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
- 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.
- 1830 –President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans.
- 1892 –In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
- 1940 –World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War.
- 1952 –The women of Greece are given the right to vote.
- 1974 –Northern Ireland’s power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.
- 1975 –Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.
- 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.
- 2010 –In West Bengal, India, a train derailment and subsequent collision kills 141 passengers.
Who were born on May 28?
- 1900 –Tommy Ladnier, American musician (d. 1939)
- 1908 –Ian Fleming, English author (d. 1964)
- 1914 –W. G. G. Duncan Smith, British World War II pilot (d. 1996)
- 1923 –Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian actor and politician (d. 1996)
- 1940 –Maeve Binchy, Irish novelist
- 1940 –Shlomo Riskin, American rabbi, founder of the Lincoln Square Synagogue
- 1955 –Mark Howe, American ice hockey player
- 1956 –Julie Peasgood, British actress
- 1981 –Eric Ghiaciuc, American football player
- 1986 –Charles N'Zogbia, French footballer
Who died on May 28?
- 1816 –Ras Wolde Selassie, Ethiopian warlord (b. c. 1745)
- 1953 –Hori Tatsuo, Japanese writer (b. 1904)
- 1980 –Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1895)
- 1981 –Mary Lou Williams, American singer (b. 1910)
- 1981 –Stefan Wyszyński, Polish Cardinal Archbishop of Warsaw (b. 1901)
- 1994 –Julius Boros, American golfer (b. 1920)
- 2000 –George Irving Bell, American mountaineer (b. 1926)
- 2001 –Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher (b. 1946)
- 2003 –Martha Scott, American actress (b. 1912)
- 2007 –Toshikatsu Matsuoka, Japanese politician (b. 1945)
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