About May 28
May 28, 2023 is the 148th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 217 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 258 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.
- 1918 –The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the Democratic Republic of Armenia declare their independence.
- 1936 –Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
- 1937 –The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.
- 1940 –World War II: Belgium surrenders to Germany to end the Battle of Belgium.
- 1940 –World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War.
- 1951 –British radio comedy programme The Goon Show was broadcast on BBC for the first time.
- 1952 –The women of Greece are given the right to vote.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1999 –In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
- 2002 –NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
- 2002 –The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars.
- 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.
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