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On June 28, 1098: Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul at the battle of Antioch.

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Featured moment · 1098

Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul at the battle of Antioch.

The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, which were initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church in the Middle Ages. Their aim was to return the Holy Land—which had been conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate in the 7th century—to Christian rule. By the 11th century, although Jerusalem had then been ruled by Muslims for hundreds of years, the practices of the Seljuk rulers in the region began to threaten local Christian populations, pilgrimages from the West and the Byzantine Empire itself.

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Born on June 28

Tom Bischof 2005– German footballer (born 2005)
Pio Esposito 2005– Italian footballer (born 2005)
Marta Kostyuk 2002– Ukrainian tennis player (born 2002)
Markéta Vondroušová 1999– Czech tennis player (born 1999)
Tadasuke Makino 1997– Japanese racing driver (born 1997)
Shakur Stevenson 1997– American boxer (born 1997)
Donna Vekić 1996– Croatian tennis player (born 1996)
Larissa Werbicki 1996– Canadian rower (born 1996)
Hussein 1994– Heir apparent to the Jordanian throne (born 1994)
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Bradley Beal 1993– American basketball player (born 1993)
Oscar Hiljemark 1992– Swedish footballer (born 1992)
Elaine Thompson 1992– Jamaican sprinter (born 1992)
Seohyun 1991– South Korean singer and actress (born 1991)
Kevin De Bruyne 1991– Belgian footballer (born 1991)
Kang Min-hyuk 1991– South Korean musician (born 1991)
Jason Clark 1989– Australian rugby league footballer
Andrew Fifita 1989– Australia & Tonga international rugby league footballer (born 1989)
David Fifita 1989– Tonga international rugby league footballer

People

Died on June 28

Aminu Dantata Nigerian businessman and philanthropist (1931–2025)
D. Wayne Lukas American horse trainer (1935–2025)
Dave Parker American baseball player (1951–2025)
Orlando Cepeda Puerto Rican baseball player (1937–2024)
Audrey Flack American artist (1931–2024)
Mohamed Osman Jawari Speaker of the Federal Parliament of Somalia from 2012 to 2018 (1945–2024)
Lowell Weicker American politician (1931–2023)
Harlan Ellison American writer (1934–2018)
Scotty Moore American guitarist (1931–2016)
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Pat Summitt American basketball player and coach (1952–2016)
Buddy Ryan American football player, coach, and executive (1931–2016)
Jack Carter American comedian and actor (1922–2015)
Jope Seniloli Fijian politician, Vice-President of Fiji (born 1939)
Wally Stanowski Canadian ice hockey player
Seymour Barab American composer and musician (1921–2014)
Jim Brosnan American baseball player (1929–2014)
On Kawara Japanese artist (1932–2014)
Meshach Taylor American actor (1947–2014)

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Every June 28 on record

  1. 1098 Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul at the battle of Antioch.

    1096–1099 Christian re-conquest of the Holy Land

    The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, which were initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church in the Middle Ages. Their aim was to return the Holy Land—which had been conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate in the 7th century—to Christian rule. By the 11th century, although Jerusalem had then been ruled by Muslims for hundreds of years, the practices of the Seljuk rulers in the region began to threaten local Christian populations, pilgrimages from the West and the Byzantine Empire itself.

  2. 1360 Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.

    Sultan of Granada (1332–1362)

    Abu Abdullah Muhammad VI ibn Ismail, also known by his Castilian nickname el Bermejo, and the regnal names al-Ghālib bi 'llāh and al-Mutawakkil ʿalā 'llāh, was the tenth Sultan of the Emirate of Granada. A member of the Nasrid dynasty, he ruled for a brief period between June or July 1360 and April 1362.

  3. 1461 Edward, Earl of March, is crowned King Edward IV of England.

    King of England (1461–70; 1471–83)

    Edward IV was King of England from 4 March 1461 to 3 October 1470, then again from 11 April 1471 until he died in 1483. He was a central figure in the Wars of the Roses, a series of civil wars in England fought between the Yorkist and Lancastrian factions between 1455 and 1487.

  4. 1495 A French force heavily defeats a much larger Neapolitan and Spanish army at the battle of Seminara, leading to the creation of the Tercios by Gonzalo de Córdoba.

    Battle in the Italian Wars (1495)

    The Battle of Seminara, part of the First Italian War, was fought in Calabria on 28 June 1495 between a French garrison in recently conquered Southern Italy and the allied forces of Spain and Naples which were attempting to reconquer these territories. Against the redoubtable combination of gendarmes and Swiss mercenary pikemen in the French force, the allies had only Neapolitan troops of indifferent quality and a small corps of lightly armed Spanish soldiers, accustomed to fighting the Moors of Spain. The result was a rout, and much of the fighting centered on delaying actions to permit the fleeing allied force to escape.

  5. 1519 Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

    Holy Roman Emperor from 1519 to 1556

    Charles V was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain from 1516 to 1556, King of Sicily and Naples from 1516 to 1554, and also Lord of the Netherlands and titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506 to 1555. He was heir to and then head of the rising House of Habsburg. His dominions in Europe included the Holy Roman Empire, extending from Germany to northern Italy with rule over the Austrian hereditary lands and Burgundian Low Countries, and Spain with its possessions of the southern Italian kingdoms of Sicily, Naples, and Sardinia.

  6. 1575 Sengoku period of Japan: The combined forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu are victorious in the Battle of Nagashino.
  7. 1635 Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
  8. 1651 The Battle of Berestechko between Poland and Ukraine starts.
  9. 1745 A New England colonial army captures the French fortifications at Louisbourg (New Style).
  10. 1776 American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Sullivan's Island ends with the American victory, leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day.
  11. 1776 American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
  12. 1778 American Revolutionary War: The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.
  13. 1797 French troops disembark in Corfu, beginning the French rule in the Ionian Islands.
  14. 1807 Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelocke lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.
  15. 1838 Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
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  1. 1841 The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier.
  2. 1855 Sigma Chi fraternity is founded in North America.
  3. 1859 The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
  4. 1865 The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
  5. 1870 The US Congress establishes the first federal holidays (New Year Day, July 4th, Thanksgiving, and Christmas).
  6. 1880 Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
  7. 1881 The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
  8. 1882 The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
  9. 1894 Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
  10. 1895 The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis's claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
  11. 1896 An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
  12. 1902 The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
  13. 1904 The SS Norge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270 mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.
  14. 1911 The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt.
  15. 1914 Causes of World War I: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo, beginning the July Crisis and providing the casus belli of World War I.

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