June 28, 2023: This Day in History
Release time:
2023-06-28
June 28, 650: Songtsän Gampo, the ruler of the Tibetan Empire, passed away.
June 28, 1712: Birth of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a French philosopher.
June 28, 1840: The Opium War broke out.
June 28, 1841: Lin Zexu was demoted and exiled to Ili, Xinjiang.
June 28, 1902: The United States decided to build the Panama Canal.
June 28, 1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo, triggering World War I.
June 28, 1919: China refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles.
June 28, 1919: Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles.
June 28, 1926: Zhang Zuolin and Wu Peifu jointly formed the Beijing government.
June 28, 1934: The "Manchukuo Empire" implemented economic integration with Japan.
June 28, 1940: Birth of Muhammad Yunus, the father of microcredit and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
June 28, 1942: Grand Ceremony at Genghis Khan's Mausoleum.
June 28, 1946: Italy abolished the monarchy.
June 28, 1950: The Korean People's Army liberated Seoul.
June 28, 1958: Brazil won the sixth FIFA World Cup.
June 28, 1967: Israel occupied all of Jerusalem.
June 28, 1971: A US court ruled on the case of Ali's refusal to serve in the military.
June 28, 1971: Shi Shenghan, a Chinese agricultural historian, passed away.
June 28, 1986: Deng Xiaoping discussed reforming the political system and strengthening the rule of law.
June 28, 1992: Scientist Qian Sanqiang passed away.
June 28, 1993: Bank of China returned to the European market.
June 28, 1997: The State Council authorized the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government to receive the assets of the former Hong Kong government.
June 28, 1997: The first section of Guangzhou Metro Line 1 opened.
June 28, 1997: Boxer Mike Tyson was stripped of his world ranking for biting his opponent.
June 28, 2002: Hong Kong announced the re-issuance of ten-dollar banknotes.
June 28, 2003: The Law of the People's Republic of China on Resident Identity Cards was passed and promulgated.
June 28, 2009: The world's first ultra-deepwater ocean drilling and oil storage platform was successfully built.
June 28, 2016: Terrorist attack at an airport in Turkey.
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