Saturday, May 28, 2005

Saturday, May 28

This Day In History

  • 1533   England's Archbishop declared the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid.
  • 1892   The Sierra Club was organized in San Francisco.
  • 1934   The Dionne quintuplets   Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne   were born to Elzire Dionne at the family farm in Ontario, Canada.
  • 1937   The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opened to traffic.
  • 1937   Neville Chamberlain became prime minister of Britain.
  • 1940   The Belgian army surrendered to invading German forces during World War II.
  • 1957   The National League approved the move of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants baseball teams to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively.
  • 1977   Fire raced through the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Ky., killing 165 people.
  • 1985   David Jacobsen, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, was abducted by pro-Iranian kidnappers.
  • 1987   Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses.
  • 1996   President Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James and Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, were convicted of fraud.
  • 1998   Pakistan matched India with five nuclear test blasts.
  • 1998   Comic actor Phil Hartman of ''Saturday Night Live'' and ''NewsRadio'' fame was shot to death at his home in Encino, Calif., by his wife, Brynn, who then killed herself.
  • 2002   NATO declared Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
  • 2003   President Bush signed a 10-year, $350 billion package of tax cuts, saying they already were "adding fuel to an economic recovery."
Happy Birthday To
  • 1908   Ian Fleming (author: creator of Bond ... James Bond; died Aug 12, 1964)
  • 1944   Rudolph Giuliani (Rudolph William Louis Giuliani III) (politician: Mayor of New York City)
  • 1944   Gladys (Maria) Knight (singer: w/The Pips)
  • 1945   John Fogerty (songwriter; singer: group: Creedence Clearwater:)

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