28 May
Notable Births
Phil Foden
b. 2000
English footballer (born 2000)
Risi Pouri-Lane
b. 2000
New Zealand rugby sevens player
Cameron Boyce
b. 1999
American actor (1999–2019)
Jodie Burrage
b. 1999
British tennis player (born 1999)
Dahyun
b. 1998
South Korean singer, rapper and actress (born 1998)
Alec Benjamin
b. 1994
American singer and songwriter
John Stones
b. 1994
English footballer (born 1994)
Daniel Alvaro
b. 1993
Italy international rugby league footballer
Bárbara Luz
b. 1993
Portuguese tennis player (born 1993)
Danielle Lao
b. 1991
American tennis player
Kail Piho
b. 1991
Estonian Nordic combined skier (born 1991)
Kyle Walker
b. 1990
English footballer (born 1990)
NaVorro Bowman
b. 1988
American football player (born 1988)
Percy Harvin
b. 1988
American football player (born 1988)
Craig Kimbrel
b. 1988
American baseball pitcher (born 1988)
David Perron
b. 1988
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1988)
T. J. Yates
b. 1987
American football player and coach (born 1987)
Berrick Barnes
b. 1986
Australia international rugby union & league footballer
Rudy Giuliani
b. 1944
American attorney and politician (born 1944)
Ian Fleming
b. 1908
English author (1908–1964)
Notable Deaths
Patricia Brake
d. 2022
English actress (1942–2022)
Mark Eaton
d. 2021
American basketball player (1957–2021)
Jens Christian Skou
d. 2018
Danish chemist (1918–2018)
Cornelia Frances
d. 2018
English-Australian actress (1941–2018)
Harambe
d. 2016
Captive gorilla (1999–2016)
Reynaldo Rey
d. 2015
American actor and comedian (1940–2015)
Maya Angelou
d. 2014
American writer and activist (1928–2014)
Malcolm Glazer
d. 2014
American sports team owner (1928–2014)
Bob Houbregs
d. 2014
Canadian basketball player (1932–2014)
Viktor Kulikov
d. 2013
Soviet marshal (1921–2013)
Eddie Romero
d. 2013
Filipino film director (1924–2013)
Gino Valenzano
d. 2011
Italian racing driver
Gary Coleman
d. 2010
American actor (1968–2010)
Beryl Cook
d. 2008
British artist (1926–2008)
Jörg Immendorff
d. 2007
German artist (1945–2007)
Toshikatsu Matsuoka
d. 2007
Japanese politician
Thorleif Schjelderup
d. 2006
Norwegian ski jumper
John Tolos
d. 2004
Greek-Canadian professional wrestler and manager (1931-2009)
Oleg Makarov (cosmonaut)
d. 2003
Soviet engineer and cosmonaut (1933–2003)
Zainul Abedin
d. 1976
Bangladeshi painter and pioneer of the modern art movement
On This Day in History
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2017
Former Formula One driver Takuma Sato wins his first Indianapolis 500, the first Japanese and Asian driver to do so. Double world champion Fernando Alonso retires from an engine issue in his first entry of the event.
Formula One
2016
Harambe, a gorilla, is shot to death after grabbing a three-year-old boy in his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, resulting in widespread criticism and sparking various internet memes.
Harambe
2013
Start of the Gezi Park protests in Turkey.
Gezi Park protests
2012
The Arkankergen massacre in Kazakhstan's Alakol District kills 15 people.
Arkankergen massacre
2011
Malta votes on the introduction of divorce; the proposal was approved by 53% of voters, resulting in a law allowing divorce under certain conditions being enacted later in the year.
Malta
2010
In West Bengal, India, the Jnaneswari Express train derailment and subsequent collision kills 148 passengers.
West Bengal
2008
The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.
Nepal
2004
The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
Iraqi Governing Council
2003
Peter Hollingworth resigns as Governor-General of Australia following criticism of his handling of child sexual abuse allegations during his tenure as Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane.
Peter Hollingworth
2002
The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.
World Trade Center site
1999
In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
Milan
1998
Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
Nuclear weapons testing
1996
U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas, Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
Bill Clinton
1995
The 7.0 Mw Neftegorsk earthquake shakes the former Russian settlement of Neftegorsk with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Total damage was $64.1–300 million, with 1,989 deaths and 750 injured. The settlement was not rebuilt.
1995 Neftegorsk earthquake
1991
The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
Addis Ababa
1987
An 18-year-old West German pilot, Mathias Rust, evades Soviet Union air defences and lands a private plane in Red Square in Moscow, Russia.
Mathias Rust
1979
Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
Konstantinos Karamanlis
1977
The Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky, is engulfed by fire, killing 165 people inside.
Beverly Hills Supper Club fire
1975
Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.
West Africa
1975
At Brampton Centennial Secondary School, student Michael Slobodian kills two people and injures 13 others before committing suicide.
Brampton Centennial Secondary School