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Events on the 28th of May in history

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28 May 0585 A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of Halys, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
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28 May 0585 -BC- Thales Miletus predicts solar eclispe Persian-Lydian battle ends
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28 May 0621 Battle of Hulao: Li Shimin, the son of the Chinese emperor Gao Zu, defeats the numerically superior forces of Dou Jiande near the Hulao Pass (Henan). This victory decides the outcome of the civil war that followed the Sui dynasty's collapse in favour of the Tang dynasty.
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28 May 0640 Severinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope (elected in 638)
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28 May 1037 German Emperor Koenraad II removes "Constitutio the Feudis"
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28 May 1156 Battle at Brindisi: King Willem of Sicily beats Byzantine fleet
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28 May 1349 60 Jews murdered in Breslau Silesia
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28 May 1358 Daint-Leu at Oise begins French boer uprising
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28 May 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.
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28 May 1521 Pope Leo X signs treaty with German emperor Charles V
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28 May 1533 The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid.
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28 May 1533 England's archbishop voids King Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn's marriage
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28 May 1539 Hernando de Soto lands in Florida
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28 May 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.)
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28 May 1608 Claudio Monteverdi's "Arianna" premieres in Mantua
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28 May 1635 Zorilla's "El Desafio de Carlos V" premieres in Madrid
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28 May 1644 Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby.
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28 May 1664 1st Baptist Church is organized (Boston)
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28 May 1674 German Parliament declares war on France
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28 May 1731 All Hebrew books in Papal State are confiscated
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28 May 1741 Spain & Bavaria sign treaty
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28 May 1742 1st indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London)
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28 May 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.
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28 May 1754 George Washington defeats French & Indians at Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh)
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28 May 1774 1st Continental Congress convenes (Virginia)
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28 May 1818 1st steam-vessel to sail Great Lakes launched
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28 May 1830 U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans.
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28 May 1830 Congress authorizes Indian removal from all states to western prairie
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28 May 1845 Fire in Quebec Canada, 1,500 houses destroyed
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28 May 1845 Fire in Qu
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28 May 1849 Princess WFLC Marianne & Albrecht of Prussia separate
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28 May 1851 Sojourner Truth attends Women's Rights Convention
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28 May 1858 Dion Boucicault's "Foul Play" premieres in London
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28 May 1863 1st black regiment (54 Massachusetts) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War
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28 May 1866 Dutch Government of Zuylen van Nijevelt/Heemskerk forms
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28 May 1871 Fall of the Paris Commune.
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28 May 1871 Paris communards revolt put down
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28 May 1875 3rd Preakness: L Hughes aboard Tom Ochiltree wins in 2:43
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28 May 1880 8th Preakness: L Hughes aboard Grenada wins in 2:40
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28 May 1892 In San Francisco, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
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28 May 1892 Sierra Club forms by John Muir in San Fransisco, for conservation of nature
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28 May 1894 Belgium Princess Josephine marries Prince Karl von Hohenzollern
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28 May 1900 Gare d'Orsay railway station is inaugurated in Paris.
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28 May 1900 Britain annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony)
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28 May 1900 Fire in Cincinnati nearly destroys Reds' grandstand
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28 May 1900 Solar eclipse occurs
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28 May 1901 26th Preakness: Fred Landry aboard The Parader wins in 1:47.2
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28 May 1901 Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition white phosphorous)
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28 May 1904 29th Preakness: Eugene Hildebrand aboard Bryn Mawr wins in 1:44.2
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28 May 1905 Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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28 May 1906 Shields / Cobbs musical "His honor, the Mayor, " premieres in New York City
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28 May 1906 Shields/Cobbs musical "His honor, the Mayor" premieres in NYC
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28 May 1907 Auto-Cycle Union Tourist Trophy, 1st held
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28 May 1907 The first Isle of Man TT race was held.
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28 May 1907 1st Auto-Cycle Union Tourist Trophy
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28 May 1912 Jackie Matthews takes 2 cricket hat-tricks same day Australia vs South Africa
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28 May 1915 John B Gruelle patents Raggedy Ann doll
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28 May 1918 The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the First Republic of Armenia declare their independence.
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28 May 1918 Tatars declares Azerbaijan, in Russian Caucasus, independent
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28 May 1919 Armenia declares it's independence
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28 May 1923 Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere
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28 May 1923 US unemployment has nearly ended
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28 May 1926 The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
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28 May 1926 Military coup by General Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal
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28 May 1926 US Customs Court created by congress
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28 May 1927 Hammond scores his 1,000th cricket run of the season after 22 days
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28 May 1928 Dodge Brothers Inc & Chrysler Corp merged
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28 May 1929 1st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited (NYC)
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28 May 1930 Georges Forbes succeeds Joseph Ward as premier of New Zealand
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28 May 1932 In the Netherlands, construction of the Afsluitdijk is completed and the Zuiderzee bay is converted to the freshwater IJsselmeer.
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28 May 1932 Dam closed, at current monument (South Seas)
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28 May 1934 Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
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28 May 1934 Bradman gets 160 Australia vs Middlesex, 124 minutes, 27 fours, 1x6, 1x5
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28 May 1934 Hobbs scores his 197th & last FC cricket ton at 51 years 163 days
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28 May 1936 Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
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28 May 1936 Klaipėda Radio Station begins regular broadcasting.
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28 May 1937 Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of England
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28 May 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.
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28 May 1937 Volkswagen (VW), the German automobile manufacturer is founded.
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28 May 1937 Golden Gate Bridge in San Fransisco opens to vehicular traffic
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28 May 1938 Foundation for Tel Aviv harbor laid
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28 May 1938 Hindemiths opera "Mathis der Maler" premieres in Z
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28 May 1940 World War II: Belgium surrenders to Nazi Germany to end the Battle of Belgium.
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28 May 1940 World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War.
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28 May 1940 Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up
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28 May 1940 British-French troops capture Narvik Norway
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28 May 1940 Irving Berlin's musical "Louisiana Purchase" premieres in NYC
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28 May 1941 New York Yankees nip Washingston Senators 6-5 in 1st night game at Griffith Stadium
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28 May 1941 1st night game at Washington DC, Griffith Stadium (Yankees 6, Senators 5)
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28 May 1941 British army begins evacuation of Kreta
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28 May 1942 World War II: In retaliation for the assassination attempt on Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800 people.
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28 May 1942 1,800 Czechoslovakians murdered by Nazis during attack on Heydrich
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28 May 1943 British militia reaches Tito
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28 May 1946 1st night game at Yankee Stadium (Senators 2, Yankees 1)
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28 May 1948 Daniel François Malan is elected as Prime Minister of South Africa. He later goes on to implement Apartheid.
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28 May 1948 Iraq captures Ge'ulim settlement
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28 May 1951 After going 0-for-12, Willie Mays connects for his 1st HR
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28 May 1951 Willie Mays gets his 1st major league hit, a home run
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28 May 1951 The British radio comedy program The Goon Show is broadcast on the BBC for the first time.
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28 May 1951 After going 0-for-12, Willie Mays connects for his 1st homerun (also his 1st major league hit)
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28 May 1951 Bernardus J Alfrink appointed bishop's assistant of Utrecht
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28 May 1951 Jerry Colonna Show, debuts on ABC-TV
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28 May 1952 The women of Greece are granted the right to vote.
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28 May 1953 Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody"
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28 May 1955 Bob Sweikert wins Indianapolis 500
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28 May 1955 81st Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Nashua wins in 1:54.6
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28 May 1955 Bob Sweikert wins Indianapolis 500 with an average speed of 128.213 mph
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28 May 1955 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
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28 May 1956 Dale Long becomes 1st to hit homeruns in 8 straight games
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28 May 1956 Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus
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28 May 1957 National League approves Brooklyn Dodgers' & New York Giants' move to west coast
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28 May 1957 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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28 May 1957 WPSD TV channel 6 in Paducah KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
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28 May 1958 Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.
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28 May 1958 French Government of Pflimlin resigns/200,000 demonstrate against De Gaulle
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28 May 1958 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open
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28 May 1959 Congressional Committee of Astronautics meets Project 7 astronauts
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28 May 1959 Johnson & Bart's musical "Lock Up Your Daughters" premieres in London
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28 May 1959 Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 miles (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became 1st animals retrieved from a space mission
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28 May 1960 "Greenwillow" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 95 performances
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28 May 1961 Record 27 HRs hit in 7 AL games
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28 May 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.
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28 May 1961 Amnesty International is founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)
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28 May 1961 Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on Orient Express (after 78 years)
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28 May 1961 Record 27 homeruns hit in 7 American League games
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28 May 1962 Suit alleging de facto school segregation filed in Rochester, New York
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28 May 1962 US stock market drops $20.8 B in 1 day
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28 May 1962 Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premieres on CBS radio
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28 May 1963 Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; about 1 million houses destroyed
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28 May 1963 Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India)
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28 May 1963 Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st Prime Minister of Kenya
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28 May 1963 Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; estimated 22,000 die & 1 million houses destroyed
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28 May 1964 Palestine National Congress forms the PLO in Jerusalem
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28 May 1964 The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.
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28 May 1964 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 9th String quartet
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28 May 1964 Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Dehli
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28 May 1964 Palestine National Congress forms the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) in Jerusalem
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28 May 1964 Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit
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28 May 1965 Fire & explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400
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28 May 1966 "Ballad Of Irving" by Frank Gallop hits #34
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28 May 1966 Dmitri Shostakovich's 11th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad
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28 May 1967 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 2nd Violin concerto
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28 May 1967 Francis Chichester arrives home at Plymouth from Round-the-world trip
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28 May 1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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28 May 1968 American League announces it is splitting into 2 divisions
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28 May 1968 National League grants San Diego Padres a franchise
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28 May 1968 Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democratic primary in Oregon
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28 May 1969 AC Milan wins 14th Europe Cup 1 in Madrid
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28 May 1971 Paul McCartney releases his 2nd solo album "Ram"
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28 May 1971 USSR Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars
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28 May 1972 White House "plumbers" break into Democratic National HQ at Watergate
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28 May 1973 Chicago White Sox beat Cleveland Indians, 6-3, in 21 innings (game started 5/26)
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28 May 1974 "Magic Show" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 1859 performances
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28 May 1974 Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.
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28 May 1974 26th Emmy Awards: MASH, Alan Alda & Mary Tyler Moore win
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28 May 1974 Emmy 1st Daytime Award presentation
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28 May 1974 Italians fascist bomb demonstrators in Brescia, 6 killed
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28 May 1974 Stephen Schwartz' musical "Magic Show" premieres at Cort Theater NYC for 1859 performances
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28 May 1975 Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.
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28 May 1975 Bayern M
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28 May 1975 Soyuz 18 launches
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28 May 1977 In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
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28 May 1977 165 killed in a fire at Beverly Hills Supper Club in Kentucky
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28 May 1978 Al Unser became 5th to win Indianapolis 500, 3 times
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28 May 1978 Al Unser became 5th to win Indianapolis 500 (average speed of 161.363 mph), 3 times
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28 May 1979 Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
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28 May 1979 European Market accepts Greece as member
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28 May 1980 2 Oakland Athletics steal home in 1st inning
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28 May 1980 Joe Darby does a standing long jump of 12'5"
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28 May 1980 Nottingham Forrest wins 25th Europe Cup 1 in Madrid
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28 May 1982 Leonard Maltin's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight
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28 May 1982 Pope John Paul II is 1st pope to visit Great Britain
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28 May 1983 "Ricky" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #63
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28 May 1983 "Ricky" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #63
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28 May 1983 Hamburger ZV wins 28th Europe Cup 1 in Athens
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28 May 1985 David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut Lebanon
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28 May 1985 Discovery moves to Vandenberg Air Force Base for mating of STS 51-G
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28 May 1986 Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados
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28 May 1986 White Sox Joe Cowley sets record striking out 1st 7 Rangers he faces
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28 May 1987 Southern League no-hit record-Bob Milacki pitches 11 1 / 3 no-hit inn
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28 May 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.
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28 May 1987 60th National Spelling Bee: Stephanie Petit wins spelling staphylococci
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28 May 1987 Baltimore Oriole Mike Young hits 2 homeruns in extra innings
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28 May 1987 Bob Milacki sets Southern league pitching record 11 1/3 no hit innings
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28 May 1987 Mathias Rust, 19, West German pilot, makes unauthorized landing in USSR
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28 May 1987 Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot
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28 May 1987 Paul Pearman jumps 21 barrels on a skateboard in Augusta
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28 May 1987 Stacking of Discovery's SRBs completed
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28 May 1988 Genie Francis (General Hospital) weds Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek TNG)
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28 May 1989 Emerson Fittipaldi wins Indianapolis 500
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28 May 1989 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
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28 May 1989 Delta Burke (Designing Women) weds Gerald McRaney (Major Dad)
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28 May 1989 Emerson Fittipaldi wins the Indianapolis 500 with an average speed of 167.581 mph
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28 May 1990 C
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28 May 1990 Dave Thomas Comedy Show, debuts on CBS-TV
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28 May 1990 Eugenia Charles' Dom'n Freedom Party wins election in Dominica
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28 May 1990 Longest wheelie (David Robilliard with 5 hours 12 minutes 33 seconds (Channel Islands)
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28 May 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.
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28 May 1991 Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa
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28 May 1992 65th National Spelling Bee: Amanda Goad wins spelling lyceum
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28 May 1993 Eritrea and Monaco join the United Nations.
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28 May 1993 200,000 demonstrate against mafia terror
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28 May 1993 Polish Government of Suchocka falls
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28 May 1994 "Cafe American, " last airs on NBC-TV
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28 May 1994 "Cafe American" last airs on NBC-TV
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28 May 1994 Twin's Dave Winfield passes Rod Carew into 15th hit list (3,054)
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28 May 1995 "Inspector Calls" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 454 performances
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28 May 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.
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28 May 1995 Alison Nichols wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
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28 May 1995 Dottie Mochrie wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Golf Game
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28 May 1995 Earthquake hits Russian town of Khabarovsk, killing 2,000 people
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28 May 1995 Southwestern Florida outside of Tampa begins using new area code 941
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28 May 1995 White Sox (5) & Tigers (7) combine for record 12 homeruns at Tiger Stadium
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28 May 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.
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28 May 1997 Tornado in Jarrell Texas kills at least 28
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28 May 1997 Bob Dylan hospitalized in England with histoplasmosis
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28 May 1997 Linda Finch completes Amelia Earhart attempted around-the-world flight
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28 May 1997 Wallace Berg, 42, is 4th American to scale Mount Everest for 3rd time
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28 May 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.
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28 May 1999 In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
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28 May 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.
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28 May 2002 NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
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28 May 2002 The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars.
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28 May 2003 Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct.
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28 May 2004 The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
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28 May 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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28 May 2010 In West Bengal, India, a train derailment and subsequent collision kills 141 passengers.
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28 May 2011 Malta votes on the introduction of divorce.
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