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May 28 leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 216 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events [ ] 585 BC - A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales , while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse , 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 - The Treaty of Everlasting Peace between Scotland and England is signed, which would actually last 10 years.
1533 - The Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declares the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid1588 - 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).1644 - Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby .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 in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania .1774 - American Revolutionary War : The first Continental Congress convenes.1830 - President Andrew Jackson signs The Indian Removal Act which relocates Indians1863 - American Civil War : The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , the first African American regiment, leaves Boston , to fight for the Union .1892 - In San Francisco , John Muir organizes the Sierra Club .1905 - Russo-Japanese War : The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Togo Heihachiro and the Imperial Japanese Navy .1918 - The Democratic Republic of Armenia and Azerbaijan Democratic Republic declare their independence from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic .1926 - Ditadura Nacional established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic . (28th May 1926 coup d'état .)1930 - The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens.1934 - Near Callander , 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 , who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.1937 - Neville Chamberlain becomes British Prime Minister .
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 World War II .
1942 - World War II : In retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich , Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1800 people.1952 - Memphis Kiddie Park opens in Brooklyn . The park's Little Dipper roller coaster would become the oldest operating steel roller coaster in North America .1952 - The women of Greece gain the suffrage .
1955 - Henry Bolte becomes Premier of the state of Victoria .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.1970 - The formerly united Free University of Brussels officially splits into two separate entities, the French -speaking Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Dutch -speaking Vrije Universiteit Brussel .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 , the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.1978 - Second round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta . Elections won by incumbent Sangoulé Lamizana .1979 - Constantine Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community .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 is not released until August 3 , 1988 .1987 - A robot probe finds the wreckage of the USS Monitor near Cape Hatteras , North Carolina .
1991 - The capital city of Addis Ababa , falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front , ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War .1995 - The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, ⅔ of total population.1996 - U.S. President Bill Clinton 's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal , James McDougal and Susan McDougal , and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker , are convicted of fraud.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 da Vinci 's newly-restored masterpiece "The Last Supper " is put back on display.1999 - Two Swedish police officers are murdered with their own fire arms by the bank robbers Jackie Arklöv and Tony Olsson after a dramatic car chase.
2002 - NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.2003 - Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct.2004 - The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi , a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, to become prime minister of Iraq 's interim government.2006 - German-born Pope Benedict XVI visits Auschwitz to conclude his pilgrimage to Poland.Births [ ] 1140 - Xin Qiji , Chinese poet (d. 1207 )1371 - John the Fearless , Duke of Burgundy (d. 1419 )1524 - Selim II , Ottoman Sultan (d. 1574 )1582 - William Fiennes , English statesman (d. 1662 )1588 - Pierre Seguier , Chancellor of France (d. 1672 )1641 - Janez Vajkard Valvasor , Slovenian polymath (d. 1693 )1660 - King George I of Great Britain (d. 1727 )1676 - Jacopo Riccati , Italian mathematician (d. 1754 )1692 - Joseph Butler , English philosopher (d. 1752 )1738 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin , French physician (d. 1814 )1759 - William Pitt the Younger , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1806 )1779 - Thomas Moore , Irish poet (d. 1852 )1807 - Louis Agassiz , Swiss-born zoologist and geologist (d. 1873 )1818 - Pierre Beauregard , American Confederate general (d. 1893 )1836 - Alexander Mitscherlich , German chemist (d. 1918 )1837 - George Ashlin , Irish architect (d. 1921 )1837 - Tony Pastor , American vaudeville performer (d. 1908 )
1853 - Carl Larsson , Swedish painter (d. 1919 )1858 - Carl Rickard Nyberg , Swedish inventor (d. 1939 )1872 - Marian Smoluchowski , Polish physicist (d. 1917 )1878 - Paul Pelliot , French sinologist (d. 1945 )1883 - Vinayak Damodar Savarkar , Indian freedom fighter (d. 1966 )1883 - Clough Williams-Ellis , Welsh architect (d. 1978 )
1884 - Edvard Beneš , Czech politician (d. 1948 )1887 - Jim Thorpe , American athlete (d. 1953 )1889 - Richard Réti , Austrian-Czech chess grandmaster (d. 1929 )1892 - Sepp Dietrich , German SS officer (d. 1966 )1900 - Tommy Ladnier , American musician (d. 1939 )1908 - Ian Fleming , English author (d. 1964 )1909 - Red Horner , Canadian hockey star (d. 2005 )1910 - T-Bone Walker , American singer (d. 1975 )1910 - Lady Rachel Kempson , English actress (d. 2003 )
1911 - Thora Hird , British actress (d. 2003 )1911 - Fritz Hochwälder , Austrian author (d. 1986 )
1912 - Patrick White , Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990 )1912 - Herman Johannes , Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (d. 1992 )
1914 - W. G. G. Duncan Smith , British World War II pilot (d. 1996 )1915 - Joseph Greenberg , American linguist (d. 2001 )1916 - Walker Percy , American author (d. 1990 )1917 - Papa John Creech , American musician (d. 1994 )1918 - Johnny Wayne , Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster ) (d. 1990 )1921 - Heinz G. Konsalik , German author (d. 1999 )1922 - Lou Duva , American boxing trainer1923 - György Ligeti , Hungarian composer (d. 2006 )1923 - Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao , Indian actor,director,producer and politician (d. 1998 )
1925 - Bülent Ecevit , Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2006 )1925 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , German baritone
1931 - Carroll Baker , American actress1934 - Dionne quintuplets (Emilie d. 1954 , Marie d. 1970 , Yvonne d. 2001 )1936 - Betty Shabazz , American civil rights leader (d. 1997 )1936 - Claude Forget , Quebec politician
1938 - Jerry West , American basketball player1938 - Prince Buster , Jamaican musician
1941 - Beth Howland , American actress ("Vera" on Alice )1942 - Stanley B. Prusiner , American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1943 - Terry Crisp , NHL coach1943 - Elena Souliotis , Greek soprano (d. 2004 )
1944 - Rudy Giuliani , ex-Mayor of New York City1944 - Gladys Knight , American singer, actress, author and humanitarian
1944 - Patricia Quinn , Northern Irish actress
1944 - Billy Vera , American actor and musician
1944 - Faith Brown , British actress
1944 - Sondra Locke , American actress
1944 - Gary Stewart , American singer (d. 2003 )
1945 - John Fogerty , American musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival )1945 - Hunter "Patch" Adams , American doctor
1945 - John N. Bambacus , American politician
1946 - Satchidanandan , Indian-born poet1946 - Skip Jutze , baseball player
1947 - Zahi Hawass , Egyptologist
1949 - Wendy O. Williams , American musician (The Plasmatics ) (d. 1998 )1950 - Ian Bradley , British writer, academic and theologian1950 - Jim Harris , American professional wrestler
1952 - Russell J. Wintner , American Hollywood executive1953 - Arto Lindsay , American guitarist and singer1954 - John Tory , Leader: Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario1955 - John McGeoch , Scottish musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees ) (d. 2004 )1955 - Mark Howe , Professional ice hockey player
1956 - Julie Peasgood , British actress1956 - Jerry Douglas , American dobro player
1956 - Markus Höttinger , Austrian racing driver (d. 1980 )
1957 - Kirk Gibson , baseball player1957 - Ben Howland , NCAA basketball coach
1959 - John Morgan , etiquette expert (d. 2000 )1962 - Brandon Cruz , American actor1962 - Roland Gift , English musician (Fine Young Cannibals )
1962 - James Michael Tyler , actor-best known as Gunther on "Friends".
1963 - Houman Younessi , Iranian-born scientist1963 - Gavin Harrison , British drummer
1964 - Jeff Fenech , Australian boxer1964 - Christa Miller , American actress
1964 - David Baddiel , English comedian, novelist and television presenter
1964 - Phil Vassar , country music artist
1965 - Chris Ballew , American musician1968 - Kylie Minogue , Australian actress and singer1969 - Mike DiFelice , baseball player1969 - Justin Kirk , American actor
1970 - Morgan Fox , Canadian model and 1990 Playboy playmate1970 - Ian Cashmore , UK actor, tv presenter & paranormal investigator
1970 - Glenn Quinn , Irish actor
1971 - Isabelle Carré , French actress1971 - Ekaterina Gordeeva , Russian Olympic and World Figure Skating Champion
1972 - Michael Boogerd , Dutch cyclist1972 - Guidoni Junior Doriva , Brazilian footballer
1975 - Charmaine Sheh , Hong Kong actress1976 - Liam O'Brien , American voice actor1976 - Alexei Nemov , Russian gymnast
1976 - Glenn Morrison , Rugby League Player
1977 - Jeremy Borash , American professional wrestling announcer1977 - Elisabeth Hasselbeck , American television panelist (The View )
1979 - Jesse Bradford , American actor1979 - Monica Keena , American actress
1980 - Mark Feehily , Irish musician (Westlife )1980 - Miguel Pérez , Spanish footballer
1981 - Adam Green , American singer and songwriter1981 - Daniel Cabrera , Dominican baseball player
1982 - Alexa Davalos , American actress1982 - Jhonny Peralta , Dominican baseball player
1983 - Humberto Sanchez , Dominican baseball player1985 - Colbie Caillat , American American acoustic-folk singer-songwriter1986 - Charles N'Zogbia , French footballer1986 - Jaslene Gonzalez , American model and reality show contestantDeaths [ ] 1357 - King Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1291 )1556 - Saitō Dōsan , Japanese daimyo (b. 1494 ?)1672 - John Trevor , English politician (b. 1626 )1747 - Luc de Clapiers , French writer (b. 1715 )1750 - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1720 )1787 - Leopold Mozart , Austrian composer (b. 1719 )1805 - Luigi Boccherini , Italian composer (b. 1743 )1808 - Richard Hurd , English bishop and writer (b. 1720 )1811 - Henry Dundas , British minister (b. 1742 )1816 - Ras Wolde Selassie , Ethiopian warlord1828 - Daikokuya Kōdayū , Japanese castaway (b. 1751 )1843 - Noah Webster , American author, politician, and lexicographer (b. 1758 )1849 - Anne Brontë , English author (b. 1820 )1878 - John Russell , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792 )1916 - Ivan Franko , Ukrainian writer (b. 1856 )1927 - Boris Kustodiev , Russian painter (b. 1878 )1937 - Alfred Adler , Austrian psychologist (b. 1870 )1940 - Friedrich Karl von Hessen (b. 1868 )1947 - August Eigruber , Austrian war criminal (b. 1907 )1948 - Unity Mitford , English fascist sympathizer (b. 1914 )1953 - Hori Tatsuo , Japanese writer (b. 1904 )1968 - Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov , Yakut-born Soviet sniper (b. 1908 )1971 - Audie Murphy , American actor and war hero (b. 1925 )1971 - Jean Vilar , French actor (b. 1912 )
1972 - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1894 1975 - Ezzard Charles , Heavyweight champion (b. 1921 )1976 - Steffan Danielsen , Faroese painter (b. 1922 )1978 - Arthur Brough , English actor (b. 1905 )1980 - Rolf Nevanlinna , Finnish mathematician (b. 1895 )1981 - Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński , Archbishop of Warsaw (b. 1901 )1984 - Eric Morecambe , British comedian (Morecambe and Wise ) (b. 1926 )1988 - Sy Oliver , Jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader (b. 1910 )1993 - Billy Conn , American boxer and actor (b. 1917 )1994 - Julius Boros , American golfer (b. 1920 )1994 - Ely Jacques Kahn , American writer (b. 1916 )
1998 - Phil Hartman , Canadian actor, comedian (b. 1948 )2001 - Francisco Varela , Chilean biologist and philosopher (b. 1946 )2001 - Joe Moakley , American politician (b. 1927 )
2002 - Jean Berger , German-born composer (b. 1909 )
2003 - Oleg Makarov , cosmonaut (b. 1933)
2003 - Ilya Prigogine , Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917 )
2003 - Martha Scott , American actress (b. 1912 )
2004 - Umberto Agnelli , Swiss-born automobile executive (b. 1934 )2006 - Thorleif Schjelderup , Norwegian author and ski jumper (b. 1920 )2007 - Marquise Hill , American football player (b. 1982 )2007 - Toshikatsu Matsuoka , Japanese politician (b. 1945 ) Holidays and observances [ ] External links [ ]
151 Familypedia people were born on May 28
179 Familypedia people died on May 28
86 Familypedia people were first married on May 28