Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 28
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This is a list of selected June 28 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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- 1389 - Ottoman wars in Europe: Turks under Murad I defeated Lazar Hrebeljanović and a coalition of Serb lords at the Battle of Kosovo.
- 1880 – Australian bank robber and bushranger Ned Kelly was captured in Glenrowan, Victoria after surviving a gun battle with police.
- 1914 – Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, sparking the outbreak of World War I.
- 1919 – The Treaty of Versailles was signed, ending World War I.
- 1956 – Workers in Poznań, Poland held massive protests demanding the lowering of food prices, rising of wages and revoking some recent law changes that worsened working conditions, but were violently repressed the following day.
- 1969 – In response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn (pictured) in New York City, groups of gay and transgender people began to riot against New York City Police officers, a watershed event for the worldwide gay rights movement.
