Fallenchungus Wiki:Selected anniversaries/May 28
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John Muir
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| 1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and over 30,000 men, set sail from Lisbon for the English Channel in an attempt to invade England. | refimprove section, trivia |
| 1802 – In an attempt to resist the reintroduction of slavery in Guadeloupe, Louis Delgrès and hundreds of his followers blew themselves up, killing many French troops in the process. | Short and missing citations |
| 1905 – Led by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō, the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima, the decisive naval battle in the Russo-Japanese War. | unreferenced content |
| 1918 – The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, the first successful democratic republic in the Muslim world, was proclaimed in Ganja by the Azerbaijani National Council. | refimprove section |
| 1940 – World War II: On the same day that Belgium surrendered to Germany, Allied forces gained their first major victory on land when they recaptured Narvik, Norway. | Narvik: refimprove section |
| 1961 – The British newspaper The Observer published English lawyer Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners, starting a letter-writing campaign that grew and became the human rights organization Amnesty International. | unreferenced section |
| 1974 – After widespread loyalist opposition and a two-week general strike, the power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement between Northern Ireland and a cross-border Council of Ireland collapsed. | refimprove |
| 1975 – Sixteen West African countries signed the Treaty of Lagos, establishing the Economic Community of West African States to promote economic integration. | refimprove section |
| 1977 – A fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky, killed 165 patrons. | citations broken |
| 1998 – The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission carried out five underground nuclear tests, becoming the seventh country in the world to successfully develop and publicly test nuclear weapons. | Refs needed orange banner |
| 1999 – After 21 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's mural painting The Last Supper (pictured), in Milan, Italy, was returned to display. | Undercited |
| 2003 – As a result of criticism of his conduct, Peter Hollingworth resigned from his post as Governor-General of Australia. | Citations needed |
| 2004 – Ayad Allawi was unanimously elected by the Iraqi Governing Council to be the interim Prime Minister of Iraq. | unreferenced section |
| Patrick White |b|1912 | refimprove |
| Louis Agassiz |b|1807| | too many cn tags. Tags for OR and misuse of references. |
| Ekaterina Gordeeva |b|1971 | Too much uncited |
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- 621 – Tang forces led by Li Shimin defeated and captured Dou Jiande at the Battle of Hulao in the civil war that followed the collapse of the Sui dynasty.
- 1608 – Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi debuted his second opera L'Arianna, now one of his lost works, at a royal wedding in Mantua.
- 1830 – U.S. president Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law, authorizing him to negotiate with Native Americans for their removal from their ancestral homelands.
- 1892 – Scottish-American preservationist John Muir (pictured) founded the environmental organization Sierra Club in California.
- 1940 – Second World War: Belgium surrendered to Nazi Germany, ending the Battle of Belgium.
- 1982 – Falklands War: The British War Cabinet, which never considered using nuclear weapons in the conflict, ordered that the nuclear depth bombs on British ships return home.
- 1987 – Mathias Rust, a West German aviator, flew his Cessna 172 from Helsinki, Finland, through Soviet air defences, landing illegally near Red Square in Moscow.
- 2010 – A train derailment and collision in the West Midnapore district of West Bengal, India, caused the deaths of at least 148 passengers.
- Born/died this day: | Germain of Paris |d|576| Wulfstan |d|1023| Joseph-Ignace Guillotin |b|1738| Carl Larsson |b|1853| Mary Polly Paaaina |d|1873| Ian Fleming |b|1908| Jerry West |b|1938| Carroll Baker |b|1931| Maeve Binchy |b|1939| Gabriela Michetti |b|1965| Marco Rubio |b|1971|
Notes
- Neville Chamberlain appears on May 10, so his rise should not appear in the same year
- Pokhran-II appears on May 11 and Smiling Buddha appears on May 18, so Chagai-I should not appear in the same year
May 28: Republic Day in Armenia (1918); Independence Day in Azerbaijan (1918)
Mozaffar ad-Din
- 585 BC – According to the Greek historian Herodotus, a solar eclipse, accurately predicted by Thales of Miletus, abruptly ended the Battle of Halys between the Lydians and the Medes.
- 1644 – English Civil War: Royalist troops stormed and captured the Parliamentarian stronghold of Bolton, leading to a massacre of defenders and local residents.
- 1754 – French and Indian War: Led by 22-year-old George Washington, a company of Virginia colonial militiamen ambushed a force of 35 Canadiens at the Battle of Jumonville Glen.
- 1901 – Mozaffar ad-Din (pictured), Shah of Persia, granted exclusive rights to prospect for oil in the country to William Knox D'Arcy.
- 1937 – The rise of Neville Chamberlain culminated with his accession as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, being summoned to Buckingham Palace to "kiss hands".
- 2002 – An independent commission appointed by the Football Association voted two-to-one to allow Wimbledon F.C. to relocate from London to Milton Keynes.
- Robert Baldock (d. 1327)
- Francis Gleeson (priest) (b. 1884)
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (b. 1925)
- Kylie Minogue (b. 1968)