WillDekkard
05-28-2010, 03:42 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- May 28th
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* 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.
* 1774 American Revolutionary War: the first Continental Congress convenes.
* 1830 President Andrew Jackson signs The Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans.
* 1859 Big Ben is drawn on a carriage pulled by 16 horses from Whitechapel Bell Foundry to the Palace of Westminster.
* 1863 American Civil War: The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first African American regiment, leaves Boston, Massachusetts, to fight for the Union.
* 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 Democratic Republic of Armenia and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic declare their independence.
* 1926 28th May 1926 coup d'ιtat: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
* 1930 The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens.
* 1934 Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne, and later become the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
* 1934 The Glyndebourne festival in England is inaugurated.
* 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.
* 1937 Neville Chamberlain becomes British Prime Minister.
* 1940 World War II: Belgium surrenders to Germany.
* 1940 World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik. 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 1800 people.
* 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 are given the right to vote.
* 1955 Henry Bolte becomes Premier of the state of Victoria.
* 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.
* 1970 The formerly united Free University of Brussels officially splits into two separate entities, the French-speaking Universitι Libre de Bruxelles and the Dutch-speaking Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
* 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.
* 1978 Second round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta. The election is won by incumbent Sangoulι Lamizana.
* 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 Red Square in Moscow. He is immediately detained and is not released until August 3, 1988.
* 1987 A robot probe finds the wreckage of the USS Monitor near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
* 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, 1/2 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 Arkansas Governor 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, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions.
* 1999 In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's 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 Arklφv and Tony Olsson after a car chase.
* 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.
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- May 28th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 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.
* 1774 American Revolutionary War: the first Continental Congress convenes.
* 1830 President Andrew Jackson signs The Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans.
* 1859 Big Ben is drawn on a carriage pulled by 16 horses from Whitechapel Bell Foundry to the Palace of Westminster.
* 1863 American Civil War: The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first African American regiment, leaves Boston, Massachusetts, to fight for the Union.
* 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 Democratic Republic of Armenia and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic declare their independence.
* 1926 28th May 1926 coup d'ιtat: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
* 1930 The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens.
* 1934 Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne, and later become the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
* 1934 The Glyndebourne festival in England is inaugurated.
* 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.
* 1937 Neville Chamberlain becomes British Prime Minister.
* 1940 World War II: Belgium surrenders to Germany.
* 1940 World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik. 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 1800 people.
* 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 are given the right to vote.
* 1955 Henry Bolte becomes Premier of the state of Victoria.
* 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.
* 1970 The formerly united Free University of Brussels officially splits into two separate entities, the French-speaking Universitι Libre de Bruxelles and the Dutch-speaking Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
* 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.
* 1978 Second round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta. The election is won by incumbent Sangoulι Lamizana.
* 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 Red Square in Moscow. He is immediately detained and is not released until August 3, 1988.
* 1987 A robot probe finds the wreckage of the USS Monitor near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
* 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, 1/2 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 Arkansas Governor 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, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions.
* 1999 In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's 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 Arklφv and Tony Olsson after a car chase.
* 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.
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