May 28th

May 28 is the 149th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 207 days remaining until the end of time.

585BCE A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by 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.

1664 Alleged 1st Baptist Church organizes in Boston

1851 Sojourner Truth addresses Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio

1863 1st black regiment (54 Massachusetts) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War

1892 San Franciscan John Muir forms the Sierra Club for conservation of nature

1923 US Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere

1952 Memphis Kiddie Park opens in Brooklyn, Ohio. I’ve always known that geography was not a strong point of mine, but this is ridiculous!

1961 Amnesty International is founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)

1961 Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) of the Orient Express after 78 years

1964 Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) forms

1974 1st Daytime Emmy Award presentation: Susan Lucci loses for the 1st time

1987 Mathias Rust, 19, West German sportpilot, makes unauthorized landing in USSR. in Red Square

2003 The Right Reverend Peter Hollingworth, Governor-General of Australia, resignS his office as a result of criticism about his handling of a diddling affair years earlier.

1888 Jim Thorpe/Wa-Tho-Huk (Bright Path), American pentathlete, decathlete, football, baseball and basketball player 

1912 Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate, his 1981 autobiography revealed his homosexuality 

1934 Dionne Quintuplets, famous Canadians:
    Yvonne Édouilda Marie, Annette Lillianne Marie,
    Cécile Marie Émilda, Émilie Marie Jeanne, Marie Reine Alma

1944 Billy Vera, maybe gay US singer/Billy Vera & the Beaters 

1961 Roland Gift, maybe gay English singer/Fine Young Cannibals 

1963 Matt Gunther, gay US pornographic actor 

1965 Alon Abutbul, Israeli actor 

1967 Nick Manning, US model/heterosexual pornographic actor/director known for copious ejaculations

1967 Diogo Infante, maybe gay Portugese actor 

1967 Rick Hammersmith, gay Canadian pornographic actor 

1968 Kylie Minogue, Australian singer/songwriter/actress/entertainer/gay icon 

1969 Justin Kirk, maybe gay US actor 

1970 Alex LeMonde, gay Canadian pornographic actor/model 

1974 Romain Duris, French model/actor 

1976 Alexei Nemov, Russian Olympic Gymnast 

1977 Manuel Torres, gay US pornographic actor/model 

1979 Jesse Bradford, US actor 

1979 Mike Branson, gay US pornographic actor/electrical engineer  

1980 Mark Feehily, gay Irish boybander/singer/Westlife  

1983 Toby Hemingway, English actor 

1985 Pedro José Pallares, Colombian model/actor 

1843 Noah Webster, US lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary), has a defining moment

1971 Audie Murphy, US war hero/actor (To Hell and Back), goes to heaven and stays

 1972 Edward VIII, King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Emperor of India (1936), rejects another crown

1975 Eric Emerson, US Warholian entertainer (Lonesome Cowboys), feels the heat

1987 Charles Ludlam, gay US playwright/director/actor (Big Easy), succumbs to AIDS at 44

2010 Gary Coleman, US actor, receives a diff’rent stroke.

2011 Martha Rommelaere, 88, Canadian baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League), swings and misses