Notable Historical Events on May 28th
May 28th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
585 |
Solar eclipse, as predicted by Greek philosopher Thales, while Lydians under Alyattes war with the Medes under Cyaxares, leading to a truce. One of the cardinal dates from which other dates calculated. |
BC AD | |
640 |
Severinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope (elected in 638) |
1037 |
German emperor Koenraad II removes "Constitutio the Feudis" |
1156 |
Battle at Brindisi: Norman-Sicillian King William beats Byzantine fleet under John Doukas and Alexios Bryennios |
1349 |
60 Jews murdered in Breslau Silesia |
1358 |
Daint-Leu at Oise begins French boer uprising |
1431 |
Joan of Arc accused of relapsing back into heresy by donning male clothing again, providing justification for her execution |
1521 |
Pope Leo X signs treaty with Holy Roman Emperor Charles V |
1588 |
Spanish Armada under the Duke of Medina-Sidonia departs Lisbon to invade England |
1608 |
Claudio Monteverdi's "Arianna" premieres in Mantua |
1635 |
Zorilla's "El Desafio de Carlos V" premieres in Madrid |
1644 |
Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby. (English Civil War) |
1664 |
1st Baptist Church organizes (Boston) |
1674 |
German Parliament declares war on France |
1731 |
All Hebrew books in Papal State are confiscated |
1741 |
Spain & Bavaria sign treaty |
1742 |
1st indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London) |
1754 |
Battle of Jumonville Glen: forces led by George Washington kill French Canadian officer Joseph Coulon de Jumonville |
1774 |
1st Continental Congress convenes (Virginia) |
1818 |
1st steam vessel to sail Great Lakes launched |
1830 |
US Congress authorizes native Indian removal from all states to western prairie |
1845 |
Fire in Quebec, Canada, 1,500 houses destroyed |
1849 |
Princess Marianne of the Netherlands & Albrecht of Prussia separate |
1858 |
Dion Boucicault's "Foul Play" premieres in London |
1863 |
1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War |
1866 |
Dutch government of Zuylen van Nijevelt/Heemskerk forms |
1871 |
Paris communards revolt put down |
1875 |
3rd Preakness: L Hughes aboard Tom Ochiltree wins in 2:43.5 |
1880 |
8th Preakness: L Hughes aboard Grenada wins in 2:40.5 |
1889 |
Édouard and André Michelin incorporate the Michelin tyre company |
1892 |
Sierra Club forms by John Muir in SF, for conservation of nature |
1900 |
Fire in Cincinnati nearly destroys Reds' grandstand |
1900 |
Solar eclipse occurs |
1900 |
In China, rioters provoked by Boxers burn the Fengtai Railway Station, where many Belgians work |
1900 |
Paul Kruger, President of the Boer Republic of South Africa, flees its capital, Pretoria, and goes to Watervalboven to evade the advancing British. |
1901 |
26th Preakness: Fred Landry aboard The Parader wins in 1:47.2 |
1901 |
Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition white phosphorous) |
1904 |
29th Preakness: Eugene Hildebrand aboard Bryn Mawr wins in 1:44.2 |
1906 |
Shields/Cobbs musical "His honor, the Mayor" premieres in NYC |
1907 |
Auto-Cycle Union Tourist Trophy, 1st held |
1912 |
Jackie Matthews takes 2 cricket hat-tricks same day Aust v South Africa |
1918 |
Azerbaijan gains independence and declares itself a Democratic Republic |
1919 |
Armenia declares its Independence |
1923 |
Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere |
1923 |
US unemployment has nearly ended |
1926 |
Military coup by Gen Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal |
1926 |
US Customs Court created by congress |
1927 |
Hammond scores his 1,000th cricket run of the season after 22 days |
1928 |
Dodge Brothers Inc & Chrysler Corp merged |
1929 |
1st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited (NYC) |
1930 |
Georges Forbes succeeds Joseph Ward as premier of New Zealand |
1932 |
Dam closed, at current monument (South Seas) |
1934 |
Bradman gets 160 Aust v Middlesex, 124 mins, 27 fours, 1x6, 1x5 |
1934 |
Hobbs scores his 197th & last FC cricket ton at 51 years 163 days |
1934 |
Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne, later becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy. |
1934 |
The Glyndebourne festival in Sussex, England, is inaugurated. |
1936 |
Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers" for publication, in which he set out the theoretical basis for modern computers. |
1937 |
Golden Gate Bridge in SF opens to vehicular traffic |
1937 |
Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
1938 |
Foundation for Tel Aviv harbor laid |
1938 |
Hindemiths opera "Mathis der Maler" premieres in Zurich |
1940 |
Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up |
1940 |
British-French troops capture Narvik, Norway |
1940 |
Irving Berlin's musical "Louisiana Purchase" premieres in NYC |
1941 |
1st night game at Wash DC, Griffith stadium (Yanks 6, Senators 5) |
1941 |
British army begins evacuation of Crete |
1941 |
NY Yankees nip Wash Senators 6-5 in 1st night game at Griffith Stadium |
1942 |
1,800 Czechs murdered by Nazis during attack on Heydrich |
1943 |
British miliitary reaches Tito |
1946 |
1st night game at Yankee stadium (Senators 2, Yanks 1) |
1946 |
Manuel Roxas was inaugurated as the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines |
1948 |
Iraq captures Ge'ulim settlement |
1951 |
After going 0-for-12, Willie Mays connects for his 1st major league home run |
1951 |
Bernardus J Alfrink appointed bishop's asst of Utrecht |
1951 |
Jerry Colonna Show, debuts on ABC-TV |
1952 |
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. |
1952 |
The women of Greece are given the right to vote. |
1953 |
Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody" |
1955 |
81st Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Nashua wins in 1:54.6 |
1955 |
Indianapolis 500: Bob Sweikert wins |
1955 |
Fay Crocker wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open |
1955 |
Henry Bolte becomes Premier of the state of Victoria. |
1956 |
Dale Long becomes 1st to hit HRs in 8 straight games |
1956 |
Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus |
1957 |
NL approves Brooklyn Dodgers' & NY Giants' move to west coast |
1957 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1957 |
WPSD TV channel 6 in Paducah, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1958 |
French government of Pflimlin resigns/200,000 demonstrate against De Gaulle |
1958 |
Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open |
1958 |
Real Madrid wins 3rd Europe Cup 1 in Brussels |
1959 |
Congressional Committee of Astronautics meets Project 7 astronauts |
1959 |
Johnson & Bart's musical "Lock up your daughters" premieres in London |
1959 |
Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 mi (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became 1st animals retrieved from a space mission |
1960 |
"Greenwillow" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 95 performances |
1961 |
Amnesty Intl founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977) |
1961 |
Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on Orient Express (after 78 years) |
1961 |
Record 27 HRs hit in 7 AL games |
1962 |
Suit alleging de facto school segregation filed in Rochester NY |
1962 |
US stock market drops $20.8 B in 1 day |
1962 |
Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premieres on CBS radio |
1963 |
Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; about 1 million houses destroyed |
1963 |
Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India) |
1964 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 9th String quartet |
1964 |
Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Dehli |
1964 |
Palestine National Congress forms the PLO in Jerusalem |
1964 |
Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit |
1965 |
Fire & explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400 |
1966 |
"Ballad Of Irving" by Frank Gallop hits #34 |
1966 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 11th String quartet premieres in Leningrad |
1967 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd Violin concert |
1967 |
Francis Chichester arrives home at Plymouth from Round-the-world trip |
1967 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1968 |
AL announces it is splitting into 2 divisions |
1968 |
NL grants San Diego Padres a franchise |
1968 |
Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democrate primary in Oregon |
1969 |
AC Milan wins 14th Europe Cup 1 in Madrid |
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. |
1970 |
Arms Trial Begins: several men are charged in a Dublin court with conspiracy to illegally import arms for use by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) |
1971 |
Paul McCartney releases his 2nd solo album "Ram" |
1971 |
USSR Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars |
1972 |
White House "plumbers" break into Democratic Natlional HQ at Watergate |
1972 |
Four Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and four civilians killed when a bomb they were preparing exploded prematurely at a house in Belfast |
1973 |
Chicago White Sox beat Cleve Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game started 5/26) |
1973 |
Indianapolis 500: Gordon Johncock wins in 2:05:25.320 (255.944 km/h) |
1974 |
"Magic Show" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 1859 performances |
1974 |
26th Emmy Awards: MASH, Alan Alda & Mary Tyler Moore win |
1974 |
Emmy 1st Daytime Award presentation |
1974 |
Italian fascists bomb demonstrators in Brescia, 6 killed |
1974 |
Stephen Schwartz' musical "Magic Show" premieres in NYC |
1975 |
Bayern Munchen wins 20th Europe Cup 1 in Paris |
1975 |
Soyuz 18 launches |
1977 |
165 killed in a fire at Beverly Hills Supper Club in Kentucky |
1978 |
Indianapolis 500: Al Unser became 5th to win the race 3 times |
1978 |
Second round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta. The election is won by incumbent Sangoulé Lamizana. |
1979 |
European Market accepts Greece as member |
1980 |
2 Oakland A's steal home in 1st inning |
1980 |
Joe Darby does a standing long jump of 12'5" |
1980 |
Nottingham Forest wins 25th Europe Cup in Madrid |
1982 |
Leonard Maltin's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight |
1982 |
Pope John Paul II is 1st reigning pope to visit Great Britain (Adrian IV was born in England, as Nicholas Breakspear) |
1983 |
"Ricky" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #63 |
1983 |
Hamburger ZV wins 28th Europe Cup 1 in Athens |
1985 |
David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut Lebanon |
1985 |
Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-G |
1986 |
Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados |
1986 |
White Sox Joe Cowley sets record striking out 1st 7 Rangers he faces |
1987 |
60th National Spelling Bee: Stephanie Petit wins spelling staphylococci |
1987 |
Mathias Rust, 19, W German pilot, makes unauthorized landing in USSR |
1987 |
Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot |
1987 |
Paul Pearman jumps 21 barrels on a skateboard in Augusta |
1987 |
Southern League no-hit record-Bob Milacki pitches 11 1/3 no-hit inn |
1987 |
Stacking of Discovery's SRBs completed |
1989 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
1989 |
Indianapolis 500: Emerson Fittipaldi wins |
1990 |
Cesar Gaviria Trujillo installed as president of Colombia |
1990 |
Dave Thomas Comedy Show, debuts on CBS-TV |
1990 |
Eugenia Charles' Dominican Freedom Party wins election in Dominica |
1990 |
Longest wheelie (David Robilliard with 5h12m33s (Channel Islands) |
1991 |
Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa |
1992 |
65th National Spelling Bee: Amanda Goad wins spelling lyceum |
1993 |
200,000 demonstrate against mafia terror |
1993 |
Polish government of Suchocka falls |
1994 |
"Cafe American" last airs on NBC-TV |
1994 |
Twin's Dave Winfield passes Rod Carew into 15th hit list (3,054) |
1995 |
"An Inspector Calls" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 454 performances |
1995 |
Alison Nichols wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
1995 |
Dottie Mochrie wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Golf Game |
1995 |
Earthquake hits Russian town of Khabarovsk, killing 2,000 people |
1995 |
Southwestern Florida outside of Tampa begins using new area code 941 |
1995 |
White Sox (5) & Tigers (7) combine for record 12 HRs at Tiger Stadium |
1995 |
Indianapolis 500: Jacques Villeneuve wins in 3:15:17.561 (247.221 km/h) |
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. |
1997 |
Bob Dylan hospitalized in England with histoplasmosis |
1997 |
Linda Finch completes Amelia Earhart attempted around-the-world flight |
1997 |
Tornado in Jarrell Texas kills at least 28 |
1997 |
Wallace Berg, 42, is 4th American to scale Mt Everest for 3rd time |
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 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. |
2000 |
Indianapolis 500: Juan Pablo Montoya wins in 2:58:59.431 (269.737 km/h) |
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. |
2003 |
Patrick Roy officially announces his retirement from the NHL |
2004 |
The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, to become Prime Minister of Iraq's interim government. |
2006 |
Indianapolis 500: Sam Hornish Jr wins in 3:10:58.7590 (252.804 km/h) |
2006 |
Barry Bonds hits his 715th career home run, passing Babe Ruth on the all-time list |
2008 |
The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty. |
2014 |
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is elected President of Egypt |
2016 |
New York plane crash: WW2 aircraft in Hudson River |
2016 |
US-led airstrikes kill dozens of Islamic State fighters in Fallujah |
2016 |
35 protesters arrested outside of Trump rally in San Diego |
2016 |
Amber Heard accuses estranged husband Johnny Depp of domestic violence |
2016 |
Italy navy recovered 45 bodies near half-sunken migrant boat |
2016 |
Medical experts urge delay or relocation of Olympics due to Zika |
2017 |
British Airways cancels all flights from 2 London airports amid global computer outage |
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