May 28
May 28 is the 148th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (149th in leap years ). There are 217 days remaining.
Events
585 BC - A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Thales , while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares , leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
1503 - James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor are married by Pope Alexander VI according to Papal Bull .
1503 - Treaty of Everlasting Peace between Scotland and England is signed, which would actually last 10 years.
1588 - The Spanish Armada , with 130 ships and 30,000 men, begins to set sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel . (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port).
1754 - French and Indian War : In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party at Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette Couty in southwestern Pennsylvania .
1774 - American Revolutionary War : The first Continental Congress convenes.
1863 - American Civil War : The 54th Massachusetts , the first African American regiment, leaves Boston, Massachusetts to fight for the Union .
1892 - In San Francisco, California , John Muir organizes the Sierra Club .
1918 - The first Republic of Armenia declares its statehood.
1918 - Independence day in the Azerbaijan Republic .
1930 - The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens.
1934 - Near Callender, Ontario , the Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne, later becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy .
1934 - The Glyndebourne festival in England is inaugurated.
1936 - Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers 1937 - The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco , California is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, DC , who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.
1940 - World War II : Belgium surrenders to Germany .
1940 - World War II: Norwegian , French , Polish and British forces recapture Narvik . First allied infantry victory in WW2.
1942 - World War II: In retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich , Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1800 people.
1961 - Peter Benenson 's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is published in several internationally read newspapers . This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International .
1964 - The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.
1969 - Sound engineer Glyn Johns mixes the second of the Beatles Bootlegs .
1974 - Northern Ireland 's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists .
1975 - Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos thus creating the Economic Community of West African States .
1977 - In Southgate, Kentucky , the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
1982 - Falklands War : British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green .
1987 - 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in Red Square in Moscow . He is immediately detained and will later be released on August 3 , 1988 .
1987 - A robot probe finds the wreckage of the USS Monitor near Cape Hatteras , North Carolina .
1995 - Neftegorsk , Russia is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake killing at least 2,000 people, 2/3 of the town's population.
1998 - Nuclear testing : Pakistan responds to a series of Indian nuclear tests with five of its own, prompting the United States , Japan , and other nations to impose economic sanctions .
1999 - In Milan , Italy , after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo de Vinci 's newly-restored masterpiece "The Last Supper " is put back on display.
2000 - The volcano Mount Cameroon erupts .
2002 - Washington DC 's medical examiner declares that Chandra Levy 's death was the result of homicide .
2004 - The cable TV channels TechTV and G4 merge.
Births
1371 - John the Fearless , Duke of Burgundy (d. 1419 )
1524 - Selim II , Ottoman Emperor (d. 1574 )
1588 - Pierre Seguier , chancellor of France (d. 1672 )
1660 - King George I of Great Britain (d. 1727 )
1759 - William Pitt the Younger , Prime Minister of Britain (d. 1806 )
1779 - Thomas Moore , poet (d. 1852 )
1807 - Louis Agassiz , zoologist and geologist (d. 1873 )
1818 - Pierre Beauregard , Confederate general
1836 - Alexander Mitscherlich , chemist (d. 1918 )
1853 - Carl Larsson , painter (d. 1919 )
1858 - Carl Rickard Nyberg , inventor (d. 1939 )
1884 - Edvard Benes , politician (d. 1948 )
1887 - Jim Thorpe , sportsman (d. 1953 )
1892 - Sepp Dietrich , SS officer, bodyguard of Adolf Hitler (d. 1966 )
1900 - Tommy Ladnier , jazz musician (d. 1939 )
1908 - Ian Fleming , author of James Bond books (d. 1964 )
1910 - T-Bone Walker , blues singer (d. 1975 )
1910 - Lady Rachel Kempson , actress (d. 2003 )
1911 - Fritz Hochwälder , author (d. 1986 )
1911 - Thora Hird , British actress (d. 2003 )
1912 - Patrick White , author (d. 1990 )
1914 - W. G. G. Duncan Smith , World War II pilot (d. 1996 )
1915 - Joseph Greenberg , linguist (d. 2001 )
1916 - Walker Percy , author (d. 1990 )
1917 - Papa John Creech , musician (d. 1994 )
1921 - Heinz G. Konsalik , author (d. 1999 )
1922 - Lou Duva , boxing trainer
1923 - György Ligeti , composer
1923 - Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao , actor, director, producer (d. 1998 )
1923 - Henry Kissinger , US presidential advisor
1925 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , German baritone
1925 - Bülent Ecevit , Prime Minister of Turkey
1931 - Carroll Baker , actress
1934 - The Dionne quintuplets , the world's first surviving quintuplets
1936 - Betty Shabazz , civil rights leader and wife of Malcolm X
1938 - Osvaldo Romberg , painter, architect
1938 - Jerry West , basketball star
1944 - Rudy Giuliani , former mayor of New York City
1944 - Gladys Knight , singer
1944 - Billy Vera , actor/musician
1945 - John Fogerty , musician ("Creedence Clearwater Revival ")
1946 - K. Satchidanandan , poet
1947 - Sondra Locke , actress
1949 - Wendy O. Williams , musician ("The Plasmatics ") (d. 1998 )
1957 - Kirk Gibson , baseball player
1962 - Roland Gift , musician ("Fine Young Cannibals ")
1962 - Brandon Cruz , actor
1964 - Jeff Fenech , boxer
1964 - Christa Miller , actress (The Drew Carey Show Scrubs 1965 - Chris Ballew , musician
1968 - Kylie Minogue , actress and singer
1977 - Elisabeth Hasselbeck , television panelist
1981 - Vaidya Gullapalli , pro
Deaths
1357 - King Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1291 )
1805 - Luigi Boccherini , Italian composer (b. 1743 )
1811 - Henry Dundas , 1st Viscount Melville, British minister (b. 1742 )
1843 - Noah Webster , American author, politician, and lexicographer (b. 1758 )
1849 - Anne Brontë , English author, sister of Charlotte and Emily Brontë (b. 1820 )
1940 - Friedrich Karl von Hessen (b. 1868 )
1948 - Unity Mitford , fascist sympathizer (b. 1914 )
1971 - Audie Murphy , American actor and war hero (b. 1924 )
1972 - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1894 )
1980 - Rolf Nevanlinna , mathematician (b. 1895 )
1993 - Billy Conn , boxer and actor (b. 1917 )
1994 - Julius Boros , golfer (b. 1920 )
1994 - Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr. , American magazine writer (b. 1916)
1998 - Phil Hartman , actor, comedian (b. 1948 )
2001 - Francisco Varela , biologist and philosopher (b. 1946 )
2002 - Jean Berger , German-born composer (b. 1909 )
2003 - Alexander Heimann , author
2003 - Oleg Makarov , cosmonaut (b. 1933 )
2003 - Ilya Prigogine , winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977 (b. 1917 )
2003 - Martha Scott , American actress (b. 1912 )
2004 - Umberto Agnelli , Italian businessman (b. 1934 )
Holidays and observances
Sunset and sunrise occur along Manhattan 's street grid centerline
External links
May 27 - May 29 - April 28 - June 28 - listing of all days
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