What happened on May 28? There are more than 282 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About May 28
May 28 is the 149th day of the year 2024. There are 217 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday. This day falls under the 22nd week of the year 2024.
On this day in Layton, Utah 84041 sunrise occured at 05:57 AM and sunset occured at 08:52 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Gemini. The modern birthstone for this month is Emerald while the mystical birthstone is Sapphire.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 246 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For May 28
- 585 BCA 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.
- 1503James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor are married according to a Papal Bull by Pope Alexander VI. A Treaty of Everlasting Peace between Scotland and England signed on that occasion results in a peace that lasts ten years.
- 1533The Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid.
- 1588The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port).
- 1644Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby.
- 1754French 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.
- 1798The United States Congress empowers president John Adams to enlist 10,000 men for service in case of a declaration of war or invasion of the country’s domain. It also authorizes Adams to instruct commanders of ships-of-war to seize armed French vessels preying upon or attacking American merchantmen about the coast.
- 1830President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans.
- 1892In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
- 1905Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Togo Heihachiro and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
- 1918The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the Democratic Republic of Armenia declare their independence.
- 192628th May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
- 1930The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens.
- 1932In the Netherlands, construction of the Afsluitdijk is completed and the Zuiderzee bay is converted to the freshwater IJsselmeer.
- 1934Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
- 1936Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
- 1937The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.
- 1940World War II: Belgium surrenders to Germany to end the Battle of Belgium.
- 1940World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War.
- 1942World War II: in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800 people.
- 1951British radio comedy programme The Goon Show was broadcast on BBC for the first time.
- 1952The women of Greece are given the right to vote.
- 1958Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro’s 26 July movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.
- 1961Peter 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.
- 1964The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.
- 1974Northern Ireland’s power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.
- 1975Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.
- 1977In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
- 1979Constantine Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
- 1982Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
- 198719-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow. He is immediately detained and will not be released until August 3, 1988.
- 1991The 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.
- 1993Eritrea and Monaco join the United Nations.
- 1995The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, half of the total population.
- 1996U.S. President Bill Clinton’s former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
- 1998Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
- 1999In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
- 2002NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
- 2002The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars.
- 2003Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct.
- 2004The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq’s interim government.
- 2008The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.
- 2010In West Bengal, India, a train derailment and subsequent collision kills 141 passengers.
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Who Were Born On May 28?
- 1140Xin Qiji, Chinese poet (d. 1207)
- 1371John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1419)
- 1524Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1574)
- 1582William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (d. 1662)
- 1588Pierre Séguier, Chancellor of France (d. 1672)
- 1641Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (d. 1693)
- 1660King George I of Great Britain (d. 1727)
- 1676Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (d. 1754)
- 1692Joseph Butler, English philosopher (d. 1752)
- 1738Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician (d. 1814)
- 1759William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1806)
- 1763Manuel Alberti, Argentine priest and head of state (d. 1811)
- 1779Thomas Moore, Irish poet (d. 1852)
- 1807Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born zoologist and geologist (d. 1873)
- 1818P.G.T. Beauregard, American Confederate general (d. 1893)
- 1836Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist (d. 1918)
- 1836Friedrich Baumfelder, German composer, conductor, and pianist (d. 1916)
- 1837George Ashlin, Irish architect (d. 1921)
- 1837Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (d. 1908)
- 1841Sakaigawa Namiemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 14th Yokozuna (d. 1887)
- 1853Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (d. 1919)
- 1858Carl Rickard Nyberg, Swedish inventor (d. 1939)
- 1872Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (d. 1917)
- 1878Paul Pelliot, French sinologist (d. 1945)
- 1879Milutin Milanković, Serbian geophysicist (d. 1958)
- 1883Clough Williams-Ellis, Welsh architect (d. 1978)
- 1883Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian revolutionary and politician (d. 1966)
- 1884Edvard Beneš, Czech politician (d. 1948)
- 1886Santo Trafficante, Sr., Sicilian-born American mobster (d. 1954)
- 1888Jim Thorpe/Wa-Tho-Huk, American pentathlete, decathlete, fotball, baseball and basketball player (d. 1953)
- 1888Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian Prime Minister (d. 1942)
- 1888Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot, English, eccentric first wife of American poet, T.S. Eliot (d. 1947)
- 1889Richard Réti, Austrian-Czech chess grandmaster (d. 1929)
- 1892Sepp Dietrich, German officer (d. 1966)
- 1900Tommy Ladnier, American musician (d. 1939)
- 1908Ian Fleming, English author (d. 1964)
- 1909Red Horner, Canadian hockey player (d. 2005)
- 1910Georg Gaßmann, German politician (d. 1987)
- 1910Lady Rachel Kempson, English actress (d. 2003)
- 1910T-Bone Walker, American singer (d. 1975)
- 1911Dame Thora Hird, British actress (d. 2003)
- 1911Fritz Hochwälder, Austrian playwright (d. 1986)
- 1912Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist and politician (d. 1992)
- 1912Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
- 1914W. G. G. Duncan Smith, British World War II pilot (d. 1996)
- 1915Joseph Greenberg, American linguist (d. 2001)
- 1916Walker Percy, American author (d. 1990)
- 1917Papa John Creach, American fiddler (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna) (d. 1994)
- 1918Johnny Wayne, Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster) (d. 1990)
- 1921Heinz G. Konsalik, German novelist (d. 1999)
- 1922Lou Duva, American boxing trainer
- 1922Roger Fisher, American law professor
- 1923György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (d. 2006)
- 1923Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian actor and politician (d. 1996)
- 1925Bülent Ecevit, Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2006)
- 1925Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone
- 1931Carroll Baker, American actress
- 1933John Karlen, American actor
- 1934Annette Dionne, Dionne quintuplets
- 1934Cecile Dionne, Dionne quintuplets
- 1934Emilie Dionne, Dionne quintuplets (d. 1954)
- 1934Marie Dionne, Dionne quintuplets (d. 1970)
- 1934Yvonne Dionne, Dionne quintuplets(d. 2001)
- 1936Betty Shabazz, American civil rights activist (d. 1997)
- 1936Claude Forget, French-Canadian politician
- 1938Jerry West, American basketball player
- 1938Prince Buster, Jamaican ska and rocksteady musician
- 1940Maeve Binchy, Irish novelist
- 1940Shlomo Riskin, American rabbi, founder of the Lincoln Square Synagogue
- 1941Beth Howland, American actress
- 1942Stanley B. Prusiner, American neurologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1943Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano (d. 2004)
- 1943Terry Crisp, Canadian hockey coach
- 1944Billy Vera, American actor and singer-songwriter
- 1944Faith Brown, British actress
- 1944Gary Stewart, American singer (d. 2003)
- 1944Gladys Knight, American R&B and soul singer and actress
- 1944Jean-Pierre Léaud, French actor
- 1944Patricia Quinn, Northern Irish actress
- 1944Rudy Giuliani, 107th Mayor of New York City
- 1945Hunter “Patch” Adams, American physician and social activist
- 1945John Fogerty, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
- 1945John N. Bambacus, American politician
- 1946Satchidanandan, Indian poet
- 1946Skip Jutze, American baseball player
- 1947Lynn Johnston, Canadian cartoonist
- 1947Sondra Locke, American actress
- 1947Zahi Hawass, Egyptian egyptologist
- 1949Wendy O. Williams, American vocalist (Plasmatics) (d. 1998)
- 1950Ian Bradley, British writer and academic
- 1950Kamala, American professional wrestler
- 1952Russell J. Wintner, American film executive
- 1953Arto Lindsay, American guitarist and singer
- 1954Andy Hamilton, British comedian
- 1954John Tory, Canadian politician
- 1954Townsend Coleman, American voice actor
- 1954Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist (d. 1988)
- 1955John McGeoch, Scottish guitarist (Siouxsie and the Banshees, Public Image Ltd.) (d. 2004)
- 1955Mark Howe, American ice hockey player
- 1956Jerry Douglas, American dobro player
- 1956Julie Peasgood, British actress
- 1956Markus Höttinger, Austrian racing driver (d. 1980)
- 1957Ben Howland, American college basketball coach
- 1957Colin Barnes, English footballer
- 1957Kirk Gibson, American baseball player
- 1959John Morgan, British etiquette expert (d. 2000)
- 1960Mark Sanford, 115th Governor of South Carolina and Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina
- 1961Michelle Collins, British actress
- 1962Brandon Cruz, American actor
- 1962James Michael Tyler, American actor
- 1962Roland Gift, English singer (Fine Young Cannibals)
- 1963Gavin Harrison, British drummer (Porcupine Tree)
- 1963Houman Younessi, Iranian-born scientist
- 1964Armen Gilliam, American basketball player
- 1964Christa Miller, American actress
- 1964David Baddiel, British comedian and television presenter
- 1964Jeff Fenech, Australian boxer
- 1964Phil Vassar, American country singer
- 1964Zsa Zsa Padilla, Filipino singer
- 1965Chris Ballew, American bassist (The Presidents of the United States of America)
- 1966Ashley Laurence, American film and television actress
- 1967Emma Kennedy, English television presenter and actress
- 1967Glen Rice, American basketball player
- 1968Kylie Minogue, Australian actress and singer
- 1969Justin Kirk, American actor
- 1969Mike DiFelice, American baseball player
- 1969Rob Ford, 64th Mayor of Toronto
- 1970Bobby Bognar, American singer (The Piper Downs)
- 1970Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (d. 2002)
- 1970Ian Cashmore, English actor and paranormal investigator
- 1970Jimi Goodwin, British bassist, vocalist and guitarist (Doves)
- 1970Morgan Fox, Canadian model and 1990 Playboy playmate
- 1970Paul Sinha, British stand-up comedian
- 1971Ekaterina Gordeeva, Russian figure skater
- 1971Isabelle Carré, French actress
- 1971Marco Rubio, American politician, senator from Florida
- 1972Doriva, Brazilian footballer
- 1972Kate Ashfield, British actress
- 1972Michael Boogerd, Dutch cyclist
- 1973Marco Paulo, Portuguese footballer
- 1974Alicia Minshew, American actress
- 1974Hans-Jörg Butt, German footballer
- 1975Charmaine Sheh, Hong Kong actress
- 1976Alexei Nemov, Russian gymnast
- 1976Glenn Morrison, Australian rugby league player
- 1976Liam O'Brien, American voice actor
- 1976Roberto Goretti, Italian footballer
- 1977Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American television panelist (The View)
- 1977Jeremy Borash, American professional wrestling announcer
- 1978Rufa Mae Quinto, Filipino actress and comedienne
- 1979Jesse Bradford, American actor
- 1979Joeri Jansen, Belgian athlete
- 1979Monica Keena, American actress
- 1979Ronald Curry, American football player
- 1980Mark Feehily, Irish vocalist (Westlife)
- 1980Miguel Pérez, Spanish footballer
- 1981Aaron Schock, American politician
- 1981Adam Green, American singer-songwriter
- 1981Daniel Cabrera, Dominican baseball player
- 1981Eric Ghiaciuc, American football player
- 1982Alexa Davalos, American actress
- 1982Desiree del Valle, Filipino actress
- 1982Jhonny Peralta, Dominican baseball player
- 1983Humberto Sanchez, Dominican baseball player
- 1983Steve Cronin, American footballer
- 1983Toby Hemingway, British actor
- 1984Beth Allen, New Zealand actress
- 1985Carey Mulligan, British actress
- 1985Colbie Caillat, American singer-songwriter
- 1985Konstantinos Mendrinos, Greek footballer
- 1986Berrick Barnes, Australian rugby player
- 1986Charles N'Zogbia, French footballer
- 1986Joseph Cross, American actor
- 1986Michael Oher, American football player
- 1988David Perron, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1988Percy Harvin, American football player
- 1990Kyle Walker, English footballer
- 1999Cameron Boyce, American child actor
- 2010Prince Louis of Bourbon, elder son of Prince Louis, Duke of Anjou
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Who Died On May 28?
- 576Saint Germain of Paris, French bishop (b. 496)
- 1023Wulfstan, English archbishop and writer (b. ?)
- 1357King Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1291)
- 1509Caterina Sforza, Countess of Forli (b. 1463)
- 1556Saitō Dōsan, Japanese daimyo (b. 1494)
- 1672John Trevor, English politician (b. 1626)
- 1747Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (b. 1715)
- 1750Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1720)
- 1787Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1719)
- 1805Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (b. 1743)
- 1808Richard Hurd, English Bishop of Worcester and writer (b. 1720)
- 1811Henry Dundas, Scottish politician (b. 1742)
- 1816Ras Wolde Selassie, Ethiopian warlord (b. c. 1745)
- 1828Daikokuya Kōdayū, Japanese castaway (b. 1751)
- 1831William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, Royal Navy admiral (b. 1756)
- 1843Noah Webster, American writer and lexicographer (b. 1758)
- 1849Anne Brontë, English novelist and poet (b. 1820)
- 1864Simion Bărnuţiu, Romanian philosopher and politician (b. 1808)
- 1878John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
- 1916Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1856)
- 1927Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (b. 1878)
- 1937Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (b. 1870)
- 1940Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (b. 1868)
- 1946Carter Glass, American politician (b. 1858)
- 1947August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (b. 1907)
- 1948Unity Mitford, English fascist sympathizer (b. 1914)
- 1953Hori Tatsuo, Japanese writer (b. 1904)
- 1968Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Soviet sniper (b. 1908)
- 1971Audie Murphy, American actor and soldier (b. 1924)
- 1971Jean Vilar, French actor (b. 1912)
- 1972King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
- 1975Ezzard Charles, American heavyweight boxing champion (b. 1921)
- 1976Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (b. 1922)
- 1978Arthur Brough, English actor (b. 1905)
- 1980Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1895)
- 1981Mary Lou Williams, American singer (b. 1910)
- 1981Stefan Wyszyński, Polish Cardinal Archbishop of Warsaw (b. 1901)
- 1982Lt Col H. Jones VC, British army officer (b. 1940)
- 1983Erastus Corning 2nd, American politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany, New York (b. 1909)
- 1984Eric Morecambe, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise) (b. 1926)
- 1988Sy Oliver, American jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader (b. 1910)
- 1994Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American writer (b. 1916)
- 1994Julius Boros, American golfer (b. 1920)
- 1998Phil Hartman, Canadian actor and comedian (b. 1948)
- 2000George Irving Bell, American mountaineer (b. 1926)
- 2001Francis Bebey, Cameroonian-born French musician and novelist (b. 1929)
- 2001Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher (b. 1946)
- 2001Joe Moakley, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts (b. 1927)
- 2002Jean Berger, German composer (b. 1909)
- 2003Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born Belgian physical chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
- 2003Martha Scott, American actress (b. 1912)
- 2003Oleg Makarov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1933)
- 2004Francis Brunn, German juggler (b. 1922)
- 2004Umberto Agnelli, Italian automobile executive (b. 1934)
- 2006Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (b. 1920)
- 2007David Lane, American white nationalist (b. 1938)
- 2007Marquise Hill, American football player (b. 1982)
- 2007Toshikatsu Matsuoka, Japanese politician (b. 1945)
- 2008Beryl Cook, English painter (b. 1926)
- 2008Robert Justman, American television producer (b. 1926)
- 2010Gary Coleman, American actor (b. 1968)
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