Events
of the day
International
Day of Action for Women's Health & Reproductive
Rights
On May 28, the Center for Reproductive Rights
joins health and womenβs rights advocates
from around the world in commemorating the
International Day of Action for Womenβs
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
girlsβ health.
585
BC β 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 β 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 β The Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas
Cranmer declares the marriage of King Henry
VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid.
1588 β 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 β Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops
under the command of the Earl of Derby.
1754 β 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 β President Andrew Jackson signs the
Indian Removal Act which relocates Native
Americans.
1892 β In San Francisco, California, John
Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
1905 β 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 β The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
and the Democratic Republic of Armenia declare
their independence.
1926 β 28th May 1926 coup d'Γ©tat: Ditadura
Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress
the unrest of the First Republic.
1930 β The Chrysler Building in New York
City officially opens.
1932 β In the Netherlands, construction
of the Afsluitdijk is completed and the
Zuiderzee bay is converted to the freshwater
IJsselmeer.
1934 β Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne
quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire
Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets
to survive infancy.
1936 β Alan Turing submits On Computable
Numbers for publication.
1937 β 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 β World War II: Belgium surrenders
to Germany to end the Battle of Belgium.
1940 β World War II: Norwegian, French,
Polish and British forces recapture Narvik
in Norway. This is the first allied infantry
victory of the War.
1942 β World War II: in retaliation for
the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich,
Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800
people.
1951 β British radio comedy programme The
Goon Show was broadcast on BBC for the first
time.
1952 β The women of Greece are given the
right to vote.
1958 β Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's
26 July movement, heavily reinforced by
Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post
in El Uvero.
1961 β 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 β The Palestine Liberation Organization
is formed.
1974 β Northern Ireland's power-sharing
Sunningdale Agreement collapses following
a general strike by loyalists.
1975 β Fifteen West African countries sign
the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic
Community of West African States.
1977 β In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly
Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing
165 people inside.
1979 β Constantine Karamanlis signs the
full treaty of the accession of Greece with
the European Economic Community.
1982 β Falklands War: British forces defeat
the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
1987 β 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 β 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 β Eritrea and Monaco join the United
Nations.
1995 β 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 β 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 β 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 β In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of
restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece
The Last Supper is put back on display.
2002 β NATO declares Russia a limited partner
in the Western alliance.
2002 β The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large
ice deposits on the planet Mars.
2003 β Peter Hollingworth becomes the first
Governor-General of Australia to resign
his office as a result of criticism of his
conduct.
2004 β The Iraqi Governing Council chooses
Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein
exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim
government.
2008 β The first meeting of the Constituent
Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal
a republic, ending the 240-year reign of
the Shah dynasty.
2010 β 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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