Today in our History - (May 28)

I have lists of events and occassions happened around the world on May 28:

• 0585 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.



• 1521 - Pope Leo X signs treaty with German emperor Charles V



• 1533 - The Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declares the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid



• 1533 - The Archbishop of England declares the mariage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn to be valid



• 1664 - The first Baptist Church is organized (Boston)



• 1731 - All Hebrew books in Papal State are confiscated



• 1818 - The first steam-vessel to sail Great Lakes launched



• 1851 - Sojourner Truth attends Women's Rights Convention



• 1863 - The first black regiment (54 Massachusetts) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War



• 1901 - Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition white phosphorous)



• 1907 - The first Auto-Cycle Union Tourist Trophy



• 1918 - Tatars declares Azerbaijan, in Russian Caucasus, independent



• 1996 - This was the year "The Book Clip - Guaranteed to keep your Book Open" first appeared on the Internet.



• 1919 - Armenia declares it's Independence



• 1926 - US Customs Court created by congress



• 1928 - Dodge Brothers Inc & Chrysler Corp merged



• 1930 - The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens.



• 1934 - Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne, later becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy.



• 1934 - The Dionne quintuplets (Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie, and Yvonne) are born at the family farm in Ontario, Canada



• 1934 - The Glyndebourne festival in England is inaugurated.



• 1937 - Golden Gate Bridge in San Fransisco opens to vehicular traffic



• 1937 - Neville Chamberlain becomes British Prime Minister.



• 1937 - 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.



• 1940 - Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up. 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 - 1,800 Czechoslovakians murdered by Nazis during attack on Heydrich



• 1942 - World War II: In retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1800 people.



• 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 gain the suffrage.



• 1953 - Premier of first animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody"



• 1955 - Henry Bolte becomes Premier of the state of Victoria.



• 1956 - Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus



• 1959 - Congressional Committee of Astronautics meets Project 7 astronauts



• 1959 - Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 miles (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became first animals retrieved from a space mission



• 1961 - Amnesty International is founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)



• 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.



• 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; estimated 22,000 die & 1 million houses destroyed



• 1963 - Jomo Kenyatta becomes first PM of Kenya



• 1964 - Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Dehli



• 1964 - Number one hit on UK music charts - Cilla Black - You're My World



• 1964 - Palestine National Congress forms the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) in Jerusalem. The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.



• 1964 - Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit



• 1966 - "Ballad Of Irving" by Frank Gallop hits #34



• 1968 - Award of United States Presidential Unit Citation to D Company, 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, for the Battle of Long Tan



• 1968 - Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democratic 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 Universit Libre de Bruxelles and the Dutch-speaking Vrije Universiteit Brussel.



• 1971 - USSR Mars 3 launched, first spacecraft to soft land on Mars



• 1972 - Edward VIII, former King of the United Kingdon, dies



• 1972 - White House "plumbers" break into Democratic National HQ at Watergate



• 1974 - 26th Emmy Awards: MASH, Alan Alda & Mary Tyler Moore win



• 1974 - Emmy first Daytime Award presentation



• 1974 - Italians fascist bomb demonstrators in Brescia, 6 killed



• 1974 - Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.



• 1974 - Stephen Schwartz' musical "Magic Show" premieres at Cort Theater NYC for 1859 performances



• 1975 - Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, thus creating the Economic Community of West African States.



• 1978 - Al Unser became 5th to win Indianapolis 500 (average speed of 161.363 mph), 3 times



• 1978 - Second round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta. Elections won by incumbent Sangoul Lamizana.



• 1979 - European Market accepts Greece as member



• 1980 - Nottingham Forrest wins 25th Europe Cup 1 in Madrid



• 1982 - Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.



• 1982 - Leonard Maltin's first appearance on Entertainment Tonight



• 1982 - Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to visit Great Britain



• 1983 - "Ricky" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #63



• 1983 - Hamburger ZV wins 28th Europe Cup 1 in Athens



• 1983 - Number one hit on UK music charts - New Edition - Candy Girl



• 1985 - David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut Lebanon



• 1986 - Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados



• 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 - 60th National Spelling Bee: Stephanie Petit wins spelling aphylococci



• 1987 - A robot probe finds the wreckage of the USS Monitor near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.



• 1987 - Mathias Rust, 19, West 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



• 1988 - Genie Francis (General Hospital) weds Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek TNG)



• 1989 - Delta Burke (Designing Women) weds Gerald McRaney (Major Dad)



• 1990 - Dave Thomas Comedy Show, debuts on CBS-TV



• 1990 - Eugenia Charles' Dom'n Freedom Party wins election in Dominica



• 1990 - Longest wheelie (David Robilliard with 5 hours 12 minutes 33 seconds (Channel Islands)



• 1991 - Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa



• 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.



• 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



• 1995 - An earthquake hits the Russian town of Khabarovsk, killing 2,000 people



• 1995 - Southwestern Florida outside of Tampa begins using new area code 941



• 1995 - The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, of total population.



• 1997 - Bob Dylan hospitalized in England with histoplasmosis



• 1997 - Linda Finch completes Amelia Earhart attempted around-the-world flight



• 1997 - Tornado in Jarrell TX kills at least 28



• 1997 - Wallace Berg, 42, is 4th American to scale Mount 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.



• 1998 - Phil Hartman actor/comedian (NewsRadio, Saturday Night Live), shot to death while asleep in his bed by his wife at 49



• 1998 - Phil Hartman, comedian and actor, dies at age 49



• 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 Arklv 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.