📜 This Day in History

June 28

• 572Alboin, the king of the Lombards, was assassinated in Verona in a coup d'état instigated by the Byzantines.
• 1841Giselle, a ballet by the French composer Adolphe Adam, was first performed at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris.
• 1904In the worst maritime disaster involving a Danish merchant ship, SS Norge ran aground on Hasselwood Rock and sank in the North Atlantic, resulting in more than 635 deaths.
• 1942World War II: The Wehrmacht launched Case Blue, a strategic German offensive to capture oil fields in the south of the Soviet Union.
• 1969In response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, groups of gay and transgender people began demonstrations, a watershed event for the worldwide gay rights movement.
• 2016Gunmen attacked Istanbul's Atatürk Airport, killing 45 people and injuring more than 230 others.

Born on this day

• 1577Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter and diplomat (died 1640)
• 1712Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher and polymath (died 1778)
• 1867Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1936)
• 1971Elon Musk, South African-born American entrepreneur