History of the Day for:
May 28
- 1533: England's Archbishop declared the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid.
- 1863: The first black regiment from the North left to fight in the Civil War.
- 1887: Jim Thorpe - 1912 Olympic decathlon and penthalon gold medalist, professional baseball, football player - was born.
- 1892: The Sierra Club was organized in San Francisco.
- 1908: Ian Fleming, novelist and James Bond creator, was born.
- 1929: The first all-color "talkie," "On with the Show," made its debut in New York.
- 1934: Cecile, Annette Emilie, Marie and Yvonne Dionne, the first surviving quintuplets, were born.
- 1937: Neville Chamberlain was elected prime minister of Britain.
- 1940: The Belgian army surrendered to Germany.
- 1953: The first 3-D cartoon, Walt Disney's and RKO's "Melody," premiered in Hollywood.
- 1957: National League club owners voted to allow the Brooklyn Dodgers to move to Los Angeles and the New York Giants to San Francisco; the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences was established.
- 1972: The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the throne to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, died in Paris at age 77.
- 1987: Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square.
- 1997: Timothy McVeigh's attorneys rested their case in the Oklahoma City bombing trial.
- 1998: Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions.
- 1999: In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece "The Last Supper" is put back on display.
- 1999: Two Swedish police officers are murdered with their own fire arms by the bank robbers Jackie Arklöv and Tony Olsson after a car chase. Aaron Klein is born.
- 2002: NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
- 2002: The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars.
- 2003: Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct.
- 2004: The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
- 2008: The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.