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Our on this day in history archives contain over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few more of them:

May 28 is the 148th day of the year (149th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 217 days remain until the end of the year.

EVENTS

585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated. It is also the earliest event of which the precise date is known.

1533 – The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid.  

1588 – The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port.)

1644 – English Civil War: Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby.

1754 – French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.

1830 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which denies Native Americans their land rights and forcibly relocates them.

1892 – In San Francisco, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.

1934 – Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.

1936 – Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.

1937 – Volkswagen, the German automobile manufacturer, is founded.

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.

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.

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.

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.

BIRTHS

1738 – Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician (d. 1814)

1764 – Edward Livingston, American jurist and politician, 11th United States Secretary of State (d. 1836)

1779 – Thomas Moore, Irish poet and composer (d. 1852)

1807 – Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American paleontologist and geologist (d. 1873)

1818 – P. G. T. Beauregard, American general (d. 1893)

1888 – Jim Thorpe, American decathlete, football player, and coach (d. 1953)

1908 – Ian Fleming, English journalist and author, created James Bond (d. 1964)[1

1909 – Red Horner, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)

1910 – Georg Gaßmann, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (d. 1987)

1910 – Rachel Kempson, English actress (d. 2003)

1910 – T-Bone Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1975)

1931 – Gordon Willis, American cinematographer (d. 2014)

1932 – Tim Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harry, English politician, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries (d. 2020)

1933 – Zelda Rubinstein, American actress and activist (d. 2010)

1944 – Rudy Giuliani, American lawyer and politician, 107th mayor of New York City

1944 – Gladys Knight, American singer-songwriter and actress

1944 – Sondra Locke, American actress and director (d. 2018)

1945 – John Fogerty, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1967 – Glen Rice, American basketball player

1985 – Colbie Caillat, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

DEATHS

1998 – Phil Hartman, Canadian-American actor and comedian (b. 1948)

2010 – Gary Coleman, American actor (b. 1968)

2012 – Bob Edwards, English journalist (b. 1925)

2014 – Maya Angelou, American memoirist and poet (b. 1928)

2015 – Reynaldo Rey, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1940)

2021 – Mark Eaton, American basketball player (b. 1957)

2022 – Patricia Brake, English actress (b. 1942)

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