May
28
International Day of Action for Women's Health & Reproductive
Rights
On May 28, the Center for Reproductive Rights joins health and
women’s rights advocates from around the world in commemorating
the International Day of Action for Women’s Health.
The Center
also calls on governments to ensure access to sexual and reproductive
health services, including contraception, which is essential
to improve women and adolescent girls’ health.
“Guaranteeing
access to affordable, acceptable and good quality contraceptive
services and information, free from coercion, discrimination
and violence, is critical for achieving gender equality and
ensuring that women can participate as full members of society,”
said Lilian Sepúlveda, Deputy Director of the International
Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights.
May
28
Armenia
Republic Day, independence from the Transcaucasian Democratic
Federative Republic 1918
Azerbaijan
Republic Day, independence from the Transcaucasian Democratic
Federative Republic 1918
Events
585
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 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.
1533 – The Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declares
the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid.
1588 – 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).
1644 – Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command
of the Earl of Derby.
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 in the Battle
of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern
Pennsylvania.
1830 – President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act
which relocates Native Americans.
1892 – In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the
Sierra Club.
1905 – 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.
1918 – The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the Democratic
Republic of Armenia declare their independence.
1926 – 28th May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established
in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
1930 – The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens.
1932 – In the Netherlands, construction of the Afsluitdijk is
completed and the Zuiderzee bay is converted to the freshwater
IJsselmeer.
1934 – Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born
to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets
to survive infancy.
1936 – Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
1937 – The 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.
1940 – World War II: Belgium surrenders to Germany to end the
Battle of Belgium.
1940 – World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces
recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry
victory of the War.
1942 – World War II: in retaliation for the assassination of
Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800 people.
1951 – British radio comedy programme The Goon Show was broadcast
on BBC for the first time.
1952 – The women of Greece are given the right to vote.
1958 – Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's 26 July movement, heavily
reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in
El Uvero.
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.
1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.
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,
creating the Economic Community of West African States.
1977 – In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club
is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
1979 – Constantine Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession
of Greece with the European Economic Community.
1982 – Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at
the Battle of Goose Green.
1987 – 19-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.
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.
1993 – Eritrea and Monaco join the United Nations.
1995 – The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude
earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, half of the total
population.
1996 – U.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.
1998 – Nuclear 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.
1999 – In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work,
Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back
on display.
2002 – NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western
alliance.
2002 – The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on
the planet Mars.
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, as prime minister of Iraq's interim
government.
2008 – The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal
formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign
of the Shah dynasty.
2010 – In West Bengal, India, a train derailment and subsequent
collision kills 141 passengers.
Holidays
and observances
Armed Forces
Day (Croatia)
Christian Feast Day:
Bernard of Menthon
Germain of Paris
Lanfranc
Margaret Pole
William of Gellone
May 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Downfall of the Derg Day, a National Day. (Ethiopia)
Flag Day (Philippines)
Republic Day (Nepal)
Republic Day, celebrates the declaration of independence of
the Democratic Republic of Armenia and the Azerbaijan Democratic
Republic from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic
in 1918. (Azerbaijan and Armenia)
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