On this day in History - May 28

• 0585 BC - A solar eclipse occurs, 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.
• 0640 - Severinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope (elected in 638)
• 1108 - The Forces of Castile reached Ulces Castle, and prepared for the Battle of Ulces.
• 1140 - Xin Qiji was born (d. 1207). Chinese poet.
• 1156 - Battle at Brindisi: King Willem of Sicily beats Byzantine fleet
• 1357 - King Afonso IV of Portugal dies (b. 1291).
• 1371 - John the Fearless was born (d. 1419). Duke of Burgundy.
• 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.
• 1524 - Selim II was born (d. 1574). Ottoman Emperor.
• 1533 - The Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declares the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid
• 1582 - William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele was born (d. 1662). English statesman.
• 1588 - Pierre Seguier was born (d. 1672). Chancellor of France.
• 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).
• 1641 - Janez Vajkard Valvasor was born (d. 1693). Slovenian polymath.
• 1644 - Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby.
• 1660 - King George I of Great Britain was born (d. 1727)
• 1672 - John Trevor dies (b. 1626). English politician.
• 1676 - Jacopo Riccati was born (d. 1754). Italian mathematician.
• 1692 - Joseph Butler was born. English philosopher.
• 1738 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin was born (d. 1814). French physician, inventor (guillotine).
• 1747 - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues dies (b. 1715). French writer.
• 1749 - Pierre Hubert Subleyras dies (b. 1699). French painter specialized in Historical Subjects. Mass of St Basil
• 1750 - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan dies (b. 1720).
• 1754 - 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 at Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette Couty in southwestern Pennsylvania.
• 1759 - William Pitt the Younger was born (d. 1806). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1774 - American Revolutionary War: The first Continental Congress convenes.
• 1779 - Thomas Moore was born (d. 25 Feb 1852). Poet, lyricist (Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms, The Last Rose of Summer, Oft in the Stilly Night);
• 1787 - Leopold Mozart dies (b. 1719). Austrian composer.
• 1799 - António Pereira de Sá Sotto Maior was born. Portuguese noble (Visconde de Milhaúdos).
• 1805 - Luigi Boccherini dies (b. 1743). Italian composer.
• 1807 - Louis Agassiz was born (d. 1873). Swiss-born zoologist and geologist.
• 1808 - Richard Hurd dies (b. 1720). English bishop and writer.
• 1810 - Alexandre Calame was born (d. 17 Mar 1864). Swiss painter, specialized in Landscapes
• 1811 - Henry Dundas dies (b. 1742). 1st Viscount Melville, British minister.
• 1818 - Pierre Beauregard was born. American Confederate general.
• 1830 - President Andrew Jackson signs The Indian Removal Act which relocates Indians... elsewhere.
• 1836 - Alexander Mitscherlich was born (d. 1918). German chemist.
• 1837 - George Ashlin was born (d. 1921). Irish architect.
• 1837 - Tony Pastor was born (d. 1908). American vaudeville performer.
• 1843 - Noah Webster dies (b. 1758). American author, politician, and lexicographer.
• 1849 - Anne Brontë dies (b. 1820). English author, sister of Charlotte and Emily Brontë.
• 1853 - Carl Olof Larsson was born (d. 22 Jan 1919). Swedish painter, illustrator and printmaker.
• 1858 - Carl Rickard Nyberg was born (d. 1939). Swedish inventor.
• 1863 - American Civil War: The 54th Massachusetts, the first African American regiment, leaves Boston, Massachusetts to fight for the Union.
• 1872 - Marian Smoluchowski was born (d. 1917). Polish physicist.
• 1878 - Paul Pelliot was born (d. 1945). French sinologist.
• 1878 - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell dies (b. 1792). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1883 - Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was born (d. 1966). Indian freedom fighter.
• 1883 - Clough Williams-Ellis was born (d. 1978). Welsh architect.
• 1884 - Edvard Beneš was born (d. 1948). Czech politician.
• 1884 - Lisbon Zoo is inaugurated (Portugal) / Foram inauguradas as instalações do Jardim Zoológico de Lisboa
• 1888 - Jim Thorpe was born (d. 1953). American athlete.
• 1892 - In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
• 1892 - Sepp Dietrich was born (d. 1966). German SS officer.
• 1898 - O fotógrafo italiano Secondo Pia tira as primeiras fotografias do Santo Sudário.
• 1900 - Tommy Ladnier was born (d. 1939). American jazz musician.
• 1900 - Boer War: The Orange Free State is annexedIn a proclamation timed to coincide with the Queen's birthday, General Lord Roberts renames the Orange Free State (Oranje Vrij Staat) as the Orange River Colony. Utrecht, in the Transvaal, also surrenders to the British.
• 1902 - Boer War: PeaceBoer negotiators are handed the final British proposals for the Boer surrender. The offer includes a general amnesty for all burghers except for rebels and those involved in (listed) war crimes. Rebel leaders are to be put on trial.
• 1903 - Foi inaugurada a iluminação eléctrica da cidade de Lisboa.
• 1905 - Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends. The Russian Baltic Fleet was destroyed by Admiral Togo Heihachiro and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
• 1908 - Ian Fleming was born (d. 12 Aug 1964). English author of James Bond books.
• 1909 - Red Horner was born. Canadian hockey star
• 1910 - T-Bone Walker was born (d. 1975). American singer.
• 1910 - Lady Rachel Kempson was born (d. 2003). English actress.
• 1911 - Portugal - Primeiras eleições legislativas do regime republicano. A legislação eleitoral é praticamente igual à da monarquia, não sendo estabelecido um sistema eleitoral democrático. Há 850.000 eleitores, dos quais só 60% votarão.
• 1911 - Thora Hird was born (d. 2003). British actress.
• 1911 - Fritz Hochwälder was born (d. 1986). Austrian author.
• 1912 - Patrick White was born (d. 1990). Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1912 - Herman Johannes was born (d. 1992). Indonesian professor, scientist and politician.
• 1912 - Hans Zassenhaus was born (d. 21 Nov 1991). German mathematician who did important work on Group Theory and Lie algebras. Author of Lehrbuch der Gruppentheorie (1937).
• 1913 - Ciro Monteiro was born (d. 1973). Brazilian singer and composer.
• 1914 - W. G. G. Duncan Smith was born (d. 1996). British World War II pilot.
• 1915 - Joseph Greenberg was born (d. 2001). American linguist.
• 1915 - Women in Berlin demonstrate for peace
• 1916 - Walker Percy was born (d. 1990). American author.
• 1916 - Ivan Franko dies (b. 1856). Ukrainian writer
• 1917 - Papa John Creech was born (d. 1994). Americam musician.
• 1917 - Juan Bautista Ambrosetti dies. Argentine archaelogist.
• 1918 - The Democratic Republic of Armenia and Azerbaijan Democratic Republic declare their independence from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic.
• 1918 - Club Atlético Huracán Corrientes is founded (Argentina)
• 1918 - Johnny Wayne was born (d. 1990). Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster).
• 1921 - Heinz G. Konsalik was born (d. 1999). German author.
• 1922 - Lou Duva was born. American boxing trainer.
• 1923 - György Ligeti was born. Hungarian composer.
• 1923 - Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao was born (d. 1998). Indian actor, director, producer.
• 1923 - Henry Kissinger was born. US presidential advisor
• 1925 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was born. German baritone.
• 1925 - Bülent Ecevit was born. Prime Minister of Turkey .
• 1926 - Military dictatorship established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic. / Golpe militar em Portugal iniciado em Braga e comandado pelo general Gomes da Costa, com Mendes Cabeçadas e Óscar Carmona, derruba a I República e impõe a ditadura militar pondo fim à 1.ª República. Este golpe de Estado promoveu a instauração da ditadura militar em Portugal, a que a revolução de 25 de Abril de 1974 pôs fim.
• 1927 - Boris Kustodiev dies (b. 1878). Russian painter.
• 1930 - The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens.
• 1931 - Carroll Baker was born. Actress .
• 1933 - Membros do Partido Nacional-Sindicalista, os «camisas azuis» chefiados por Rolão Preto, surgem fardados nas comemorações do 28 de Maio realizadas em Braga.
• 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 in England is inaugurated.
• 1936 - Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
• 1936 - Anastasio Somoza takes the power in Nicarágua.
• 1936 - Betty Shabazz was born. American civil rights leader and wife of Malcolm X.
• 1936 - Claude Forget was born. Quebec politician
• 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.
• 1937 - Neville Chamberlain becomes British Prime Minister.
• 1937 - Alfred Adler dies (b. 1870). Austrian psychologist.
• 1938 - Osvaldo Romberg was born. Painter, architect.
• 1938 - Jerry West was born. American basketball star.
• 1940 - World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik. First allied infantry victory in World War II.
• 1940 - World War II: Belgium surrenders to Germany.
• 1940 - Friedrich Karl von Hessen dies (b. 1868).
• 1941 - World War II: North Africa Max Schmeling, German ex-world heavyweight boxing champion, is captured whilst trying to flee British troops in Egypt.
• 1941 - Beth Howland was born. American actress ("Vera" on Alice)
• 1942 - World War II: In retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1800 people.
• 1942 - World War II: North Africa Operation Venezia:Colonel General Erwin Rommel begins his third offensive to push the British back into Egypt.
• 1942 - Stanley B. Prusiner was born. American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1943 - Terry Crisp was born. NHL Coach
• 1943 - Elena Souliotis was born (d. 2004). Greek soprano.
• 1944 - Rudy Giuliani was born. Ex-Mayor of New York City
• 1944 - Gladys Knight was born. American singer
• 1944 - Patricia Quinn was born. Northern Irish actress
• 1944 - Billy Vera was born. American actor and musician
• 1944 - Faith Brown was born. British actress
• 1945 - John Fogerty was born. American musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
• 1945 - Gary Stewart was born (d. 2003). American singer.
• 1945 - Hunter "Patch" Adams was born. American doctor
• 1946 - Satchidanandan was born. Indian-born poet
• 1946 - Skip Jutze was born. Baseball player
• 1947 - Sondra Locke was born. American actress
• 1947 - Zahi Hawass was born. Egyptologist
• 1947 - August Eigruber dies (b. 1907). Austrian war criminal.
• 1948 - Unity Mitford dies (b. 1914). English fascist sympathizer.
• 1949 - Wendy O. Williams was born (d. 1998). American musician ("The Plasmatics").
• 1950 - Jim Harris was born. American professional wrestler
• 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.
• 1952 - Russell J. Wintner was born. American Hollywood executive
• 1952 - Porto, Portugal: Estádio das Antas is inaugurated / É inaugurado no Porto o Estádio das Antas.
• 1955 - Henry Bolte becomes Premier of the state of Victoria.
• 1955 - John McGeoch was born (d. 4 Mar 2004). Scottish musician, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
• 1955 - Mark Howe was born. Professional ice hockey player
• 1956 - Julie Peasgood was born. British actress
• 1956 - Jerry Douglas (musician) was born. American dobro player
• 1957 - Ben Howland was born. NCAA basketball coach
• 1957 - Kirk Gibson was born. Baseball player.
• 1959 - John Morgan was born (d. 2000). Etiquette expert.
• 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. Amnesty International founded - (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)
• 1962 - Brandon Cruz was born. American actor
• 1962 - Roland Gift was born. English musician (Fine Young Cannibals)
• 1962 - James Michael Tyler was born. Actor-best known as Gunther on "Friends".
• 1963 - Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; about 1 million houses destroyed
• 1963 - Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India)
• 1963 - Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st PM of Kenya.
• 1963 - Em Portugal, o tecto da estação ferroviária do Cais do Sodré desabou provocando um elevado número de mortos e ferido.
• 1963 - OTAN anuncia a instalação da base de comando da Zona Ibero­Atlântica em Portugal
• 1963 - Houman Younessi was born. Iranian-born scientist
• 1964 - The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.
• 1964 - Christa Miller was born. American actress (The Drew Carey Show, Scrubs).
• 1964 - Jeff Fenech was born. Australian boxer
• 1964 - David Baddiel was born. English comedian, novelist and television presenter
• 1964 - Phil Vassar was born. Country music artist
• 1965 - Chris Ballew was born. American musician.
• 1968 - Kylie Minogue was born. Actress and singer.
• 1968 - Cornelis Theodorus Maria Kees van Dongen, dies (b. 26 Jan 1877). Dutch-born French Fauvist painter and printmaker. He was a member of Die Brücke
• 1968 - Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov dies (b. 1908). Yakut-born Soviet sniper.
• 1969 - Sound engineer Glyn Johns mixes the second of the Beatles Bootlegs.
• 1969 - A. C. Milan wins 14th Champions Europe Cup in Madrid
• 1969 - Mike DiFelice was born. Baseball player
• 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 - Morgan Fox was born. Canadian model and 1990 Playboy playmate
• 1970 - Mark Richardson was born. Drums musician (Skunk Anansie).
• 1970 - Ian Cashmore was born. UK actor, tv presenter & paranormal investigator
• 1971 - Isabelle Carré was born. French actress
• 1971 - Ekaterina Gordeeva was born. Russian Olympic and World Figure Skating Champion
• 1971 - Audie Murphy dies (b. 1924). American actor and war hero.
• 1971 - Jean Vilar dies (b. 1912). French actor.
• 1972 - Michael Boogerd was born. Dutch cyclist.
• 1972 - Guidoni Junior Doriva was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1972 - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom dies (b. 1894)
• 1974 - Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.
• 1975 - Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos thus creating the Economic Community of West African States.
• 1975 - Bayern Munchen wins 20th Champions Europe Cup in Paris
• 1975 - Portugal: - As sedes do MRPP são ocupadas pelo Comando Operacional do Continente (COPCON), comandado por Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, que prende alguns dos seus dirigentes.
• 1975 - Ezzard Charles dies (b. 1921). Heavyweight champion.
• 1976 - Liam O'Brien was born. American voice actor
• 1976 - Alexei Nemov was born. Russian gymnast
• 1976 - Glenn Morrison was born. Rugby League Player
• 1976 - Steffan Danielsen dies (b. 1922). Faroese painter.
• 1977 - In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
• 1977 - Jeremy Borash was born. American professional wrestling announcer
• 1977 - Elisabeth Hasselbeck was born. American television panelist (The View)
• 1978 - Second round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta. Elections won by incumbent Sangoulé Lamizana.
• 1978 - Arthur Brough dies (b. 1905). English actor.
• 1979 - Constantine Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
• 1979 - Jesse Bradford was born. American actor
• 1979 - Monica Keena was born. American actress
• 1980 - Mark Feehily was born. Member of the Irish boyband Westlife
• 1980 - Nottingham Forrest wins 25th Champions Europe Cup in Madrid
• 1980 - Mark Feehily was born. Irish musician (Westlife)
• 1980 - Miguel Pérez was born. Spanish footballer
• 1980 - Rolf Nevanlinna dies (b. 1895). Finnish mathematician.
• 1981 - Adam Green was born. American singer and songwriter
• 1981 - Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński dies (b. 1901). Archbishop of Warsaw.
• 1982 - Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
• 1982 - Alexa Davalos was born. American actress
• 1982 - Jhonny Peralta was born. American baseball player.
• 1983 - Hamburger ZV wins 28th Champions Europe Cup in Athens.
• 1983 - Actress and singer Irene Cara started a six week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Flashdance...What A Feeling'. Taken from the film 'Flashdance', a No.2 hit in the UK.
• 1984 - Eric Morecambe dies (b. 1926). British comedian (Morecambe and Wise).
• 1986 - Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados.
• 1986 - Charles N'Zogbia dies. French footballer.
• 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 will later be released on August 3, 1988.
• 1987 - A robot probe finds the wreckage of the USS Monitor near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
• 1988 - Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler married second wife Teresa Barrick in her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
• 1988 - Alfredo Volpi dies. Italian painter.
• 1988 - Sy Oliver dies (b. 1910). Jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader.
• 1989 - Baltazar Lopes dies at 83. Cape Verdian writer.
• 1990 - César Gaviria Trujillo installed as President of Colombia .
• 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.
• 1991 - Valeriu Muravschi assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Moldávia.
• 1993 - Polish government of Suchocka falls
• 1993 - Newly independent Eritrea becomes a member of the United Nations.
• 1993 - Billy Conn dies (b. 1917). American boxer (World light heavyweight champion from 1939-1941) and actor
• 1994 - Julius Boros dies (b. 1920). American golfer.
• 1994 - Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr. dies (b. 1916). American writer.
• 1995 - The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, ⅔ of total population.
• 1995 - An outbreak of the Ebola virus kills 153 people in Zaire.
• 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.
• 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 - Comic actor Phil Hartman of Saturday Night Live is shot to death at his home in Encino, California, by his wife, Brynn Hartman, who then kills herself.
• 1998 - Phil Hartman dies (b. 1948). Canadian actor and comedian.
• 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.
• 2000 - The volcano Mount Cameroon erupts.
• 2000 - Britney Spears was at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Oops!...I Did It Again'.
• 2001 - Francisco Varela dies (b. 1946). Chilean biologist and philosopher.
• 2002 - Jean Berger dies (b. 1909). German-born composer.
• 2002 - Washington DC's medical examiner declares that Chandra Levy's death was the result of homicide.
• 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 - Ilya Prigogine dies (b. 1917). Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• 2003 - Alexander Heimann dies. Author.
• 2003 - Oleg Makarov dies (b. 1933). Cosmonaut.
• 2003 - Martha Scott dies (b. 1912). American actress.
• 2003 - Ilya Prigogine dies (b. 1907). Winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry - 1977
• 2004 - The cable TV channels TechTV and G4 merge.
• 2004 - Reverend Thomas L. Gross canonically elected Administrator of the Diocese of Honolulu by the diocesan College of Consultors
• 2004 - Conselho de Governo iraquiano escolhe Iyad Allawi para o cargo de primeiro-ministro.
• 2004 - Paul McCartney opens Rock in Rio in Lisbon, Portugal
• 2004 - Umberto Agnelli dies (b. 1934). Italian businessman.
• 2005 - Cimeira Ibero-Americana, em Guimarães. Portugal e Espanha decidem propor à União Europeia o relançamento de negociações com o Mercosul.
• 2005 - Jean Négroni dies (b. 4 Dec 1920). French actor and comedian.
• 2006 - German-born Pope Benedict XVI visits Auschwitz to conclude his pilgrimage to Poland.
• 2006 - Barry Bonds hits his 715th career home run, surpassing Babe Ruth for second place on the all time list.
• 2006 - Thorleif Schjelderup dies (b. 1920). Norwegian author and ski jumper.
• Republic Day in Azerbaijan and Armenia (both 1918)