SomeFacts | May 28

On this day - May 28

A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and ...

621 — Battle of Hulao: Li Shimin, the son of the Chinese emperor ...

1242 — Avignonet massacre: A group of Cathars, with the probable ...

1533 — The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declares the ...

1588 — The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail ...

1644 — English Civil War: Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under ...

1754 — French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, ...

1802 — In Guadeloupe, 400 rebellious slaves, led by Louis Delgrès, ...

1830 — U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act ...

1871 — The Paris Commune falls after two months.

1892 — In San Francisco, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.

1905 — Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the ...

1907 — The first Isle of Man TT race is held.

1918 — The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the First Republic of ...

1926 — The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is ...

1932 — In the Netherlands, construction of the Afsluitdijk is ...

1934 — Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are ...

1936 — Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.

1937 — Volkswagen, the German automobile manufacturer, is founded.

1940 — World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces ...

1940 — World War II: Belgium surrenders to Nazi Germany to end the ...

1948 — Daniel François Malan is elected as Prime Minister of South ...

1958 — Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, ...

1961 — Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is ...

1962 — The Soviet Kosmos 5 satellite is launched.

1964 — The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is founded, with ...

1968 — Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 892 crashes near Nala Sopara ...

1974 — Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement ...

1975 — At Brampton Centennial Secondary School, student Michael ...

1975 — Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, ...

1977 — The Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky, is ...

1979 — Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession ...

1987 — An 18-year-old West German pilot, Mathias Rust, evades Soviet ...

1991 — The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian ...

1995 — The 7.0 Mw Neftegorsk earthquake shakes the former Russian ...

1996 — U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in ...

1998 — Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear ...

1999 — In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo ...

2002 — The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade ...

2003 — Peter Hollingworth resigns as Governor-General of Australia ...

2004 — The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime ...

2008 — The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal ...

2010 — In West Bengal, India, the Jnaneswari Express train derailment ...

2011 — Malta votes on the introduction of divorce; the proposal was ...

2012 — The Arkankergen massacre in Kazakhstan's Alakol District ...

2013 — Start of the Gezi Park protests in Turkey.

2016 — Harambe, a gorilla, is shot to death after grabbing a ...

2017 — Former Formula One driver Takuma Sato wins his first ...