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 occurred, 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 - Treaty of Everlasting Peace between Scotland and England is signed. 1503 - James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor are married by Pope Alexander VI according to Papal Bull. 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 defeats a French reconnaissance party 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 - Independence day in Azerbaijan Republic. 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 is inaugurated. 1936 - Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publishing. 1937 - In Washington, DC President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the Golden Gate Bridge. 1940 - World War II: Belgium surrenders to Germany. 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. 1975 - 15 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 inside. 1987 - 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union's 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 2000 people (2/3rd 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. 2002 - Washington DC's medical examiner declares that Chandra Levy's death was the result of homicide. Births 1300-1899 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) 1900-1999 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) 1912 - Patrick White, author (d. 1990) 1914 - W. G. G. Duncan Smith, World War II pilot (d. 1996) 1915 - Joseph H. 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) 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 1977 - Jelena Begena, Registry Assistant, TLSI. 1986 - Joseph Cross, actor 2003 - Prometea, first cloned horse Deaths 1300-1899 1357 - King Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1291) 1805 - Luigi Boccherini, musician (b. 1743) 1811 - Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, British minister (b. 1742) 1843 - Noah Webster, author, politician, compiler of the American Dictionary of the English Language (b. 1758) 1849 - Anne Brontë, author, sister of Charlotte and Emily Brontë (b. 1820) 1900-1999 1940 - Friedrich Karl von Hessen (b. 1868) 1948 - Unity Mitford, fascist sympathizer (b. 1914) 1971 - Audie Murphy, actor, war hero (b. 1924) 1972 - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1894) 1980 - Rolf Nevanlinna, mathematician (b. 1895) 1993 - Billy Conn, boxer, 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) 2000-2099 2001 - Francisco Varela, biologist and philosopher (b. 1946) 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 May 27 - May 29 - April 28 - June 28 - listing of all days FAVORITE ARTICLES: History of the World    History of the United States    History of Europe    Ancient History    History    Military History    World War I    Bombing of Dresden    California    US Constitution    Frank Sinatra    Boston    Marbury v. 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