TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: MAY 28
0585 A solar eclipse interrupts a battle outside Sardis in western Turkey between Medes and Lydians. The battle ends in a draw.
1431 Joan of Arc is accused of relapsing into heresy by donning male clothing again, providing justification for her execution
1533 England’s archbishop voids King Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn’s marriage
1539 Hernando de Soto lands in Florida
1731 All Hebrew books in Papal State are confiscated
1805 Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned in Milan, Italy.
1830 US President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, a key law leading to the forced removal of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole tribes out of Georgia and surrounding states, setting the stage for the Cherokee Trail of Tears
1863 The 54th Massachusetts, a regiment of African-American recruits, leaves Boston, headed for Hilton Head, South Carolina
1915 John B Gruelle patents Raggedy Ann doll
1923 US unemployment has nearly ended
1928 Chrysler Corporation merged with Dodge Brothers, Inc.
1936 Alan Turing submits “On Computable Numbers” for publication, in which he set out the theoretical basis for modern computers.
1937 Volkswagen (VW) is founded. The automobile manufacturer whose name means “People’s Car” in German is one of the world’s biggest. It produced classics like the VW Golf and the VW Beetle.
1953 Melody, the first animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor, premiers.
1957 Baseball owners voted to allow the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants to move to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively.
1961 Amnesty International, a human rights organization, is founded.
1972 White House “plumbers” first break in at the Democratic National Headquarters at Watergate Complex in Washington, D.C.
1987 Mathias Rust lands on the Red Square in Moscow. The 19-year old West German amateur pilot illegally landed his Cessna in the heart of the Russian capital at the height of the Cold War.
1996 U.S. President Clinton’s former business partners in the Whitewater land deal were convicted of fraud.
1998 Pakistan matched India with five nuclear test blasts. The U.S., Japan and other nations imposed economic sanctions. Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said “Today, we have settled the score with India.”
1998 Dr. Susan Terebey discovered a planet outside of our solar system with the use of photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
2003 Pres. Bush signed a $350 billion tax cut into law; the third largest tax cut in U.S. history.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
