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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