June 28th
Holidays and Festivals
Gay & Lesbian Parade Day
Log Cabin Day
Special Recreation Day for The Disabled
America's Kids Day
Descendants Day
Perfect Number Day * (see below)
St Peter's-tide (Cornwall, UK), also known as Porthleven Petertide and the Mevagissey feast.
Penzance, the Golowan Festival (Cornwall, UK), also known as Penzance Golowan June 23rd through 28th.
Insurance Awareness Day
Christian Feast Day of Benignus
Christian Feast Day of Irenaeus of Lyon (Roman Catholic)
Christian Feast Day of Marcella
Christian Feast Day of Paulus I
Christian Feast Day of Vincenza Gerosa
Christian Feast Day of Vidovdan, celebrating St. Vitus (Eastern Orthodox Church)
In common years it is always in ISO week 26.
* Glastonbury Festival England - End of June (5-5)
* Perfect Number Day - This date is the only date each year where both the month and day are different perfect numbers, June 6 being the only date where the month and day are the same perfect number.
Fête de la Faucille Translation: Sickle Day (French Republican) The 10th day of the Month of Messidor in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Here's to wives and sweethearts!
May they never, never meet."
- Anonymous
Drink of The Day
Paradise
7 parts Gin
4 parts Apricot Brandy
3 parts Orange Juice
Shake together over ice. Strain into cocktail glass and serve chilled.
Wine of The Day
Dunham (2006) Syrah
Style - Syrah
Columbia Valley
$40
Beer of The Day
Bachelor Bitter
Brewer - Deschutes Brewery Bend, OR
Style - Special Bitter
Joke of The Day
Easy steps to poo like a man ...
1. Select reading material
2. Tell everyone along the way, 'Just going for a dump, okay?' Always tell girlfriend/wife, especially when she has visitors.
3. Pull pants and trousers around ankles, then sit down.
4. Adjust penis and testicles to hang comfortably without touching the toilet rim.
5. Open reading material and relax.
6. Whilst waiting, it is traditional to audibly fart.
7. Sigh loudly as the first one bullets out. It is quite normal to experience a cold jet of water rocket up your anus as a result of the first bomb. This is to be endured if you want to be a real man.
8. Remain sitting and reading until pins-and-needles set in to your legs and buttocks.
9. Rise and look at the poo. Make mental notes of irregularities to report to friends and girlfriend/wife, e.g. colour, consistency, any visible traces of peanuts etc. You must tell people about it.
10. Take long length of paper and wipe anus. You must look at the paper before throwing it into the pan.
11. Repeat step 10 until there is no longer any evidence of faeces on the paper.
12. Flush. If there is any residue left on the pan, under no circumstances attempt to clean it off. In due course, it will come away by itself. Or, when your girlfriend/wife next uses the loo.
13. Leave the seat up. Leave the reading material on the floor (you can use it again later).
14. Wash your hands once.
15. Vacate the bathroom, leaving the door open. It is important to a man's self-esteem that other people smell his produce.?
Quote of The Day
"Is forbidden to steal hotel towels please. If you are not a person to do such thing is please not to read notis."
- Actual Sign in a Tokyo Hotel
June Observances
African-American Music Appreciation Month
Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome Awareness Month
Aquarium Month
Audio Book Appreciation Month
Beautiful in Your Skin Month
Black Music Month
Cancer From The Sun Month
Cataract Awareness Month
Celibacy Awareness Month
Child Vision Awareness Month
Children's Awareness Month
Corn and Cucumber Month
Country Cooking Month
Dairy Alternatives Month
Dairy Month
Effective Communications Month
Entrepreneurs "Do It Yourself" Marketing Month
Fight the Filthy Fly Month
Fireworks Safety Month
Gay and Lesbian Pride Month
Great Outdoors Month
Home Safety Month
International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
International Men's Month
International Surf Music Month
Lane Courtesy Month
Lemon and Mango Month
National Accordion Awareness Month
National Adopt a Cat Month
National Aphasia Awareness Month
National Bathroom Reading Month
National Camping Month
National Candy Month
National Caribbean-American Heritage Month
National Family Month
National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month
National Fruit and Veggies Month (Also September)
National GLBT (Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual & Transgender) Awareness Month
National GLBT (Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual & Transgender) Book Month
National Ice Tea Month
National Lady Lawyers Month
National Migraine Awareness Month
National Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month
National R.O.S.E. Month
National Rescue a Cat Month
National Rivers Month
National Safety Month
National Smile Month
National Soul Food Month
National Steakhouse Month
National Student Safety Month
National Tire Safety Month
Okra & Pluot and Aprium Month
Perennial Gardening Month
Pharmacists Declare War on Alcoholism Month
Potty Training Awareness Month
Professional Wellness Month
Rebuild Your Life Month
Skyscraper Month
Sports America Kids Month
Student Safety Month
Turkey Lovers' Month
Vision Research Month
Women's Golf Month
World Infertility Month
World Naked Bike Ride Month (Northern Hemisphere)
Observances this Week
Lightning Safety Awareness Week, Last Full Week in June
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week, Last Full Week in June
National Mosquito Control Awareness Week, Week of June 26th
Appreciate Your Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling Professionals Week, Fourth Week in June
Water Ski Days, Last Full Weekend in June
Watermelon Seed Spitting Week, Last Weekend Thursday to Sunday in June
Eye Safety Awareness Week, Last Week in June
Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week, Last Week in June
National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness, June 27th through July 4th
Historical Events on June 28th
767 St Paul I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1098 Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
1119 Battle of Sarmada Emir Ilghazi defeat French Crusaders
1245 1st Council of Lyons (13th ecumenical council) opens
1389 Ottomans defeat Serbian army in the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe (see Vidovdan).
1461 Edward IV crowned king of England
1485 Gent/Brugge/Ieper recognize Maximilian of Austria as regent of Neth
1519 Charles V (Carlos I) elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1524 Duke van Bourbon occupies Province
1575 Spanish troops conquer Buren
1583 Duke French van Valois returns to France
1593 Earl Mauritius conquerors Geertruidenberg
1629 Peace of Ales: Rights of French huguenots limited
1635 French colony of Guadeloupe established in Caribbean
1651 Battle of Beresteczko between Poles and Ukrainians starts.
1675 Battle at Fehrbellin: Brandenburgs army beats Sweden
1748 Riot after public execution in Amsterdam, 200+ killed
1762 1st reported counterfeiting attempt (Boston)
1762 Russian tsarina Catharina II grabs power
1770 Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia
1776 Charleston, SC repulses British sea attack
1776 Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
1778 Battle of Monmouth, NJ fought between the American Continental Army under George Washington and the British Army led by Sir Henry Clinton (Gen Washington beats Clinton), American Revolutionary War.
1778 Mary Ludwig Hayes "Molly Pitcher" aids American patriots
1807 Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata, British troops lands at Ensenada, Argentina. John Whitelock lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the fierce resistance of the locals.
1820 Tomato is proven non-poisonous
1832 Gerrit Moll measures noise of guns
1838 Britain's Queen Victoria crowned in Westminster Abbey
1838 The coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
1841 The Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris premieres the ballet Giselle
1846 Saxophone is patented by Antoine Joseph Sax
1855 The Sigma Chi Fraternity was founded at Miami University
1859 First conformation dog show is held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
1861 Leipzig Observatory discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) Comet d'Arrest
1862 Day 4 of 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station/Garnett's Farm, VA
1865 The Army of the Potomac is disbanded
1869 Amsterdam typographer strike
1874 Freedmen's Bank closes
1880 Ned Kelly the Australian bushranger captured at Glenrowan.
1881 Secret treaty between Austria and Serbia.
1882 Anglo-French Convention of 1882 signed marking territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
1887 Phillies most lopsided shut-out beating Indianapolis 24-0
1892 Phillies tie club record of 16 straight victories
1894 Labor Day established as an official US holiday.
1895 El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua form the Central American Union.
1896 An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston City, Pennsylvania resulted in a massive cave-in that killed 58 miners.
1897 Marquis C de Bonchamps' expedition reaches Gore Ethiopia
1902 Congress authorizes Louisiana Purchase Expo $1 gold coin
1902 The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal from the French for $40 million.
1904 International Anti-Military Cooperation (IAMV) forms in Amsterdam
1904 The SS Norge Runs aground and sinks
1907 Nationals steal a record 13 bases off catcher Branch Rickey
1909 1st French air show, Concours d'Avation opens
1911 Joseph Caillaux forms government in France
1914 Austria invades Siberia (WW I)
1914 Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip , the casus belli of World War I.
1917 Potato entrepreneurs begins in Amsterdam
1917 Raggedy Ann doll invented
1918 1st flight between Hawaiian Islands
1919 Carl Mazes pitches a complete doubleheader against NY Yankees
1919 Harry Truman marries Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence
1919 Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed in France
1922 The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
1923 Dodgers lost 7-0 lead, as Phillies score 8 in bottom of 9th
1923 Queen Wilhelmina & Prince Henry for state visit to London
1924 Test cricket umpire debut for Frank Chester, v South Africa at Lord's
1924 Tornado strikes Sandusky Ohio & Lorain Ohio, killing 93
1928 Alfred E Smith (NY-Gov) nominated for president at Dem Convention
1928 Friedrich Schmiedl attempted rocket mail in Austria (unsuccessful)
1930 1st night game in Detroit at newly built Hamtramck Stadium as Negro League Detroit Stars take on KC Monarchs
1934 Hitler flies to Essen (Night of Long Knifes)
1935 Earl Averill's consecutive-game streak ends at 673
1935 FDR ordersa federal gold vault to be built at Fort Knox Kentucky
1936 The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
1938 Bradman scores 102* in drawn 2nd Test cricket at Lord's
1939 Joe Louis TKOs Tony Galent in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
1939 Pan Am opens southern route transatlantic air service (Dixie Clipper)
1939 Yanks hit 13 HRs, sweep A's 23-2 & 10-0
1940 "Quiz Kids?" premieres on radio
1940 Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
1941 German & Romanian soldiers kill 11,000 Jews in Kishinev
1941 German troops occupy Galicia Poland
1942 Col-gen Von Hoth' 6th Pantser enters Voronezj
1942 Dumont TV network begins (WABD NY)
1945 Polish Provisional government of National Unity set up by Soviets
1946 Enrico de Nicola becomes 1st pres of Italy
1946 Permanent radio play-by-play of Cleve Indians games begins
1947 "Temptation (Tim-Tayshun) by Red Ingle with Jo Stafford hits #1
1948 Boxer Dick Turpin beat Vince Hawkins at Villa Park, Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.
1948 Cominform circulates the "Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia"; Yugoslavia is expelled from the Communist bloc.
1948 US/British airlift to West-Berlin begins
1950 "Michael Todd's Peep Show" opens at Winter Garden NYC for 278 perfs
1950 North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea in opening phase of the Korean War
1951 "Amos 'n' Andy" premieres on CBS TV
1953 8th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1954 111°F (44°C) at Camden, South Carolina (state record)
1956 1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago Ill
1956 Protests and demonstrations in Poznan. Also called Poznanski czerwiec (June of Poznan).
1956 Riots break out in Poznan Poland, 38 die
1957 Frick overrules & names Stan Musial, Willie Mays, & Hank Aaron to team
1957 Reds' fans stuff ballot box, electing 8 Reds as All Star starters
1958 Brazil becomes world soccer champ in Sweden
1958 Nancy Ramey swims world record 100m (1:09.6)
1959 Phils Wally Post is only outfielder to throw out 2 runners in an inning twice (Losing to Giants 6-0)
1960 10.40" (26.42 cm) of rainfall, Dunmor, Kentucky (state 24-hour record)
1961 Phils & SF set then record longest night game (5h11m) 7-7 15 inn tie
1962 Thalidomide drug banned in Netherlands
1963 Belaunde Terry inaugurated as pres of Peru
1963 Khrushchev visits East-Berlin
1964 Malcom X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity in NY.
1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waldemar Golf Open
1965 1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by Pres Johnson
1965 Princess Beatrice & Claus von Amsberg announce engagement
1966 Ernie Terrel beats Doug Jones in 15 wba for heavyweight boxing title
1967 George Harrison is fined £6 for speeding
1967 Israel annexes East Jerusalem
1968 Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers
1969 John Hampshire scores 107 on Test cricket debut v WI at Lord's
1969 Stonewall riots begin in New York City.
1970 Mary Mills wins LPGA Len Immke Buick Golf Open
1971 Fillmore East closes
1971 Phillies' Rick Wise hits 2 HRs & no-hits Reds
1971 Supreme Court (8-0) overturns draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali
1973 Black Sports Hall of Fame forms, Paul Robeson, Elgin Baylor, Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, Wilma Rudolph, Joe Louis & Althea Gibson elected
1973 Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
1973 Lawsuit in Detroit challenges Little League's "no girls" rule
1974 Fall of earth & rocks kill 200 (Quebrada Blanca Canyon, Colombia)
1974 Wings release "Band on the Run" & "Zoo Gang" in UK
1975 David Bowie releases "Fame"
1975 Golfer Lee Trevino is struck by lightning at Western Open (Ill)
1976 1st woman was admitted to Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo
1976 Hijacked French Airbus lands in Entebbe, Uganda
1976 The Angolan court sentenced US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
1977 Billy Hunter becomes Rangers' 4th manager in 6 days
1977 Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers
1978 The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions, orders Cal medical school to admit Allan Bakke a white man claiming reverse discrimination when application was rejected.
1978 UNICEF chooses rock group Kansas as ambassadors of goodwill
1979 OPEC raises oil prices 24%
1980 NYC transit fare rises from 50 cents to 60 cents
1981 "Piaf" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 165 performances
1981 74 government officials die in attack in Iran
1981 A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of Islamic Republic Party.
1981 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
1982 Prince Charles & Lady Diana name their baby "William"
1983 Bridge section along I-95 in Greenwich, Ct collapsed kills 3
1983 NASA launches Galaxy-A
1983 The Mianus River Bridge collapses over the Mianus River in Connecticut, killing 3 drivers in their vehicles.
1985 Discovery ferried back to Kennedy Space Center via Bergstrom AFB, Tx
1986 Irish population condemns divorce
1986 Kenneth & Nellie Pike challenge Ala Dem runoff win by AG C Graddick
1986 ¡A Luchar! holds its first congress in Bogotá, Colombia.
1987 "Dreamgirls" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 177 performances
1987 Deb Richard wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1987 Don Baylor sets career hit-by-pitch mark at 244 (Pitcher Rick Rhoden)
1988 Mike Tyson sues to break contract with manager Bill Cayton
1990 Emmy 17th Daytime Award presentation Susan Lucci loses for 11th time
1990 Paperback Software International Ltd. 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.
1992 "Chinese Coffee" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 18 performances
1992 2 earthquakes, including 3rd strongest in US (7.4) rock Calif
1992 Burharnuddin Rabbani becomes president of Afghanistan
1992 Italian government of Amato forms
1992 LA Police commisioner Daryl Gates steps down
1992 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1992 Pres Bush's daughter Dorothy marries Bobby Koch
1992 The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
1992 US Dream Team beats Cuba in 1st exhibition basketball game, 133-57
1993 Carlton Fisk, 45, released by White Sox, as all time leader of most games caught & most HRs by a catcher
1993 Doctors recommend ligament transplant to Jose Canseco's arm
1993 Jacques Lemaire is named NJ Devils 8th Head Coach
1993 NCRV shows last "Cheers" in Neth
1994 Lebanese actor
1994 Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas attack at Matsumoto, Japan, 7 persons killed, 660 injured.
1994 NY Met Pitcher Dwight Gooden suspended for 60 days due to drug charges
1995 NJ Devils Stanley Cup Victory Party, admidst rumours they were moving to Nashville, goalie Chris Terreri holds up "Nashville? NO WAY!" sign
1996 "Nutty Professor," starring Eddie Murphy opens in theaters in the USA
1996 The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
1997 "Master Class," closes at Golden Theater NYC after 601 performances
1997 "Steel Peer," closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 76 perfs
1997 Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield II Tyson is disqualified in the 3rd round for biting a piece from Holyfield's ear.
1997 TV evangelist Robert Schuller attacks a flight attendant
2000 Cuban exile Elián González returns to Cuba following a Supreme Court order.
2004 Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism
2004 Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
2004 The 17th NATO Summit starts in Istanbul.
2005 A final design for Manhattan's Freedom Tower is formally unveiled.
2006 The Republic of Montenegro was admitted as the 192nd Member of the United Nations by General Assembly resolution 60/264.
2007 Craig Biggio of the Houston Astros becomes the 27th member of the 3000 hit club, going 5 for 5 against the Colorado Rockies
2012 A series of car bombs in Iraq kills 14 and injures 50 people
2015 David Sweat shot and captured near Canadian border. 2nd prisoner to escape maximum-security Clinton Correctional Facility June 6
2015 Greek government says banks closed for a week and ATM withdrawals restricted after European Central Bank refused to supply emergency funds
2016 Suicide bombings and gun attacks at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport kill 42 and wound more than 200
Born on June 28th
1367 Sigismund, German Emperor/king of Hungary/Bohemia
1476 Paul IV (Giampietro Caraffa), inquisition, Pope (1555-59) (d. 1559)
1490 Albert of Mainz, German archbishop and elector of Mainz, cardinal (d. 1545)
1491 Henry VIII, King of England (1509-47) (d. 1547)
1503 Giovanni della Casa, Italian poet (d. 1556)
1547 Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (d. 1599)
1550 John Drusius, Flemish hebrew translator
1577 Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish Baroque painter (Circumcision) (d. 1640)
1586 Paul Siefert, composer
1641 Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d'Arquien, queen of Poland (d. 1716)
1703 John Wesley, English Christian theologian and co-founder of the Methodist movement (d. 1791)
1712 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher, social contractor (Confession) (d. 1778)
1719 Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (d. 1785)
1734 Jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier, composer
1787 Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces
1806 Napoleon Coste, French guitarist and composer (d. 1883)
1808 Cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess/politican
1812 Rudolf von Alt, Austrian painter
1816 Jacob P P baron van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Min Foreign Affairs (1852-53)
1824 Paul Broca, French physician, brain surgeon (located speech center) (d. 1880)
1824 William Tatus Wofford, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1884)
1825 Richard ACE Erlenmeyer, German chemist (Erlenemyer kolf)
1831 Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (Hungarian Concerto) (d. 1907)
1847 Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson, composer
1852 Hans Huber, composer
1853 Edwin Arthur Jones, composer
1865 Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer/journalist (Remarkable Stories)
1867 Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (6 Characters) (Nobel laureate 1934) (d. 1936)
1867 William Courtleigh, Guelph Ontario, actor (Eyes of Youth, Madame X)
1873 Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist (Nobel laureate 1912) (d. 1944)
1874 Oley Speaks, composer
1875 Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (d. 1941)
1879 Sigurd von Koch, composer
1883 Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
1884 Lamina Sankoh, early Sierra Leonean nationalist (d. 1964)
1885 Berthold Viertel, writer
1885 Giuseppe Mule, composer
1886 Joe Cox, South African cricketer
1887 Boleslav Vomacka, composer
1888 George Challenor, cricketer (pioneering West Indian batsman)
1889 Frank Mayo, silent screen actor (Burning Gold, Hell's Headquarters)
1891 Carl Panzram, American serial killer (d. 1930)
1891 Carl Spaatz, American Air Force general (d. 1974)
1891 Esther Forbes, American writer (d. 1968)
1892 Edward H Carr, England, historian (History of Soviet Russia)
1893 Luciano Gallet, composer
1893 Nils Bjorkander, composer
1894 Lois Wilson, Pitts Pa, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family)
1895 Kazimierz Sikorski, composer
1897 Jacobus J E Hondius, graphic artist
1900 Bob Taggart, Scottish centenarian (d. 2009)
1900 Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author (Kordian into Cham)
1902 John Dillinger, US bank robber (public enemy #1)
1902 Pierre Brunet, France, figure skater pair (Olympic-gold-1928, 32)
1902 Richard Rodgers, American composer (Rodgers & Hammerstein) (d. 1979)
1903 Alan Bunce, Westfield NJ, actor (Albert-Ethel & Albert)
1904 Wlodzimierz Pozniak, composer
1906 Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German atomic physicist (Nobel laureate 1963) (d. 1972)
1906 Nancy Mayhew Youngman, artist/educator
1906 Safford Cape, US/Belgian conductor/composer/music historian
1907 Paul-Emile Victor, French pole explorer (La civilisation du phoque)
1908 James L Reinsch, media-adviser (Roosevelt/Churchill/Kennedy)
1909 Arnold Shaw, composer
1909 Eric Ambler, English suspense writer (Epitaph for a Spy) (d. 1998)
1909 French van Immerseel, Belgian graphic artist
1912 Audrey Langford, singing teacher
1912 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (d. 2007)
1912 Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor (d. 1996)
1913 Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker (d. 2007)
1913 George Walter Selwyn Lloyd, English composer (Serf, John Socman)
1913 Walter Oesau, German pilot (d. 1944)
1914 Aribert Heim, Austrian physician (d. 1992)
1914 Charles Urbanus, Dutch baseball player
1914 Lester Raymond Flatt, TN, bluegrass (Earl-Ballad of Jed Clampett)
1917 Katherine Rawls, American swimming champion (d. 1982)
1917 Willem "Wim" Sonneveld, Dutch singer/actor (My Fair Lady)
1918 Bert Schierbeek (Lambertus), Dutch writer/poet (Cross Roads)
1918 Willie Whitelaw, British Deputy Prime Minister 1979-88 (d. 1999)
1920 A. E. Hotchner, American editor, novelist and playwright
1921 P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (1991) (d. 2004)
1922 Michael Vale, American actor (d. 2005)
1922 Terje Stigen, Norwegian author (Det siste paradiset)
1923 Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, Argentine racing driver
1923 Lloyd Labeach, Panama City, 100m/200m runner (Olympic-bronze-1948)
1924 Henk van Stipriaan, Dutch radio host
1926 Mel Brooks, American filmmaker (Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs)
1926 Robert Shelton Shapiro, journalist
1927 Corelli Barnett, British military historian
1927 Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist (Nobel laureate in chemistry) (d. 2012)
1927 Theo van Tijn, Dutch marxist/social-historian
1928 Andrew Gordon Speedie-Pask, cybernetician stage producer/lyricist
1928 Hans Blix, Swedish head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission 2000-2003
1928 Harold Evans, English journalist and writer; editor of The Sunday Times
1928 Peter Heine, South African cricketer
1928 Ronald Alfred Gardyne "Rags" Butler, sailor
1929 Don Dubbins, Brooklyn, actor (Enchanted Island, Fix)
1930 Itamar Franco, President of Brazil
1930 Nikolay Nikolayevich Karetnikov, composer
1931 Junior Johnson, American NASCAR driver
1931 Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (d. 1995)
1932 Pat Morita, American actor (Happy Days, Karate Kid) (d. 2005)
1933 Gunnar Reynir Sveinsson, composer
1933 Gusty Spence, Northern Irish loyalist politician
1934 Carl M Levin, United States Senator (Sen-D Michigan, 1979)
1934 Roy Gilchrist, cricketer (volatile WI fast bowler of late 50s)
1935 John Inman, English actor (d. 2007)
1936 Bill Orton, (Rep-R-UT, 1983)
1936 Chuck Howley, American football player
1936 Gisela Kraft, writer
1936 Major R Owens, (Rep-D-NY)
1936 Peter Hall, folklorist/musician
1937 George Knudson, Canadian golfer (d. 1989)
1937 Richard Bright, American actor (d. 2006)
1937 Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (d. 1995)
1937 Tom Magliozzi, American radio personality, cohost of Car Talk
1938 John Byner, American comedian
1938 Leon E Panetta, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (Rep-D-CA, 1977).
1938 Moy Yat, Chinese martial artist (d. 2001)
1940 Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi banker, economist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1940 Roderick Wright, ex-Scottish bishop (d. 2005)
1941 Al Downing, American baseball player
1941 Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (d. 2006)
1942 "Chris" Martin Thembisile Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party (d. 1993)
1942 David Miner, American musician and record producer
1942 Frank Zane, American bodybuilder
1942 Jim Kolbe, (Rep-R-AZ, 1985)
1942 Sjoukje Dijkstra, Holland, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1964)
1943 Bobby Harrison, England, rock drummer (Procol Harum-Conquistador)
1943 Donald Johanson, American paleoanthropologist
1943 Ed Pastor, (Rep-D-Arizona)
1943 Jens Birkemose, Danish painter
1943 Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1945 David Knights, English musician (Procol Harum)
1945 Jane Harmon, (Rep-D-California)
1946 Bruce Davison, American actor (Capt Wyler-Hunter, Willard, High Risk)
1946 Gilda Radner, American comedienne (SNL, Haunted Honeymoon) (d. 1989)
1946 Jaime Guzmán, Chilean politician.
1946 John "Mike" Lounge, Denver Colo, astr (STS 51-I, STS 26, STS 35)
1946 Robert L Asprin, US, sci-fi writer (Thieves World, Cold Cash War)
1946 Robert Xavier Rodriguez, composer
1947 Anny Duperey, French film and television actress
1947 Clarissa Dickson Wright, English celebrity chef
1947 Mark Clark, American black power activist (d. 1969)
1947 Mark Helprin, American writer
1947 Patrick Kincaid, who wrote the TODAY program; send him a card
1947 Robert Bondi, American politician
1948 Kathy Bates, American actress, academy award winning actress (Misery)
1949 Don Baylor, Tx, baseball player (Rockies, 1979 AL RBI leader, 267 HBP)
1949 Edward Totah, art dealer
1950 David Lanz, Musical Composer
1950 Ken Arthur, Australian softball asst coach (Olympics-bronze-96)
1950 Mauricio Rojas, Swedish politician
1952 Pietro Mennea, Italian runner (200m world record)
1954 A. A. Gill, British writer and columnist
1954 Alice Krige, South African actress (Chariots of Fire, Ladykiller)
1954 Ava Barber, Knoxville Tn, country singer (Lawrence Welk Show)
1955 Eric Gates, English footballer
1955 Mitch Addock, Macon MS, Nike golfer (1992 BC Open-11th)
1955 Nikolai Simyatov, USSR, nordic skier (Olympic-3 golds-1976)
1955 Shirley Cheriton, English actress
1955 Thomas Hampson, American baritone
1956 Noel Mugavin, Australian Rules Football player
1957 Georgi Parvanov, President of Bulgaria
1957 Jim Spanarkel, American basketball player and TV personality
1957 Lance Nethery, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
1957 Mike Skinner, American racecar driver
1958 Félix Gray, French singer and songwriter
1958 Oran "Juice" Jones, rocker (Curiosity, Here I Go Again)
1958 Sergei Shakrai, USSR, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1980)
1960 John Elway, American football player, NFL quarterback (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1961 Jay Schroeder, NFL quarterback (Wash Redskins, LA Raiders)
1961 Jeff Malone, American basketball player, NBA guard (Washington Bullets, Miami Heat)
1962 Anisoara Stanciu-Cusmir, Romania, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963 Allen Pitts, CFL slot back (Calgary Stampeders)
1963 Andy Cousin, rocker (All About Eve-All About Scarlet & Other Stories)
1963 Beverley Craven, English singer-songwriter
1963 Charlie Clouser, American musician
1963 Wisit Sasanatieng, Thai film director
1964 Bryan Barker, NFL punter (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1964 Mark Grace, American baseball player
1964 Sanjeev Bhaskar, British actor and comedian
1964 Stephanie Maynor, Chester England, golfer (1995 PING Welch's-13th)
1964 Susan Mascarin, Detroit Mich, tennis star
1965 Jessica Hecht, American actress
1965 Michele Timms, WNBA guard (Phoenix Mercury, Olympics-1988, 96)
1965 Sonny Strait, American Voice Actor
1966 Andrew Lang, NBA center (Minnesota Timberwolves, Milwaukee Bucks)
1966 John Cusack, American actor (Stand By Me, Better Off Dead, Identity)
1966 Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress (Some Kind of Wonderful)
1966 Mike Bellamy, WLAF receiver (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1967 Anthony Smith, NFL defensive end (Oakland Raiders)
1967 Gil Bellows, Canadian actor
1967 Lars Riedel, German discus thrower
1967 Matt Karchner, Berwick PA, pitcher (Chic White Sox)
1968 Adam Woodyatt, English actor
1968 Chayanne, Puerto Rican singer
1969 Ayelet Zurer, Israeli actress
1969 Danielle Brisebois, American actress (Archie's Place, Big Bad Mama 2)
1969 Tichina Arnold, Queens, actress (Ryan's Hope, Sharla-All My Children)
1970 Mike White, American filmmaker and actor
1970 Mushtaq Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer
1970 (Jack) Stephen Burton, American actor (Chris-Out of this World)
1971 Aileen Quinn, American actress (Annie)
1971 Bobby Hurley, American basketball player, NBA guard (Sacramento Kings)
1971 Fabien Barthez, French footballer
1971 Gary Downs, NFL running back (Denver Broncos)
1971 Greg Evans, NFL/WLAF safety (Buffalo Bills, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 Greg Keagle, Corning NY, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1971 Jeff Cothran, NFL fullback (Cin Bengals)
1971 Kenny Cunningham, Irish footballer
1971 Louise Bagshawe, British novelist and politician
1971 Norika Fujiwara, Japanese actress and television personality
1971 Ron Mahay, American baseball player
1971 Tichina Arnold, American actress
1972 Alessandro Nivola, American actor
1972 Arie van de Padt, Dutch soccer player (Tonegido, Sparta)
1972 Eric Johnson, CFL linebacker (Toronto Argonauts)
1972 Jerry Colquitt, WLAF quarterback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 Jon Heidenreich, American professional wrestler
1972 Kelly Wiltshire, CFL defensive back (Toronto Argonauts)
1972 Marvin Jones, NFL linebacker (NY Jets)
1972 Ryan Fujita, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1973 Adrian Annus, Hungarian athlete
1973 Alberto Berastegui, Spain, tennis star
1973 Brian Maisonneuve, Detroit Mich, soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 Ingrid Seynhaeve, Brussels Belgium, model (Look of the Year 1991)
1974 Atilla Buday, Budapest Hungary, Canadian canoeist (Olympics-96)
1974 Josh(ua) Crosby, Manchester Mass, rower (Olympics-1996)
1974 Karim Abdul-Jabaar, running back (Miami Dolphins)
1974 Rob Dyrdek, Professional skateboarder
1975 Chad Green, Dunkirk NY, baseball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1975 Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish musician, Dissection (d. 2006)
1976 Seth Wescott, American snowboarder
1976 Shinobu Asagoe, Japanese tennis player
1977 Chris Spurling, American baseball player
1977 Harun Tekin, Turkish musician, Mor ve Ötesi
1977 Lindsay Lee, Oklahoma City Oklahoma, tennis star (1995 Futures-Woodlands TX)
1977 Mark Stoermer, American bass player (The Killers)
1978 Simon Larose, Canadian professional tennis player
1979 Felicia Day, American Actress, Writer, Director, Violinist, and Singer
1979 Florian Zeller, French novelist and playwright
1979 Ha Ji-won, South Korean actress and singer
1979 Randy McMichael, American football player
1981 Brandon Phillips, American baseball player
1981 Michael Crafter, Australian musician (Confession)
1983 Maui Taylor, Filipino model and singer
1984 Imran Khan (singer), Pakistani-Dutch Musician, singer, composer
1985 Phil Bardsley, English footballer
1986 Kellie Pickler, American singer
1986 Shadia Simmons, Canadian actress
1987 Terrence Williams, American Basketball Player
1988 Lacey Schwimmer, American dancer
1990 Jasmine Richards, Canadian actress
1991 Seohyun, Korean singer/dancer
1994 Madeline Duggan, English actress
1994 Prince Hussein bin Al Abdullah II, Prince of Jordan
1995 Kåre Hedebrant, Swedish actor
Died on June 28th
548 Theodora, Byzantine empress (Nika-oproer)
573 Alboin, king of Longobarden, probably poisoned by his wife
767 Paul I, Italian Pope (757-67)
928 Louis the Blind, King of Provence and Holy Roman Emperor
1061 Floris I, Count of Holland
1175 Andrei Bogolyubsky, Russian prince
1194 Emperor Xiaozong of Song China (b. 1127)
1385 Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1348)
1389 Prince Lazar Hrebeljanovic of Serbia (b. 1329)
1586 Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (b. 1508)
1598 Abraham Ortelius, Flemish-born cartographer (b. 1527)
1617 Johan Evertsen de Captain, Swiss admiral, dies in battle
1714 Cornelis Chastelein, colonial director
1714 Daniel van Papenbroeck, Flemish jesuit/historian
1716 George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (b. 1665)
1742 Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner, composer
1748 Marretje Arends (Matje of Nieuwendijk), Amsterdam plunderer, hanged
1748 Pieter van Dort, Amsterdam plunderer, hanged
1776 Thomas Hickey, American sergeant convicted of treason, hanged
1788 Johann Christoph Vogel, composer
1798 Pierre Dutillieu, composer
1802 Johann J Angel, German author/director
1806 Johann Friedrich Ludwig Sievers, composer
1813 Gerhard JD von Scharnhorst, Prussian minister of War (1807-10), dies in battle (b. 1755)
1830 David Walker, abolitionist (Appeal to Colored Citizens)
1834 Joseph Bové, Russian architect (b. 1784)
1836 James Madison, 4th President of the United States (1809-17) (b. 1751)
1846 Adrian van de Ende, vicar/protestant reformer
1855 Giovanni Agostino Perotti, composer
1857 Joseph Fischhof, composer
1872 Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch, composer
1876 August W Ambros, Austria musicologist
1880 Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (b. 1846)
1881 Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman (b. 1798)
1889 Maria Mitchell, 1st US woman astronomer (Vassar) (b. 1818)
1890 Edouard Gregoir, composer
1891 Jose Inzenga y Castellanos, composer
1892 Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (b. 1810)
1909 Israel Durham, Phillies president
1910 Gustave Leon Huberti, composer
1913 Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, President of Brazil (b. 1841)
1914 Countess Sophie Chotek, wife of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1868)
1914 Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (Sarajevo, Bosnia), assassinated (b. 1863)
1914 Sophie, Princess of Austria, assassinated
1915 Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
1916 Stefan Luchian, Romanian painter (b. 1868)
1922 Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (b. 1885)
1929 Edward Carpenter, English poet (b. 1844)
1937 Max Adler, Austrian socialist theorist
1940 Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/gov-gen of Libya
1946 Eduard Veterman, Dutch painter/playwright, dies in an auto accident
1947 Stanislav K Neumann, Czech poet (Anti-Guide)
1950 Henry Balfour Gardiner, composer
1954 Red deer, in Milwaukee Zoo, oldest known deer
1957 Ede Poldini, composer
1958 Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist (Robin Hood)
1958 George Gunn, cricketer (15 Tests for England)
1960 Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1898)
1962 Cy Morgan, American baseball player (b. 1878)
1962 Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player, hall of fame catcher (b. 1903)
1963 Frank "Home Run" Baker, (hit 2 HRs in 1911 world series)
1964 King Calder, actor (Lt Grey-Martin Kane Private Eye)
1965 Red Nichols, American musician (b. 1905)
1965 (Theodora E) Betsy Ranucci-Beckman, actress (Dood Water)
1971 Franz Stangl, Austrian commandant of concentration camps (b. 1908)
1971 Henri Puvrez, Belgian sculptor (Serenity)
1971 Joseph Colombo, mobster, shot dead
1974 Frank Sutton, American actor (Sgt Vince Carter-Gomer Pyle USMC) (b. 1923)
1975 Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis, Greek architect (b. 1913)
1975 Rod Serling, American television scriptwriter (Twilight Zone, Night Gallery) (b. 1924)
1975 Serge Reding, Belgian weightlifter (b. 1941)
1976 Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and film producer (Accident, Guns of Navarone) (b. 1927)
1978 Clifford Dupont, First President of Rhodesia (b. 1905)
1979 Paul Dessau, German composer/conducter (Berlin, 1925-33)
1980 Heal Gahagan Douglas, (Rep-D-Ca), lost to Nixon
1980 Herbie Faye, comedian (Doc, Phil Silvers Show)
1980 José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1895)
1980 Yoshiro Irino, composer
1981 Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, Iran Islamic Rep Party founder, bombed
1981 Peter Paul Kreuder, German composer
1981 Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist (b. 1958)
1982 Gerard[us M] Rutten, director (Sterren stralen overal)
1982 Harry Mills, US, singer (Mills Brothers)
1984 Yigael Yadin, Israeli archeologist, politician and Military Chief of Staff (b. 1917)
1985 James Craig, actor (Human Comedy, Kismet)
1985 Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (b. 1913)
1988 Kurt Raab, writer/actor (Boarding School, Stationmaster's Wife)
1989 Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker (Indonesia) (b. 1898)
1990 Estelle Lamont, entertainer
1991 Ernie McCormick, cricketer (12 Tests for Australia)
1991 Klas Bruinsma, clergyman
1992 Mikhail Tai, Latvian World chess champion (1960-61) (b. 1936)
1993 Boris Christoff, Bulgaria/Italian bass (Don Carlos)
1993 GG Allin, American punk rock singer (b. 1956)
1994 Fredericka Carolyn Washington, actress (Black & Tan)
1994 William A Henry III, critic (Time Mag)
1995 Donald Sinclair, vet
1995 Petri Walli, Finnish rock guitarist and singer (b. 1969)
1996 George Ghita Ionescu, academic
1996 Michael Wishart, artist
1996 Piers Gray, critic/writer
1996 Ronald George Woodman, pilot
1996 Willard F. McMurry, musician
2000 Jane Birdwood, British anti-Semitic activist (b. 1913)
2000 Nils Poppe, Swedish actor (b. 1908)
2001 Joan Sims, English actress (b. 1930)
2001 Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (b. 1902)
2003 Wim Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
2004 Anthony Buckeridge, English author (b. 1912)
2005 Brenda Howard, American LGBT activist (b. 1946)
2006 George Page, American television host (b. 1935)
2006 George Unwin, British WWII fighter ace (b. 1913)
2006 Jim Baen, American science fiction publisher and editor (b. 1943)
2006 Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, English barrister, politician and author (b. 1919)
2007 Eugene Bennett Fluckey, American Navy Submariner (b. 1913)
2007 Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919)
2008 Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (b. 1987)
2009 A. K. Lohithadas, Indian screenwriter, director, and producer (b. 1955)
2009 Billy Mays, American television pitchman (invented the OxiClean) (b. 1958)
2009 Fred Travalena, American comedian and impressionist (b. 1942)
2010 Bill Aucoin, American rock band manager (b. 1943)
2010 Robert Byrd, American politician (b. 1917)
2014 Meshach Taylor, American actor
2015 Jack Carter [Chakrin], American comedian and actor
2016 Pat Summitt, American basketball coach (University of Tennessee)
2016 Scotty Moore, American guitarist (for Elvis)
2016 Buddy Ryan, American NFL coach (Philadelphia Eagles, Phoenix Cardinals)