Friday, May 28, 2010

This Day In History for May 28

1863 - the first black regiment from the North left Boston to fight in the Civil War.

1533 - England's Archbishop declared the marriage of King Henry the Eighth 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 - Neville Chamberlain became prime minister of Britain.

1940 - during World War Two, the Belgian army surrendered to invading German forces.

1972 - the Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the English throne to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, died in Paris at age 77.

1977 - 165 people were killed when fire raced through the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky.

1984 - President Reagan led a state funeral at Arlington National Cemetery for an unidentified American soldier killed in the Vietnam War. (However, the remains were later exhumed and identified as those of Air Force First Lieutenant Michael J. Blassie, and were sent to St. Louis for hometown burial.)

1985 - David Jacobsen, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, was abducted by pro-Iranian kidnappers (he was freed 17 months later).

1987 - Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses.

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