May 28
Today is
Menstrual Hygiene Day.
Please make a note of it.
1588 The
Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, 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
James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby.
1754
French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 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
U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the
Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans.
1892 In San Francisco,
John Muir
organizes the
Sierra Club.
1907 The first
Isle of Man TT race was held.
1934 Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, 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.
Volkswagen (VW), the German automobile manufacturer is founded.
1951 The British radio comedy program
The Goon Show is broadcast on the BBC for the first time.
1958
Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's
26th of 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.
1969 - Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull were arrested at their London home and charged with possession of cannabis.
1977 In Southgate, Kentucky, the
Beverly Hills Supper Club
is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers play together for the first time when they perform as part of Mike Howlett's band, Strontium 90.
1985 -
Desert Island Discs radio presenter
Roy Plomley died. He devised the BBC Radio series Desert Island Discs in 1941, and went on to present 1,791 editions of the show, which became one of the longest running radio shows in the UK.
1987
West German pilot Mathias Rust, who was 18 years old, evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the
Red Square in Moscow, Russia.
He is immediately detained and would not be released until August 3, 1988.
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,
Jim McDougal and
Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas
Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
1999 In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece
The Last Supper
is put back on display.
2002 The last steel girder is removed from the original
World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.
2011 Malta votes on the
introduction of divorce. Welcome to the nineteenth century, Malta.
Births
1818 P. G. T. Beauregard; 1888 Jim Thorpe; 1908 Ian Fleming; 1910 T-Bone Walker; 1917 Papa John Creach; 1922 Lou Duva (boxing manager); 1933 John Karlen ('Lacey''s husband on "
Cagney & Lacey", "
Dark Shadows"); 1936 Betty Shabazz; 1944 Rudy Giuliani; 1944 Gladys Knight; 1944 Sondra Locke; 1944 Gary Stewart, Billy Vera; 1945 Patch Adams (no,
the real one); 1945 John Fogerty; 1949 Wendy O. Williams (
Plasmatics); Kamala, The Ugandan Giant (wrestler); Townsend Coleman (voice of "
The Tick"); 1961 Michelle Collins; 1962 - Roland Gift (Fine Young Cannibals); 1964 Phil Vassar; 1968 Kylie Minogue; 1969 Rob Ford; 1971 Marco Rubio; 1977 Elisabeth Hasselbeck; 1985 Colbie Caillat
Deaths
1843 Noah Webster; 1849 Anne Brontλ; 1971 Audie Murphy; 1998 Phil Hartman; 2003 Martha Scott; 2010 Gary Coleman; 2014 Maya Angelou; 2015 Reynaldo Rey