History of 28 june

 Important events of June 28

• In Amsterdam in 1748, more than 200 people were killed in riots in protest against the public execution of two men.
• The tomato was proved to be a non-poisonous vegetable in 1820.
• Queen Victoria of Britain was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London in 1838.
• Antoine Joseph Sachs patented the saxophone in 1846.
• The First World War ended with the signing of the Versailles Peace Treaty in 1919.
• The Irish Civil War began in 1922.
• England won a Test series in 1932 by defeating India by 158 runs in a three-day Test match at Lord's. Many players from both the teams made their debuts in this.
• German and Romanian troops massacred 11,000 Jews in 1941 in Kishinev, the capital of the Russian Empire's Bessarabia province.
• German forces occupied Galicia, Poland in 1941.
• South African leader Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for the first time in 1952.
• In 1956, riots broke out in Pozna, Poland, killing 38 people.
• In 1960, 37 miners were killed in a gas explosion at a coal mine in Monmouthshire, Wales.
• The first commercial satellite Early Bird (Intelsat I) started communication service in 1965.
• The first woman was admitted to the US Air Force Academy in 1976.
• In 1981, 74 government officials were killed in an attack in Iran.
• China opened the road to Kailash and Mansarovar in 1981.
• In 1999, Romania banned Russian aircraft from flying in its air force.
• Israel-Palestine agreed in 2003 to take steps to stop the bloodshed in West Asia.
• In a small ceremony in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, the United States returned the reins of Iraq's rule to the Iraqi people in 2004.
• The 17th Summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Istanbul, Turkey began in 2004.
• US coalition forces handed over sovereignty to Iraq's interim government in 2004.
• In 2005, Russia announced plans to build six nuclear reactors for Iran.
• Apple's first smartphone, known as the iPhone, hit the market in 2007.
• Bank of India Chairman and Managing Director T. s. Narayana Swamy was elected the President of the Indian Bankers Association in 2008.
• Nasira Sharma was awarded the 14th International Indusharma Katha Samman for her novel Kuiyan Jaan in 2008 at a function in London.
• A series of bombings in Iraq in 2012 killed 14 people and injured more than 50.

Born on 28 June – Born on 28 June

• Alex Karl, the biologist who discovered how to preserve living organs, was born in 1873.
• Shivprasad Gupta, the founder and famous revolutionary of Hindi newspaper 'Dainik Aaj', was born in 1883.
• Former Prime Minister of India PV Narasimha Rao was born in 1921.
• Mercedes-Benz was born in 1926 with the merger of the companies of Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz.
• India's famous shooter Jaspal Rana was born in 1976.
• Mariyappan Thangavelu (born 1995) is an Indian high jumper.

Died on 28 June

• Famous Indian scientist and statistician PC Mahalanobis died in 1972
• Kichi Miyazawa, the former Prime Minister of Jaffna, died in 2007.
• Amar Goswami, India's famous litterateur and novelist, died in 2012.