Historical Events In June - 28

2017  China’s president, Xi Jinping begins 3 day trip to Hong Kong to mark 20 years since the territory handed back to China on June - 28.   

2017  "Spider-man: Homecoming" directed by Jon Watts starring Tom Holland, Michael Keaton and Robert Downey Jr . premieres in Los Angeles on this day in history.   

2018  On this day in history lone gunman attacks offices of Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, killing nine   

2018  Power company uncovers Neolithic wooden trackway 2,300 years old in Suffolk, England. One of the largest archaeological digs in Europe at 16,000 square meters on this day in history.   

2018  Employee charged with attempted poisoning of colleague's sandwich in Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock, Germany, leading authorities to investigate 21 other suspicious deaths on June - 28.   

2018  Amsterdam elects its first-ever woman mayor Femke Halsema since its first mayor in 1343 on this day in history.   

2018  Fire starts on Winter Hill on Lancashire moorland, England, lit by arson on June - 28.   

2018  On this day in history ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo declared "largely contained" by World Health Organisation, first outbreak to use new Merck vaccine   

2020  On June - 28 [COVID-19 pandemic] The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 10 million worldwide.   

2020  On June - 28 [COVID-19 pandemic] The global death toll from COVID-19 exceeds 500,000.   

2021  On this day in history tigray War: The Tigray Defense Force seizes the Tigrayan capital Mekelle shortly after the Ethiopian government declares a ceasefire.   

2023  The Sierra Leonean general election is held; Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People's Party is re-elected president on June - 28.   

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1367  Sigismund, German Emperor/king of Hungary/Bohemia was born on June - 28.   

1476  On June - 28 birth of paul IV, [Giampietro Caraffa], inquisition/Pope (1555-59)   

1476  On this day in history birth of pope Paul IV (d. 1559)   

1490  On June - 28 birth of albrecht von Brandenburg, German archbishop/monarch of Mainz/cardinal   

1491  On this day in history birth of henry VIII, King of England (1509-47)   

1503  On June - 28 birth of giovanni della Casa, Italian poet (d. 1556)   

1547  Cristofano Malvezzi, composer was born on this day in history.   

1550  On this day in history birth of john Drusius, Flemish hebrew translator   

0548  Theodora, dancer/empress of Byzantine (Nika-oproer), dies on this day in history.   

0573  On this day in history death of alboin, king of Longobarden, probably poisoned by his wife   

0767  Paul I, Italian Pope (757-67), dies on this day in history.   

1061  On June - 28 floris I, count of Holland, dies   

1175  Death of Andrei Bogolyubsky, Russian prince on June - 28.   

1194  On this day in history death of emperor Xiaozong of Song China (b. 1127)   

1385  Andronicus IV Paleologus, Byzantine anti-emperor, dies on this day in history.   

1389  On this day in history death of prince Lazar Hrebeljanović of Serbia (b. 1329)