May 28 Events |
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| May 28th, 2008 (May 28 2008) | Event | The first meet of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a Federal Democratic Republic ending the reign of 450 year old Shah Dynasty that ruled the Unified Nepal for 240 years. | |
| May 28th, 2004 (May 28 2004) | Event | The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, to become prime minister of Iraq s interim government. | Saddam Hussein Quotes |
| May 28th, 2003 (May 28 2003) | Event | Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct. | |
| May 28th, 2002 (May 28 2002) | Event | NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance. | |
| May 28th, 1999 (May 28 1999) | Event | In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci s masterpiece "The Last Supper" is put back on display. | |
| May 28th, 1999 (May 28 1999) | Event | Two Swedish police officers are murdered with their own fire arms by the bank robbers Jackie Arklov and Tony Olsson after a dramatic car chase. | |
| May 28th, 1998 (May 28 1998) | Event | 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. | |
| May 28th, 1996 (May 28 1996) | Event | 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. | Bill Clinton Quotes |
| May 28th, 1995 (May 28 1995) | Event | The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, ? of total population. | |
| May 28th, 1991 (May 28 1991) | Event | 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. | |
| May 28th, 1987 (May 28 1987) | Event | 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. | |
| May 28th, 1987 (May 28 1987) | Event | A robot probe finds the wreckage of the USS Monitor near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. | |
| May 28th, 1982 (May 28 1982) | Event | Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green. | |
| May 28th, 1979 (May 28 1979) | Event | Constantine Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community. | |
| May 28th, 1978 (May 28 1978) | Event | Second round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta. The election is won by incumbent Sangoule Lamizana. | |
| May 28th, 1977 (May 28 1977) | Event | In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside. | |
| May 28th, 1975 (May 28 1975) | Event | Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States. | |
| May 28th, 1974 (May 28 1974) | Event | Northern Ireland s power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists. | |
| May 28th, 1970 (May 28 1970) | Event | The formerly united Free University of Brussels officially splits into two separate entities, the French-speaking Universite Libre de Bruxelles and the Dutch-speaking Vrije Universiteit Brussel. | |
| May 28th, 1964 (May 28 1964) | Event | The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed. | |
| May 28th, 1961 (May 28 1961) | Event | 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. | Peter Benenson Quotes |
| May 28th, 1955 (May 28 1955) | Event | Henry Bolte becomes Premier of the state of Victoria. | |
| May 28th, 1952 (May 28 1952) | Event | Memphis Kiddie Park opens in Brooklyn, Ohio. The park s Little Dipper roller coaster would become the oldest operating steel roller coaster in North America. | |
| May 28th, 1952 (May 28 1952) | Event | The women of Greece are given the right to vote. | |
| May 28th, 1942 (May 28 1942) | Event | World War II: in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1800 people. | Reinhard Heydrich Quotes |
| May 28th, 1940 (May 28 1940) | Event | World War II: Belgium surrenders to Germany. | |
| May 28th, 1940 (May 28 1940) | Event | World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik. This is the first allied infantry victory of World War II. | |
| May 28th, 1937 (May 28 1937) | Event | 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. | |
| May 28th, 1937 (May 28 1937) | Event | Neville Chamberlain becomes British Prime Minister. | |
| May 28th, 1936 (May 28 1936) | Event | Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication. | Alan Turing Quotes |
| May 28th, 1934 (May 28 1934) | Event | Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne, later becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy. | |
| May 28th, 1934 (May 28 1934) | Event | The Glyndebourne festival in England is inaugurated. | |
| May 28th, 1930 (May 28 1930) | Event | The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens. | |
| May 28th, 1926 (May 28 1926) | Event | 28th May 1926 coup d etat: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic. | |
| May 28th, 1918 (May 28 1918) | Event | The Democratic Republic of Armenia declares its independence. | |
| May 28th, 1918 (May 28 1918) | Event | The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic declares its independence | |
| May 28th, 1905 (May 28 1905) | Event | 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. | |
| May 28th, 1892 (May 28 1892) | Event | In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club. | John Muir Quotes |
| May 28th, 1863 (May 28 1863) | Event | American Civil War: the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first African American regiment, leaves Boston, Massachusetts, to fight for the Union. | |
| May 28th, 1830 (May 28 1830) | Event | President Andrew Jackson signs The Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans. | Andrew Jackson Quotes |
| May 28th, 1774 (May 28 1774) | Event | American Revolutionary War: the first Continental Congress convenes. | |
| May 28th, 1754 (May 28 1754) | Event | 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. | George Washington Quotes |
| May 28th, 1644 (May 28 1644) | Event | Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby. | |
| May 28th, 1588 (May 28 1588) | Event | The 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). | |
| May 28th, 1533 (May 28 1533) | Event | The Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid. | Anne Boleyn Quotes |
| May 28th, 1503 (May 28 1503) | Event | James 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. | Alexander Pope Quotes |
| May 28th, 0585 (May 28 0585) | Event | 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. | Philo Quotes |
