On this day: 28 May
Events, births and deaths on 28 May. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Bryce Dejean-Jones
100 years ago1926
- Events · 28 May 1926 coup d'état
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1023 · Deaths · Wulfstan
Events · 24
- 585 BCEEclipse of Thales — solar eclipse
- 621(Julian date)Battle of Hulao — 621 battle in China
- 1242(Julian date)Avignonet massacre — part of the Albigensian Crusade (1242)
- 1644Bolton Massacre — 1644 English Civil War incident
- 1754French and Indian War — North American theatre of the worldwide Seven Years' War
- 1754Battle of Jumonville Glen — 1754 opening battle of the French and Indian War
- 1905Battle of Tsushima — major naval battle between Russia and Japan during the Russo-Japanese War
- 1918Azerbaijan Democratic Republic — former country in the South Caucasus (1918–1920)
- 192628 May 1926 coup d'état — coup d'état in Portugal
- 1937Volkswagen — German automotive brand; manufacturing subsidiary of Volkswagen Group
- 1961Amnesty International — non-governmental organization based in the United Kingdom
- 1964Palestine Liberation Organization — Palestinian militant and political organization
- 1968Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 892 — 1968 aviation accident in India
- 1975Economic Community of West African States — intergovernmental economic union
- 1977Beverly Hills Supper Club fire — the third deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history
- 1991Ethiopia — country in the Horn of Africa
- 1993Line 1 — metro line of the Shanghai Metro
- 1998Chagai-I — 1998 series of nuclear tests conducted by Pakistan
- 2008Nepal — country in South Asia
- 2010Jnaneswari Express train derailment — 2010 train accident in India
- 2011
- 2012Arkankergen mass murder — 2012 attack in Kazakhstan on the border with China
- 2013Gezi Park protests — protests in Turkey
- 20172017 Indianapolis 500 — 101st running of the Indianapolis 500 motor race
Births · 60
- 1371(Julian date)John the Fearless — Duke of Burgundy
- 1676Jacopo Riccati — Italian mathematician (1676-1754)
- 1738Joseph-Ignace Guillotin — French physician (1738-1814)
- 1759William Pitt the Younger — British statesman (1759–1806)
- 1779Thomas Moore — Irish poet, singer and songwriter (1779–1852)
- 1807
- 1818P. G. T. Beauregard — Confederate general (1818–1893)
- 1853Carl Larsson — Swedish painter (1853-1919)
- 1878Paul Pelliot — French sinologist (1878-1945)
- 1883Vinayak Damodar Savarkar — Indian politician (1883–1966)
- 1884Edvard Beneš — Czechoslovak politician (1884-1948)
- 1888Jim Thorpe — American track and field athlete and baseball player (1888-1953)
- 1888Kaarel Eenpalu — Estonian politician (1888–1942)
- 1889Richard Réti — Czechoslovakian chess player (1889–1929)
- 1908Ian Fleming — British author (1908–1964)
- 1910T-Bone Walker — American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
- 1912Patrick White — English-born Australian writer
- 1912Ruby Payne-Scott — Australian radio astronomer (1912-1981)
- 1915Joseph Greenberg — American linguist
- 1916Walker Percy — American philosophical novelist
- 1923György Ligeti — Hungarian composer (1923-2006)
- 1923N. T. Rama Rao — Indian, Tollywood(Telugu Film Industry) Actor and Former Chief Minister of the State of Andhra Pradesh (1923–1996)
- 1925Bülent Ecevit — 16th Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey (1925–2006)
- 1925
- 1930Frank Drake — American astronomer and astrophysicist (1930–2022)
Deaths · 60
- 576(Julian date)Germain of Paris — Bishop of Paris
- 1023(Julian date)Wulfstan — bishop of London; bishop of Worcester; archbishop of York
- 1357Afonso IV of Portugal — King of Portugal
- 1427(Julian date)Henry IV, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg — Count of Holstein-Rendsburg and Duke of Schleswig
- 1556(Julian date)Saitō Dōsan — Sengoku period Japanese samurai
- 1626Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk — English sailor, politician, and courtier (1561–1626)
- 1747Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues — French writer, a moralist (1715-1747)
- 1750Sakuramachi — emperor of Japan (1720-1750)
- 1787Leopold Mozart — German composer (1719–1787)
- 1805Luigi Boccherini — Italian composer and cellist (1743–1805)
- 1811Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville — Scottish advocate and politician (1742-1811)
- 1843Noah Webster — American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)
- 1849
- 1864Simion Bărnuţiu — Romanian academic (1808-1864)
- 1878John Russell, 1st Earl Russell — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1846–1852 and 1865–1866 (1792–1878)
- 1878William Chapman Hewitson — British naturalist (1806–1878)
- 1904Kicking Bear — Mniconjou Lakota chief and Ghost Dance leader (1846-1904)
- 1916Ivan Franko — Ukrainian poet and writer (1856–1916)
- 1927Boris Kustodiev — Russian painter and stage designer (1878-1927)
- 1937Alfred Adler — Austrian psychotherapist (1870–1937)
- 1946Carter Glass — American politician (1858–1946)
- 1947August Eigruber — Austrian Nazi politician, Gauleiter of Oberdonau and Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria (1907-1947)
- 1953Tatsuo Hori — writer, poet, and translator in Japan (1904–1953)
- 1968Fyodor Okhlopkov — Hero of the Soviet Union (1908-1968)
- 1971Audie Murphy — American soldier and actor (1925–1971)
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