What happened this day in history May 28

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 148th 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, 1,748,390,400 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 ‘hectatetracontaoctagon’ day.

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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.

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May 28 Historical Events

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1798
    The United States Congress empowers president John Adams to enlist 10,000 men for service in case of a declaration of war or invasion of the country’s domain. It also authorizes Adams to instruct commanders of ships-of-war to seize armed French vessels preying upon or attacking American merchantmen about the coast.
  • 1979
    Constantine Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 2010
    In West Bengal, India, a train derailment and subsequent collision kills 141 passengers.

Who were born on May 28?

  • 1588
    Pierre Séguier, Chancellor of France (d. 1672)
  • 1858
    Carl Rickard Nyberg, Swedish inventor (d. 1939)
  • 1878
    Paul Pelliot, French sinologist (d. 1945)
  • 1889
    Richard Réti, Austrian-Czech chess grandmaster (d. 1929)
  • 1910
    T-Bone Walker, American singer (d. 1975)
  • 1917
    Papa John Creach, American fiddler (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna) (d. 1994)
  • 1944
    Billy Vera, American actor and singer-songwriter
  • 1971
    Marco Rubio, American politician, senator from Florida
  • 1979
    Jesse Bradford, American actor
  • 1981
    Aaron Schock, American politician

Who died on May 28?

  • 1672
    John Trevor, English politician (b. 1626)
  • 1916
    Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1856)
  • 1937
    Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (b. 1870)
  • 1972
    King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
  • 1981
    Mary Lou Williams, American singer (b. 1910)
  • 2002
    Jean Berger, German composer (b. 1909)
  • 2004
    Umberto Agnelli, Italian automobile executive (b. 1934)
  • 2007
    Toshikatsu Matsuoka, Japanese politician (b. 1945)
  • 2008
    Beryl Cook, English painter (b. 1926)
  • 2010
    Gary Coleman, American actor (b. 1968)

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