74041 | June 28 | Death | 2015 – Jack Carter, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1932) |
74042 | June 28 | Death | 2015 – Jope Seniloli, Fijian politician, Vice-President of Fiji (b. 1939) |
74043 | June 28 | Death | 2015 – Todor Slavov, Bulgarian race car driver (b. 1984) |
74044 | June 28 | Death | 2015 – Wally Stanowski, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1919) |
74045 | June 28 | Holiday and observance | Christian feast day:Blessed Maria Pia MastenaIrenaeus of Lyon (Western Christianity)MarcellaPaulus IVincenza GerosaJune 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) |
74046 | June 28 | Holiday and observance | Earliest day on which Vartavar can fall, while August 1 is the latest celebrated on the 14th weeks after Easter (Armenia) |
74047 | June 28 | Holiday and observance | Constitution Day (Ukraine) |
74048 | June 28 | Holiday and observance | Family Day (Vietnam) |
74049 | June 28 | Holiday and observance | Poznań Remembrance Day (Poland) |
74050 | June 28 | Holiday and observance | Soviet Occupation Day, Moldova |
74051 | June 28 | Holiday and observance | Tau Day |
74052 | June 28 | Holiday and observance | Vidovdan, celebrating St. Vitus and an important day in Serbian history. (Eastern Orthodox Church) |
74053 | June 29 | Event | 226 – Cao Pi dies after an illness his son Cao Rui succeeds him as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei. |
74054 | June 29 | Event | 1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi. |
74055 | June 29 | Event | 1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway. |
74056 | June 29 | Event | 1444 – Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll. |
74057 | June 29 | Event | 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island. |
74058 | June 29 | Event | 1613 – The Globe Theatre in London burns to the ground. |
74059 | June 29 | Event | 1644 – Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil. |
74060 | June 29 | Event | 1659 – At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy. |
74061 | June 29 | Event | 1776 – First privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War fought at Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey |
74062 | June 29 | Event | 1776 – Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asís in what is now San Francisco. |
74063 | June 29 | Event | 1786 – Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario. |
74064 | June 29 | Event | 1807 – Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos. |
74065 | June 29 | Event | 1850 – Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece. |
74066 | June 29 | Event | 1864 – Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec. |
74067 | June 29 | Event | 1874 – Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year. |
74068 | June 29 | Event | 1880 – France annexes Tahiti. |
74069 | June 29 | Event | 1881 – In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam. |
74070 | June 29 | Event | 1888 – George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music. |