hit-by-pitch mark at 244 (Pitcher Rick Rhoden

06/28/1987 E F Helin discovers asteroid #3680 Sasha 
06/28/1988 Mike Tyson sues to break contract with manager Bill Cayton 
06/28/1990 17th annual Daytime Emmy Awards 
06/28/1992 Burharnuddin Rabbani becomes president of Afghanistan 
06/28/1992 Italians govt of Amato forms 
06/28/1992 Pres Bush's daughter Dorothy marries Bobby Koch 
06/28/1992 US Dream Team beats Cuba in 1st exhibition basketball game, 133-57 
06/28/1993 NCRV shows last 'Cheers' in Neth 
06/28/1994 NY Met Pitcher Dwight Gooden suspended for 60 days due to drug charg

  
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