About May 28
May 28, 2025 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.
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Gemini is the sun 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.
What Happened On May 28
- 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.
- 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.
- 1830 –President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans.
- 1892 –In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1958 –Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro’s 26 July movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1991 –The capital city of Addis Ababa, falls to the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
- 1993 –Eritrea and Monaco join the United Nations.
- 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.
- 1999 –In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
- 2002 –The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars.
- 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.
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