Subj : This Day In History
To : All
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Fri May 28 2021 12:05 am
Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
Registered to Omicron Theta
By Scott Labrecque
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Births:
05/28/1371 John the Fearless, Burgundy France, Duke of Burgundy/warrior
05/28/1577 Floris II van Pallandt, earl of Culemborg/politician
05/28/1660 George I, King of England (1714-27)
05/28/1738 Joseph I Guillotin, France, inventor (guillotine)
05/28/1759 William Pitt, the Younger (C), English PM (1783-1801, 1804-06)
05/28/1765 Jean Baptiste Cartier, composer
05/28/1777 Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, composer
05/28/1778 Friedrich Westenholz, composer
05/28/1780 Joseph Frohlich, composer
05/28/1782 Wouter J van Troostwijk, painter
05/28/1798 Josef Dessauer, composer
05/28/1807 John van Swieten, Dutch governor of West-Sumatra
05/28/1807 Louis Agassiz, Switzerland, naturalist/geologist/teacher
05/28/1810 Alexandre Calamo, Switz, painter/etcher/lithographer
05/28/1818 Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, US Confederate gen (Hero of Sumte
05/28/1819 William Birney, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1907
05/28/1828 Alpheus Baker, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
05/28/1828 Bartel Wilton, machinefabrikant/ship builder
05/28/1830 George Lucas Hartsuff, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 187
05/28/1830 Karoly Filtsch, composer
05/28/1831 Eliza Ann Gardner, underground railway conductor
05/28/1838 Basil Wilson Duke, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1916
05/28/1841 Giovanni Sgambati, composer
05/28/1844 Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, composer
05/28/1863 Georg Adler, German State house speaker
05/28/1865 Gerrit Gr�ns, physiologist (Vitamin E)
05/28/1868 Claude Anet, [Jean Schopfer], French writer (Fille Perdue)
05/28/1879 Milutin Milankovic, Yugoslavian astronomer/meterologist
05/28/1883 George Dyson, composer
05/28/1883 Luigi Perrachio, composer
05/28/1884 Edvard Benes, premier/president of Czechoslovakia (1921-22, 35-48)
05/28/1884 Theo(by) Van Re�n, sculptor/lithographer
05/28/1886 Nicolai Sokoloff, near Kiev Ukraine, conductor (Seattle Symph)
05/28/1887 Hank Mann, actor (City Lights, Smoky, Dawn Trail, Fugitive Road)
05/28/1888 James Francis Thorpe, Shawnee OK, decathelete (Olympic-gold-1912)
05/28/1888 Jim Thorpe, greatest US athlete of 1st half century
05/28/1889 Jose Padilla, composer
05/28/1892 Minna Gombell, actress (Bad Girl, Thin Man, Hello Sister)
05/28/1894 Sammy White, actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off)
05/28/1896 Marius Monnikendam, choir composer
05/28/1896 Warren Giles, baseball's National League president
05/28/1897 Henry Kendall, actor (Amazing Quest, Shadow, Rich & Strange)
05/28/1898 Andy Kirk, jazz musician
05/28/1900 Owen Aisher, president (Marley)
05/28/1903 Gaston Duribreux, Flemish writer (Golden Sail)
05/28/1904 Shalva Mikhaylovich Mshvelidze, composer
05/28/1906 Mary Ralton, director British WRAC
05/28/1906 Phil Regan, singer (My Wild Irish Rose)
05/28/1907 Patrick Browne, British Lord justice of appeal
05/28/1908 Ian Lancaster Fleming, London England, author (James Bond)
05/28/1909 John Schepens, [Jean Baudoux], Flemish journalist/writer (Polyfoto)
05/28/1910 Rachel Kempson, actress (Captive Heart)
05/28/1910 Stuart Piggott, archealogist
05/28/1910 T-Bone Walker, Linden Tx, blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done)
05/28/1912 Leslie Monson, diplomat
05/28/1912 Patrick White, Australia, novelist (Happy Valley, Nobel 1973)
05/28/1913 Gordon Wolstenholme, physician
05/28/1915 Scott McKay, Pleasantville Iowa, actor (Stage Door)
05/28/1915 Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violinist
05/28/1916 C Wright Mills, US sociologist (Power Elite)
05/28/1916 Thora Hird, actress (Nightcomers, Kind of Loving)
05/28/1916 Walker Percy, Brimingham Ala, author (Adventures of a Bad Catholic)
05/28/1917 Barry Commoner, Brooklyn NY, biologist (Science & Survival)
05/28/1917 Gerald Cash, Gov-Gen (Bahamas)
05/28/1917 Marshall Reed, Englewood Calif, actor (Fred Asher-Lineup)
05/28/1919 Duke of Rutland
05/28/1919 Frank Middlemass, actor (Island, Oliver Twist)
05/28/1919 John Eldridge, CEO (Matthews Wrightmson)
05/28/1922 John Alderson, chief constable of Devon & Cornwall UK
05/28/1923 Gy�rgy Ligeti, Dics�szentmartin Transylvania Hungary composer
05/28/1923 Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, India, film star/politician
05/28/1924 Edward du Cann, CEO (Lonrho)
05/28/1924 Lord Rippon, British govt minister
05/28/1924 Reginald Eyre, solicitor/MP
05/28/1925 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Zehlendorf Germany, baritone (Doktor Faust
05/28/1925 Martha Vickers, actress (Alimony, Man I Love, Ruthless, Bad Boy)
05/28/1927 Bernhard Lewkovitch, composer
05/28/1927 Fran�ois Nourissier, French writer (Un petit bourgeois)
05/28/1927 Norman Ireland, CEO (Bowater)
05/28/1927 Robert Evans, CEO (British Gas)
05/28/1928 Albert Booth, British government minister
05/28/1929 Patrick McNair-Wilson, MP
05/28/1930 Edward Seaga, PM (Jamaica)
05/28/1930 Julian Penkivil Slade, composer
05/28/1931 Carroll Baker, Penn, actress (Andy Warhol's Bad, Babydoll, Harlow)
05/28/1931 Ervin Junger, composer
05/28/1931 Peter Talbot Westergaard, composer
05/28/1931 Raymond Miquel, chairman (Scottish Sports Council)
05/28/1931 Stephen Birmingham, Hartford, author (Real Lace: America's Irish Ric
05/28/1932 Henning Christiansen, composer
05/28/1932 Lord Renton, Conservative minister
05/28/1932 Timothy Renton, MP
05/28/1933 John Karlen, Bkln NY, actor (Harvey Lacey-Cagney & Lacey)
05/28/1933 Philip Otton, high court judge
05/28/1934 Dionne quintuplets, (Annette, C�cile, �milie, Marie, Yvonne)
05/28/1934 Rob du Bois, composer
05/28/1936 Maki Ishii, composer
05/28/1938 Jerry West, W Virginia, NBA superstar (LA Lakers, Olympic-gold-1960)
05/28/1940 Hans Dulfer, tenor saxophonist/director (Paradiso)
05/28/1940 Thomas E Petri, (Rep-R-WI, 1979- )
05/28/1941 Beth Howland, Boston Mass, actress (Vera-Alice, Company)
05/28/1943 Dennis Riley, composer
05/28/1943 Liz Edgar, horse show jumper
05/28/1943 Ray Mitchell, governor (Albany Prison, England)
05/28/1944 Adriaan T 'Ad' Zuiderent, poet/critic (On the Droge)
05/28/1944 Billy Vera, musician (& Beaters-At This Moment, Into the Night)
05/28/1944 Gladys Knight, Atlanta Ga, singer, leader of Pips (Last Train)
05/28/1944 Rudy Giuliani, (Mayor-R/L-NYC, 1994- )
05/28/1945 Gary Stewart, Latcher County Ky, country singer (She's Actin' Single
05/28/1945 John Fogerty, guitarist (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
05/28/1946 Madeline LeRouix, Wyoming, Broadway actress
05/28/1947 Faith Brown, impressionist
05/28/1947 Sondra Locke, Shelbyville Tenn, actress (Heart Is a Lonely Hunter)
05/28/1949 Sue Holderness, actress
05/28/1954 Joao Carlos De Oliveira, Brazil, triple jumper (Oly-bronze-1976, 80)
05/28/1956 Germaine Montenesdro, 2nd victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (survives)
05/28/1956 Susie Diane Owens, Arkansas City Kansas, playmate (March, 1988)
05/28/1957 Kirk Gibson, Mich, outfield (Tigers, Dodgers, 1988 NL MVP)
05/28/1957 Walter R Tucker, (Rep-D-California)
05/28/1958 Yvet Anna, painter
05/28/1959 Leon 'The Bop' Klaasse, rock drummer/singer (The Pilgrims-Red)
05/28/1960 Allan Green, cricketeer
05/28/1961 Roland Gift, English rock vocalist (Fine Young Cannibals)
05/28/1962 Brandon Cruz, actor (Eddie-Courtship of Eddie's Father)
05/28/1962 Roland Gift, rocker (Fine Young Cannibals-She Drives Me Crazy)
05/28/1964 Leisa Sheridan, Omaha NE, playmate (Jul, 1993)
05/28/1965 Chantal Bailey, Champaign Ill, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
05/28/1968 Kylie Minogue, Australia, rock vocalist (Locomotion)
05/28/1970 David Roberts, Alameda Calif, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994)
05/28/1970 Morgan Fox, Prince George BC, playmate (Dec, 1990)
05/28/1977 Ashley Ryan Ruiz Offord, Miami Fla, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
Deaths:
05/28/1089 Lanfrance, Archbishop of Canterbury, dies
05/28/1259 Christoffel I, King of Denmark, dies
05/28/1317 Guy van Avesnes/Henegouwen, bishop of Utrecht, dies at about 63
05/28/1357 Afonso IV, King of Portugal (1325-57), dies at 66
05/28/1521 Willem van Croij, duke of Soria, dies at about 62
05/28/1534 Dirk Martens, Flemish printer/humanist, dies at about 83
05/28/1650 Gilles Hayne, composer, dies at 59
05/28/1685 Pieter de la Court, economist/historian, dies at about 67
05/28/1787 Leopold Mozart, composer, dies at 67
05/28/1791 Joseph Schmitt, composer, dies at 57
05/28/1805 Ridolfo Luigi Boccerini, composer, dies at 62
05/28/1833 Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner, composer, dies at 74
05/28/1836 Antoine Reicha, composer, dies at 66
05/28/1843 Noah Webster, lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary), dies at 84
05/28/1849 Anne Bront�, novelist, dies
05/28/1862 Lev A Ms, Russian nobleman/poet, dies at 40 [5/16]
05/28/1864 Henry H Giesy, US Union-brig-general, dies in battle
05/28/1883 August Freyer, composer, dies at 79
05/28/1889 Willem M d'Ablaing, lawyer, dies at 37
05/28/1890 Viktor Ernst Nessler, composer, dies at 49
05/28/1898 Edward Bellamy, US author ('Looking Backward'), died
05/28/1911 Stephanus J du Toit, So Afr theologist/journalist (Afr Bond), dies
05/28/1913 Lord Avebury, [John Lubbock], British banker/politician, dies
05/28/1914 Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld, composer, dies at 76
05/28/1921 Geo Mestdagh, Belgian aviation pioneer, dies
05/28/1922 Carl Tieke, composer, dies at 58
05/28/1927 Georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Belgian Kempen), dies
05/28/1937 Alfred Adler, Austria psychiatrist (Individual Psychology), dies at
05/28/1940 Adrian J Ensched�, director of printers Joh Ensched�, dies at 50
05/28/1940 Randle Ayrton, actor (Manx Man), dies at 70
05/28/1940 Theodor Streicher, composer, dies at 66
05/28/1940 Walter Connolly, actor (It Happened One Night, Good Earth), dies at
05/28/1942 Jean F van Royen, German secretary PTT (camp Amersfoort), dies
05/28/1954 Achille Longo, composer, dies at 54
05/28/1958 Mikulas Schneider-Trvavsky, composer, dies at 77
05/28/1963 Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin, composer, dies at 61
05/28/1964 John Finley Williamson, conductor (Westminster Choir), dies at 76
05/28/1969 Rhys Williams, actor (Nightmare, Okinawa, Corn is Green), dies at 71
05/28/1971 Audie Murphy, actor (Whispering Smiths), dies at 46
05/28/1972 Edward VIII, King of Gr Brit/N Ireland/emperor (India 1936), dies
05/28/1973 Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Germ composer/conductor (Hassan), dies at 7
05/28/1973 Jacques Lipchitz, Polish/French/US art critic sculptor, dies at 81
05/28/1975 Eric Emerson, entertainer, dies
05/28/1975 Roy Roberts, actor (Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show), dies at 75
05/28/1977 Jiri Reinberger, composer, dies at 63
05/28/1981 Mary Lou Williams, black musician, dies at 71 in Durham NC
05/28/1981 Stefan Wyszynski, Polish Cardinal, dies
05/28/1984 Eric Morecambe, comedian (Morecambe & Wise), dies at 58
05/28/1986 Lurene Tuttle, actress (Father of Bride, Julia), dies at 79
05/28/1987 Charles Ludlam, actor (Big Easy), dies at 44
05/28/1990 Joseph Hardy, actor/director (Tree Grows in Brooklyn), dies
05/28/1993 Billy Conn, boxer/actor (Pittsburgh Kid), dies
Significant Events:
05/28/ 585 -BC- Thales Miletus predicts solar eclispe Persian-Lydian battle end
05/28/ 640 Severinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope (elected in 638)
05/28/1037 German emperor Koenraad II removes 'Constitutio the Feudis'
05/28/1358 Daint-Leu at Oise begins French boer uprising
05/28/1521 Pope Leo X signs treaty with German emperor Charles V
05/28/1533 England's archbishop voids King Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn's marriage
05/28/1539 Hernando de Soto lands in Florida
05/28/1664 1st Baptist Church organized (Boston)
05/28/1731 All Hebrew books in Papal State are confiscated
05/28/1742 1st indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London)
05/28/1754 George Washington defeats French & indians at Ft Duquesne (Pitts)
05/28/1774 1st Continental Congress convenes (Virginia)
05/28/1830 Congress authorizes Indian removal from all states to western prairi
05/28/1845 Fire in Quebec Canada, 1,500 houses destroyed
05/28/1849 Princess WFLC Marianne & Albrecht of Prussia separate
05/28/1863 1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War
05/28/1866 Dutch govt of Zuylen van Nijevelt/Heemskerk forms
05/28/1868 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #99 Dike
05/28/1871 Paris communards revolt put down
05/28/1880 Grenanda wins Preakness
05/28/1892 Sierra Club forms in SF, for conservation of nature
05/28/1894 Belgium Princess Josephine marries Prince Karl von Hohenzollern
05/28/1900 Britain annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony)
05/28/1901 Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition white phosphorous)
05/28/1901 Parader wins Preakness
05/28/1904 Bryn Mawr wins Preakness
05/28/1905 P Gotz discovers asteroids #566 Stereoskopiab & #567 Eleutheria
05/28/1907 Auto-Cycle Union Tourist Trophy was 1st held
05/28/1918 Tatars declares Azerbaijan, in Russian Caucasus, independent
05/28/1919 Armenia declares it's Independence
05/28/1926 Military coup by Gen Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal
05/28/1926 US Customs Court created by congress
05/28/1929 1st all color talking picture 'On With the Show' exhibited, NYC
05/28/1930 Georges Forbes succeeds Joseph Ward as premier of NZ
05/28/1932 Dam closed, at current monument (South Seas)
05/28/1935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1712 Angola
05/28/1937 Golden Gate Bridge in SF opens to vehicular traffic
05/28/1937 Neville Chamberlain becomes PM of England
05/28/1940 Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up
05/28/1940 British-French strike captures Narvik Norway
05/28/1941 1st night game at Wash DC, Griffith stadium (Yanks 6, Senators 5)
05/28/1946 1st night game at Yankee stadium (Senators 2, Yanks 1)
05/28/1948 Iraq captures Ge'ulim settlement
05/28/1951 Bernardus J Alfrink appointed bishop's asst of Utrecht
05/28/1951 Willie Mays gets his 1st major league hit, a home run
05/28/1953 Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-'Melody'
05/28/1955 Bob Sweikert wins Indianapolis 500
05/28/1955 Nashua wins Preakness
05/28/1956 Carl Erskine becomes 1st to hit HRs in 8 straight games
05/28/1957 NL approves Bkln Dodgers' & NY Giants' move to west coast
05/28/1957 WPSD TV channel 6 in Paducah, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
05/28/1958 French govt of Pflimlin resigns
05/28/1959 Congressional Committee of Astronautics meets Project 7 astronauts
05/28/1959 Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 mi (500 km) into space on Jupiter
05/28/1959 missile, became 1st animals retrieved from a space mission
05/28/1961 Amnesty Intl founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)
05/28/1961 Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on Orient Express (after 78 years)
05/28/1962 Suit alleging de facto school segregation filed in Rochester NY
05/28/1962 US stock market drops $20.8 B in 1 day
05/28/1962 Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premieres on CBS radio
05/28/1963 Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; about 1 million houses destroye
05/28/1963 Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India)
05/28/1963 Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st PM of Kenya
05/28/1964 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 9th String quartet
05/28/1964 Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Dehli
05/28/1964 PLO forms in Jerusalem
05/28/1964 Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit
05/28/1965 Fire & explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400
05/28/1966 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' 11st String quartet, premieres in Leningrad
05/28/1967 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 2nd Violin concert
05/28/1967 Francis Chichester arrives home at Plymouth from Round-the-world tri
05/28/1968 AL announces it is splitting into 2 divisions
05/28/1968 NL grants San Diego Padres a franchise
05/28/1968 Senator Eugene Mccarthy wins Democrat primary in Oregon
05/28/1971 Paul McCartney releases his 2nd solo album 'Ram'
05/28/1971 USSR Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars
05/28/1972 White House 'plumbers' break into Democratic Nat'l HQ at Watergate
05/28/1973 Chic White Sox beat Cleve Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game started 5/26
05/28/1974 E F Helin discovers asteroid #2050 Francis
05/28/1974 Italians fascist bomb demonstrators in Brescia, 6 killed
05/28/1977 165 killed in a fire at Beverly Hills Supper Club in Kentucky
05/28/1978 Al Unser became 5th to win Indianapolis 500, 3 times
05/28/1979 European Market accepts Greece as member
05/28/1980 2 Oakland A's steal home in 1st inning
05/28/1980 Joe Darby does a standing long jump of 12'5'
05/28/1982 Leonard Maltin's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight
05/28/1982 Pope John Paul II is 1st pope to visit Great Britain
05/28/1985 David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut Lebanon
05/28/1985 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-G
05/28/1986 Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados
05/28/1987 Mathias Rust, 19, W German pilot, makes unauthorized landing in USSR
05/28/1987 Paul Pearman jumps 21 barrels on a skateboard in Augusta
05/28/1987 Southern League no-hit record-Bob Milacki pitches 11 1/3 no-hit inn
05/28/1987 Stacking of Discovery's SRBs completed
05/28/1989 Delta Burke (Designing Women) weds Gerald McRaney (Major Dad)
05/28/1989 Emerson Fittipaldi wins Indianapolis 500
05/28/1990 C�sar Gaviria Trujillo installed as president of Colombia
05/28/1990 Eugenia Charles' Dom'n Freedom Party wins election in Dominica
05/28/1991 Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa
05/28/1993 200,000 demonstrate against mafia terror
05/28/1993 Polish govt of Suchocka falls
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