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Events from History on May 28

1037 : German emperor Koenraad II removes "Constitutio the Feudis"
1156 : Battle at Brindisi: King Willem of Sicily beats Byzantine fleet
1349 : 60 Jews murdered in Breslau Silesia
1358 : Daint-Leu at Oise begins French boer uprising
1521 : Pope Leo X signs treaty with German emperor Charles V
1533 : England's archbishop voids King Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn's marriage
1539 : Hernando de Soto lands in Florida
1608 : Claudio Monteverdi's "Arianna," premieres in Mantua
1635 : Zorilla's "El Desafio de Carlos V," premieres in Madrid
1664 : 1st Baptist Church organizes (Boston)
1674 : German Parliament declares war on France
1731 : All Hebrew books in Papal State are confiscated
1741 : Spain & Bavaria sign treaty
1742 : 1st indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London)
1754 : George Washington defeats French & indians at Ft Duquesne (Pitts)
1774 : 1st Continental Congress convenes (Virginia)
1818 : 1st steam-vessel to sail Great Lakes launched
1830 : Congress authorizes Indian removal from all states to western prairie
1845 : Fire in Quebec Canada, 1,500 houses destroyed
1849 : Princess WFLC Marianne & Albrecht of Prussia separate
1851 : Sojourner Truth attends Women's Rights Convention
1858 : Dion Boucicault's "Foul Play," premieres in London
1863 : 1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War
1866 : Dutch govt of Zuylen van Nijevelt/Heemskerk forms
1871 : Paris communards revolt put down
1892 : Sierra Club forms by John Muir in SF, for conservation of nature
1894 : Belgium Princess Josephine marries Prince Karl von Hohenzollern
1900 : Britain annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony)
1900 : Fire in Cincinnati nearly destroys Reds' grandstand
1900 : Solar eclipse occurs
1901 : Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition white phosphorous)
1906 : Shields/Cobbs musical "His honor, the Mayor," premieres in NYC
1907 : Auto-Cycle Union Tourist Trophy, 1st held
1915 : John B Gruelle patents Raggedy Ann doll
1918 : Tatars declares Azerbaijan, in Russian Caucasus, independent
1919 : Armenia declares it's Independence
1923 : Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere
1923 : US unemployment has nearly ended
1926 : Military coup by Gen Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal
1926 : US Customs Court created by congress
1928 : Dodge Brothers Inc & Chrysler Corp merged
1929 : 1st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited (NYC)
1930 : Georges Forbes succeeds Joseph Ward as premier of NZ
1932 : Dam closed, at current monument (South Seas)
1934 : Bradman gets 160 Aust v Middlesex, 124 mins, 27 fours, 1x6, 1x5
1937 : Golden Gate Bridge in SF opens to vehicular traffic
1937 : Neville Chamberlain becomes PM of England
1938 : Foundation for Tel Aviv harbor laid
1938 : Hindemiths opera "Mathis der Maler," premieres in Zrich
1940 : Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up
1940 : British-French troops capture Narvik Norway
1940 : Irving Berlin's musical "Louisiana Purchase," premieres in NYC
1941 : British army begins evacuation of Kreta
1942 : 1,800 Czechs murdered by Nazis during attack on Heydrich
1943 : British militia reaches Tito
1948 : Iraq captures Ge'ulim settlement
1951 : After going 0-for-12, Willie Mays connects for his 1st HR
1951 : Bernardus J Alfrink appointed bishop's asst of Utrecht
1951 : Jerry Colonna Show, debuts on ABC-TV
1951 : Willie Mays gets his 1st major league hit, a home run
1953 : Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody"
1956 : Eisenhower signs farm bill allows govt to store agricultural surplus
1957 : NL approves Bkln Dodgers' & NY Giants' move to west coast
1957 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1957 : WPSD TV channel 6 in Paducah, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1958 : French govt of Pflimlin resigns/200,000 demonstrate against De Gaulle
1959 : Congressional Committee of Astronautics meets Project 7 astronauts
1959 : Johnson & Bart's musical "Lock up your daughters," premieres in London
1959 : Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 mi (500 km) into space on Jupiter
1959 : missile, became 1st animals retrieved from a space mission
1960 : "Greenwillow" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 95 performances
1961 : Amnesty Intl founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)
1961 : Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on Orient Express (after 78 years)
1962 : Suit alleging de facto school segregation filed in Rochester NY
1962 : US stock market drops $20.8 B in 1 day
1962 : Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premieres on CBS radio
1963 : Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; about 1 million houses destroyed
1963 : Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India)
1963 : Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st PM of Kenya
1964 : Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 9th String quartet
1964 : Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Dehli
1964 : Palestine National Congress forms the PLO in Jerusalem
1964 : Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit
1965 : Fire & explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400
1966 : Dmitri Shostakovitch's 11th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad
1967 : Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd Violin concert
1967 : Francis Chichester arrives home at Plymouth from Round-the-world trip
1967 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 : AL announces it is splitting into 2 divisions
1968 : NL grants San Diego Padres a franchise
1971 : Paul McCartney releases his 2nd solo album "Ram"
1971 : USSR Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars
1972 : White House "plumbers" break into Democratic Natl HQ at Watergate
1974 : "Magic Show" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 1859 performances
1974 : 26th Emmy Awards: MASH, Alan Alda & Mary Tyler Moore win
1974 : Emmy 1st Daytime Award presentation
1974 : Italians fascist bomb demonstrators in Brescia, 6 killed
1974 : Stephen Schwartz' musical "Magic Show," premieres in NYC
1975 : Soyuz 18 launches
1977 : 165 killed in a fire at Beverly Hills Supper Club in Kentucky
1978 : Al Unser became 5th to win Indianapolis 500, 3 times
1979 : European Market accepts Greece as member
1980 : 2 Oakland A's steal home in 1st inning
1980 : Joe Darby does a standing long jump of 12'5"
1982 : Leonard Maltin's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight
1982 : Pope John Paul II is 1st pope to visit Great Britain
1985 : David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut Lebanon
1985 : Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-G
1986 : White Sox Joe Cowley sets record striking out 1st 7 Rangers he faces
1987 : Mathias Rust, 19, W German pilot, makes unauthorized landing in USSR
1987 : Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot
1987 : Paul Pearman jumps 21 barrels on a skateboard in Augusta
1987 : Southern League no-hit record-Bob Milacki pitches 11 1/3 no-hit inn
1987 : Stacking of Discovery's SRBs completed
1988 : Genie Francis (General Hospital) weds Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek TNG)
1989 : Delta Burke (Designing Women) weds Gerald McRaney (Major Dad)
1990 : C‚sar Gaviria Trujillo installed as president of Colombia
1990 : Dave Thomas Comedy Show, debuts on CBS-TV
1990 : Longest wheelie (David Robilliard with 5h12m33s (Channel Islands)
1991 : Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa
1993 : 200,000 demonstrate against mafia terror
1993 : Polish govt of Suchocka falls
1994 : "Cafe American," last airs on NBC-TV
1994 : Twin's Dave Winfield passes Rod Carew into 15th hit list (3,054)
1995 : "Inspector Calls" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 454 performances
1995 : Earthquake hits Russian town of Khabarovsk, killing 2,000 people
1995 : Southwestern Florida outside of Tampa begins using new area code 941
1995 : White Sox (5) & Tigers (7) combine for record 12 HRs at Tiger Stadium
1997 : Bob Dylan hospitalized in England with histoplasmosis
1997 : Linda Finch completes Amelia Earhart attempted around-the-world flight
1997 : Tornado in Jarrell Texas kills at least 28
1997 : Wallace Berg, 42, is 4th American to scale Mt Everest for 3rd time
2002 : Pakistan test fires Abdall - its third missile in the last four days.
2002 : Jack Straw, British Foreign Secretary returned back from Pakistan.
2002 : India calls Pakistan President Gen Parvez Mushrraf's speach as 'disappointingand dangerous'.
2002 : Shinobu Asagoe (JPN) beats Anastasia Myskins (RUS) 3-6, 6-2, 7-5 in French Open Women's 1st Round
2002 : Al Sugiyama (JPN) beats Marion Bertoli (FRA) 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 in French Open Women's 1st Round
2002 : NATO-Russia Summit held at Rome. With the summit, NATO Russia council established, Russia has no power to veto, NATO members can withdraw contentious issues, Russia to be consulted on issues like 'War on Terrorism'
2002 : Over 100 Maoist rebels and 5 soldiers were killed when a Maoist troop attacked.
2002 : Nikkei 11936 (-40.27)
2002 : Hang Seng 11582 (+16.85)
2002 : BSE Sensex 3146.83 (-96.58)
2002 : NSE Nifty 1038.20 (-24.50)
2002 : Karachi 1673.3 (-42.16)

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