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 148^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 217 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 15, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 485,664 hours 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 ‘hectatetracontaoctagon’ 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 265 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 4,541 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

May 28 Historical Events

• 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.
• 1533 –
  The Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid.
• 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.
• 1940 –
  World War II: Belgium surrenders to Germany to end the Battle of Belgium.
• 1979 –
  Constantine Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
• 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, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas 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 codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
• 2002 –
  The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars.
• 2008 –
  The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.

Who were born on May 28?

• 1837 –
  Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (d. 1908)
• 1883 –
  Clough Williams-Ellis, Welsh architect (d. 1978)
• 1886 –
  Santo Trafficante, Sr., Sicilian-born American mobster (d. 1954)
• 1925 –
  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone
• 1931 –
  Carroll Baker, American actress
• 1933 –
  John Karlen, American actor
• 1934 –
  Annette Dionne, Dionne quintuplets
• 1943 –
  Terry Crisp, Canadian hockey coach
• 1962 –
  Roland Gift, English singer (Fine Young Cannibals)
• 1967 –
  Glen Rice, American basketball player

Who died on May 28?

• 1357 –
  King Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1291)
• 1805 –
  Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (b. 1743)
• 1828 –
  Daikokuya Kōdayū, Japanese castaway (b. 1751)
• 1878 –
  John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
• 1927 –
  Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (b. 1878)
• 1937 –
  Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (b. 1870)
• 1946 –
  Carter Glass, American politician (b. 1858)
• 1978 –
  Arthur Brough, English actor (b. 1905)
• 2004 –
  Francis Brunn, German juggler (b. 1922)
• 2006 –
  Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (b. 1920)