What are the important events that happened on May 28? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
May 28: Facts & Myths About This Day
May 28 is the 149th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 217 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 15, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,716,854,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectatetracontaenneagon’ day.
Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 246 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,176 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 28 Historical Events
- 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 Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the Democratic Republic of Armenia declare their independence.
- 1926 –28th May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
- 1934 –Near Callander, Ontario, 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.
- 1940 –World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War.
- 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.
- 1987 –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.
- 2003 –Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct.
Who were born on May 28?
- 1883 –Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian revolutionary and politician (d. 1966)
- 1934 –Emilie Dionne, Dionne quintuplets (d. 1954)
- 1947 –Zahi Hawass, Egyptian egyptologist
- 1955 –John McGeoch, Scottish guitarist (Siouxsie and the Banshees, Public Image Ltd.) (d. 2004)
- 1962 –Roland Gift, English singer (Fine Young Cannibals)
- 1964 –Phil Vassar, American country singer
- 1970 –Paul Sinha, British stand-up comedian
- 1980 –Miguel Pérez, Spanish footballer
- 1983 –Toby Hemingway, British actor
- 1986 –Berrick Barnes, Australian rugby player
Who died on May 28?
- 1672 –John Trevor, English politician (b. 1626)
- 1787 –Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1719)
- 1805 –Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (b. 1743)
- 1828 –Daikokuya Kōdayū, Japanese castaway (b. 1751)
- 1981 –Stefan Wyszyński, Polish Cardinal Archbishop of Warsaw (b. 1901)
- 1982 –Lt Col H. Jones VC, British army officer (b. 1940)
- 2001 –Joe Moakley, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts (b. 1927)
- 2003 –Martha Scott, American actress (b. 1912)
- 2007 –David Lane, American white nationalist (b. 1938)
- 2008 –Robert Justman, American television producer (b. 1926)
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