Ottoman Sultan Murad I defeats Prince Lazar of Serbia at the battle of Kosovo. Both leaders are killed along with much of the Serbian nobility. Serbia will become a vassal state within the Ottoman empire<\/a>.<\/p>\n Three months after routing Henry VI\u2019s Lancastrians at the battle of Towton<\/a>, Yorkist Edward IV<\/a> was crowned king in Westminster.<\/p>\n Birth in Geneva of philosopher and composer Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His mother died a few days after his birth. Emile, his treatise on the philosophy of education, and political writings like his Discourse on Equality and The Social Contract, made Rousseau one of the most influential writers of the 18th-century Enlightenment, and his ideas were espoused by the leaders of the French revolution. Sixteen years after his sudden death at Ermenonville, Oise, in July 1778 his remains were transferred to the Pantheon in Paris.<\/p>\n Four hundred thousand people lined London\u2019s streets to watch the coronation procession of Queen Victoria<\/a> who was crowned that day in Westminster Abbey<\/a>.<\/p>\n Having devised instruments such as the saxhorn and the saxotromba, Belgian inventor Adolphe Sax hits the jackpot with his patent for a single-reed instrument made of brass. Once again he names it after himself \u2013 the saxophone.<\/p>\n Australian bushranger Edward \u2018Ned\u2019 Kelly was captured after a shoot-out with police at Glenrowen in Victoria. His three associates were killed in the incident and Kelly was hanged in Melbourne Gaol that November.<\/p>\n Browse more\u00a0On this day in history<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> By Elinor Evans Published: Tuesday, 28 June 2022 at 12:00 am 28 June 1389\u00a0 Ottoman Sultan Murad I defeats Prince Lazar of Serbia at the battle of Kosovo. Both leaders are killed along with much of the Serbian nobility. Serbia will become a vassal state within the Ottoman empire. 28 June 1461 Three months after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":15516,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/06\/28-june-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/06\/28-june-on-this-day-in-history-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/06\/28-june-on-this-day-in-history-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/06\/28-june-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/06\/28-june-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/06\/28-june-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/06\/28-june-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Elinor Evans Published: Tuesday, 28 June 2022 at 12:00 am 28 June 1389\u00a0 Ottoman Sultan Murad I defeats Prince Lazar of Serbia at the battle of Kosovo. Both leaders are killed along with much of the Serbian nobility. Serbia will become a vassal state within the Ottoman empire. 28 June 1461 Three months after…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/15515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}28 June 1461<\/h3>\n
28 June 1712<\/h3>\n
28 June 1838\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
28 June 1846\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
28 June 1880\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
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