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June 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) ... Vidovdan, celebrating St. Vitus and an important day in Serbian history. (Eastern Orthodox Church)
1895 – The U.S. Court of Private Land Claims ruled that James Reavis 's claim to 18,600 sq mi (48,000 km 2) of land in present-day Arizona and New Mexico was "wholly fictitious and fraudulent". 1904 – In the worst maritime disaster involving a Danish merchant ship, SS Norge ran aground on Hasselwood Rock and sank in the North Atlantic ...
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The 2012 NBA draft was held on June 28, 2012, at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, and broadcast in the United States on ESPN. The New Orleans Hornets won the National Basketball Association (NBA) draft lottery on May 30.
June 6 – John D. Works, U.S. senator from California from 1911 to 1917 (born 1847) June 16 – Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools (born 1867) June 22 A. B. Frost, illustrator (born 1851) George Siegmann, actor (born 1882) June 24 – Holbrook Blinn, actor (born 1872) July 1 Avery Hopwood, playwright (born 1882) [26]
January 1: Public Domain Day; Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God (Roman Rite Catholicism) Lachlan Macquarie 1725 – J. S. Bach led the first performance of his chorale cantata Jesu, nun sei gepreiset , which features trumpet fanfares at the start and end.
June 28 The keel of the first 1,000 ft (300 m)-long ocean liner , Oceanic , for the British White Star Line , is laid by Harland and Wolff in Belfast ; construction is delayed, and cancelled on 23 July 1929 .
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