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Events on June 28

• 1519 The Spanish king Charles I is elected Holy Roman Emperor Charles V by the prince-electors.
• 1840 Friedrich Fröbel founds the first kindergarten in Germany in Bad Blankenburg.
• 1914 Sarajevo assassination: On the anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip murders the Austrian heir Franz Ferdinand. This leads to the July Crisis, which gives rise to the First World War.
• 1919 The German delegation signs under protest the peace treaty submitted to it, formally concluding the First World War. At the same time, the charter of the emerging League of Nations is accepted in the treaty.
• 1926 The companies founded by the automobile pioneers Benz & Co Rheinische Gasmotorenfabrik Mannheim (Benz & Cie. from 1899) and Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft merge to form Daimler-Benz AG, based in Berlin.
• 1948 The British airlift begins under the name Operation Plainfare.
• 1968 In the Federal Republic of Germany, the controversial emergency laws come into force.
• 1969 In the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City, the uprising by homosexuals and other sexual minorities against police brutality on Christopher Street begins in the Stonewall Inn bar. With Christopher Street Day, this event continues to be commemorated today.
• 1981 The first Tatort featuring Götz George as Horst Schimanski, Duisburg-Ruhrort, is broadcast on ARD.
• 1997 At a world championship boxing bout in Las Vegas, Mike Tyson bites off a piece of the ear of his opponent, world champion Evander Holyfield, whereupon his boxing license is revoked for an indefinite period.
• 2005 The French commune of Cadarache is selected for the construction of the ITER experimental reactor, which is intended, through nuclear fusion, to secure the energy supply for a future after the oil reserves have been depleted.
• 2011 The U.S. social network Google+ is launched.

Born on June 28

• 1867 Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel laureate
• 1902 Richard Rodgers, American musical composer
• 1911 Bernhard zur Lippe-Biesterfeld, German prince and husband of the Queen of the Netherlands
• 1912 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher
• 1940 Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi economist, founder of the microfinance concept, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• 1950 Marlene Streeruwitz, Austrian writer
• 1971 Fabien Barthez, French footballer
• 1971 Elon Musk, American entrepreneur
• 1991 Kevin De Bruyne, Belgian footballer
• 2002 Marta Kostjuk, Ukrainian tennis player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „28. Juni“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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