May 28: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

May 28th marks the 148th day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 149th in case of leap years). There are 217 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Gemini. Famous birthdays on this day include Rudy Giuliani (1944), Kylie Minogue (1968) and Romain Duris (1974).
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Holidays

Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church: Germain of Paris
Republic Day in Azerbaijan and Armenia (both 1918).
Lanfranc
Bernard of Menthon
Augustine of Canterbury
William of Gellone
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Events

2019 Australia-China relations, South China Sea issue: Australian helicopters from HMAS Canberra, the Royal Australian Navy flagship, have to land an emergency landing after they were hit by lasers from South China Sea fishing boats. A Chinese warship was following the Canberra.
2018 Polish Foreign Relations: The Minister of Defence Mariusz Blaszczak claims that he has spoken to U.S. officials in Washington D.C. recently about permanent stationing thousands of U.S. soldiers in Poland as a means of deterring Russia.
2017 CPP-NPA/NDF rebellion: After President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law in Mindanao, the government of the Philippines and Communist Party end peace talks.
2016 Spillover from the Syrian Civil War. Turkey claims its artillery fire and U.S. air strike killed more than 104 ISIL militants.
2015 In a closely watched copyright dispute between Google and Oracle over Java APIs, the Solicitor General of America sides with Oracle. (IDG News Service).
2014 Four police officers were killed when gunmen attacked the Tunisia's home of Lotfi Ben Jeddou, the top security official.
2013 Syrian civil war: Senator John McCain of the United States travels to Syria in order to meet rebel fighters and discuss America's involvement in the country's civil war. (Reuters)Le Monde has reported that the Assad regime continues to use chemical weapons in Syria. Russia evacuates 130 Syrians as the situation continues to get worse.
2012 Arab Spring
2011 Libyan Civil War 2011: New explosions heard in Tripoli, Libyan Capital. NATO bombing continues.
2010 The World Bank can cancel $36 Million in Haiti's debts after January's catastrophic earthquake with contributions from Canada, France, Germany and Switzerland.
2009 General Motors requests Germany to repay its subsidiaries Opel Motors and Vauxhall Motors.
2008 The Constituent Assembly of Nepal officially declares Nepal a republic at its first meeting. This ends the 240-year rule of the Shah dynasty.
2007 Al-Azhar University suspends a lecturer who gave the Breastfeeding fatwa.
2006 Three months after his disappearance, the body of Lewis Brooke Miskell, a Canadian diplomat, was found in Naples, Italy.
2005 An engineer stated Saturday that the clock tower at Palace of Westminster, London, also known as Big Ben for its accuracy and chimes stopped ticking after 90 minutes.
2004 Ayad allawi, a long-time anti-Saddam Hussein exile is elected by the Iraqi Governing Council to be the interim government's prime minister.
2003 Peter Hollingworth is the first Governor General of Australia to resign after being criticised for his conduct.
2002 The Mars Odyssey discovered large ice deposits on Mars.
2000 The comic strip Bringing Up Father has ended its 87-year-old run in newspapers.
1999 Two Swedish police officers are murdered with their own fire arms by the bank robbers Jackie Arklov and Tony Olsson after a car chase.
1998 Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions.
1997 Bob Dylan hospitalized in England with histoplasmosis
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.
1995 Inspector Calls closes at Royale Theater NYC after 454 performances
1994 Cafe American, last airs on NBC-TV
1993 200,000 demonstrate against mafia terror.
1992 65th National Spelling Bee: Amanda Goad wins spelling "lyceum".
1991 Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa.
1990 Dave Thomas Comedy Show, debuts on CBS-TV
1989 Delta Burke (Designing Women) weds Gerald McRaney
1988 Genie Francis (General Hospital) weds Jonathan Frakes
1987 Mathias Rust, 19, W German pilot, makes unauthorized landing in the USSR
1986 Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados.
1985 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-G
1983 Ricky by Weird Al Yankovic hits #63
1982 Pope John Paul II is first pope to visit Great Britain since 1531.
1980 Nottingham Forrest wins 25th Europe Cup 1 in Madrid, Spain.
1979 European Market accepts Greece as member.
1978 Al Unser became 5th to win Indianapolis 500, 3 times
1977 In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
1975 Soyuz 18 launched.
1974 Magic Show opens at Cort Theater NYC for 1859 performances
1973 Jacques Lipchitz, Polish/French/US art critic sculptor, dies at age 81.
1972 White House "plumbers" break into Democratic National headquarters at Watergate.
1971 Paul McCartney releases his 2nd solo album Ram
1970 The formerly united Free University of Brussels officially splits into two separate entities, the French-speaking Universite Libre de Bruxelles and the Dutch-speaking Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
1969 AC Milan wins 14th Europe Cup 1 in Madrid, Spain.
1968 NL grants San Diego Padres a franchise
1967 Francis Chichester arrives home at Plymouth from Round-the-world trip
1966 Ballad Of Irving by Frank Gallop hits #34
1965 Fire and explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad, India kills 400.
1964 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 9th String quartet
1963 Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal
1962 Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premieres on CBS radio
1961 Amnesty International founded
1960 Greenwillow closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 95 performances
1959 Monkeys Able and Baker zoom 300 miles (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became first animals retrieved from a space mission.
1958 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open.
1957 WPSD TV channel 6 in Paducah, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 US President Dwight Eisenhower signs farm bill allowing government to store agricultural surplus.
1955 Bob Sweikert wins Indianapolis 500 with an average speed of 128.213 mph.
1953 Premiere of first animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor: Melody.
1952 The women of Greece are given the right to vote.
1951 Jerry Colonna Show, debuts on ABC-TV
1948 Daniel Francois Malan defeats Jan Smuts and becomes Prime Minister of South Africa, ushering in the era of apartheid, which is finally dismantled by F W de Klerk in 1994.
1946 1st night game at Yankee stadium (Senators 2, Yanks 1)
1945 William Joyce (quotLord Haw-Hawquot) is captured. He is later charged with high treason in London for his English-language wartime broadcasts on German radio, convicted, and then hanged in January 1946.
1943 British militia reaches Tito.
1942 1,800 Czechoslovakians murdered by Germans during attack on Reinhard Heydrich.
1941 New York Yankees nip Washingston Senators 6-5 in 1st night game at Griffith Stadium
1940 Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up
1938 Foundation for Tel Aviv harbor is laid.
1937 Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opens to vehicular traffic.
1936 Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
1934 The Glyndebourne festival in England is inaugurated.
1932 Dam closed, at current monument
1930 Georges Forbes succeeds Joseph Ward as premier of New Zealand.
1929 First all color talking picture On With the Show exhibited (in New York City).
1928 Dodge Brothers Inc and Chrysler Corp merged
1926 US Customs Court created by Congress.
1923 Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere
1918 Tatars declares Azerbaijan, in Russian Caucasus, independent.
1915 John B Gruelle patents Raggedy Ann doll.
1907 Auto-Cycle Union Tourist Trophy, 1st held
1906 Shields / Cobbs musical His honor, the Mayor, premieres in New York City
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.
1904 29th Preakness: Eugene Hildebrand aboard Bryn Mawr wins in 1:44.2.
1901 26th Preakness: Fred Landry aboard The Parader wins in 1:47.2.
1900 Solar eclipse occurs.
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