Editing May 28 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
*[[585 BC]] &ndash; A [[Eclipse of Thales|solar eclipse]] occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist [[Thales]], while [[Alyattes of Lydia|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.<ref>Asimov, Isaac (1965) ''The Greeks'', Boston: Houghton Mifflin, p. 91</ref>
* [[621]] &ndash; [[Battle of Hulao]]: [[Emperor Taizong of Tang|Li Shimin]], the son of the Chinese emperor [[Emperor Gaozu of Tang|Gaozu]], defeats the numerically superior forces of [[Dou Jiande]] near the [[Hulao Pass]] ([[Henan]]). This victory decides the outcome of the [[Transition from Sui to Tang|civil war]] that followed the [[Sui dynasty]]'s collapse in favour of the [[Tang dynasty]].
* [[1242]] &ndash; [[Avignonet massacre]]: A group of [[Cathars]], with the probable connivance of Count [[Raymond VII of Toulouse]], murdered the inquisitor [[William Arnaud (inquisitor)|William Arnaud]] and eleven of his companions.<ref>{{citation |page=394 |author-link=Zoé Oldenbourg |author=Zoé Oldenbourg |title=Massacre at Montségur: A History of the Albiegensian Crusade |publisher=Pantheon Books |year=1961 |translator=Peter Green}}.</ref>
*[[1533]] &ndash; The [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], [[Thomas Cranmer]], declares the marriage of King [[Henry VIII]] of England to [[Anne Boleyn]] valid.
*[[1588]] &ndash; 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.)

===1601–1900===
*[[1644]] &ndash; [[English Civil War]]: [[Bolton Massacre]] by [[Cavalier|Royalist]] troops under the command of [[James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby]].
*[[1754]] &ndash; [[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, Pennsylvania|Fayette County]] in southwestern [[Pennsylvania]].
*[[1802]] &ndash; In [[Guadeloupe]], 400 rebellious slaves, led by [[Louis Delgrès]], blow themselves up rather than submit to [[Napoleon]]'s troops.
*[[1830]] &ndash; [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Andrew Jackson]] signs the [[Indian Removal Act]] which denies [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] their land rights and forcibly relocates them.
*[[1871]] &ndash; The [[Paris Commune]] falls after two months.<ref>{{cite book|title=Women and War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lyZYS_GxglIC&pg=PA455|year=2006|isbn=978-1-85109-770-8|pages=455|last1 = Cook|first1 = Bernard A.| publisher=Abc-Clio }}</ref>
*[[1892]] &ndash; In [[San Francisco]], [[John Muir]] organizes the [[Sierra Club]].

===1901–present===
*[[1905]] &ndash; [[Russo-Japanese War]]: The [[Battle of Tsushima]] ends with the destruction of the Russian [[Baltic Fleet]] by [[Admiral]] [[Tōgō Heihachirō]] and the [[Imperial Japanese Navy]].<ref>{{cite book|first1=Kit|last1=Bonner|first2=Carolyn|last2=Bonner|title=USS Iowa at War|date=2007 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XdFaarjBN9QC&pg=PA21|publisher=Zenith Imprint|isbn=978-1-61060-769-8|pages=21}}</ref>
*[[1907]] &ndash; The first [[Isle of Man TT]] race is held.
*[[1918]] &ndash; The [[Azerbaijan Democratic Republic]] and the [[First Republic of Armenia]] declare their independence.
*[[1926]] &ndash; The [[28 May 1926 coup d'état]]: [[Ditadura Nacional]] is established in [[Portugal]] to suppress the unrest of the [[History of Portugal#The First Republic|First Republic]].
*[[1932]] &ndash; In the Netherlands, construction of the [[Afsluitdijk]] is completed and the [[Zuiderzee]] bay is [[Zuiderzee Works|converted]] to the freshwater [[IJsselmeer]].
*[[1934]] &ndash; Near [[Callander, Ontario]], Canada, the [[Dionne quintuplets]] are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first [[Multiple birth|quintuplet]]s to survive [[Infant|infancy]].
*[[1936]] &ndash; [[Alan Turing]] submits [[Turing's proof|''On Computable Numbers'']] for publication.
*[[1937]] &ndash; [[Volkswagen]], the German automobile manufacturer, is founded.
*[[1940]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: Belgium surrenders to [[Nazi Germany]] to end the [[Battle of Belgium]].
*  1940   &ndash; World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces [[Battles of Narvik|recapture]] [[Narvik]] in Norway. This is the first Allied infantry victory of the War.
*[[1948]] &ndash; [[Daniel François Malan]] is elected as [[Prime Minister of South Africa]]. He later goes on to implement [[Apartheid]].
*[[1958]] &ndash; [[Cuban Revolution]]: [[Fidel Castro]]'s [[26th of July Movement]], heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.
*[[1961]] &ndash; [[Peter Benenson]]'s article ''[[The Forgotten Prisoners]]'' is published in several internationally read [[newspaper]]s. This will later be thought of as the founding of the [[human rights]] organization [[Amnesty International]].
*[[1964]] &ndash; The [[Palestine Liberation Organization|Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)]] is founded, with [[Yasser Arafat]] elected as its first leader.<ref>{{Cite web|title=PLO – PalestineRemix|url=https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/PalestineRemix/plo.html|access-date=2021-05-28|website=interactive.aljazeera.com|language=en-GB}}</ref>
*[[1968]] &ndash; [[Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 892]] crashes near [[Nala Sopara]] in India, killing 30.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Convair CV-990-30A-5 Coronado PK-GJA Mumbai Airport (BOM) |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19680528-0 |access-date=2022-05-27 |website=aviation-safety.net |publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[1974]] &ndash; [[Northern Ireland]]'s power-sharing [[Sunningdale Agreement]] collapses following a [[Ulster Workers' Council strike|general strike]] by [[Ulster loyalism|loyalists]].
*[[1975]] &ndash; Fifteen [[West Africa]]n countries sign the [[Treaty of Lagos]], creating the [[Economic Community of West African States]].
*[[1977]] &ndash; In [[Southgate, Kentucky]], the [[Beverly Hills Supper Club fire|Beverly Hills Supper Club]] is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
*[[1979]] &ndash; [[Konstantinos Karamanlis]] signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the [[European Economic Community]].
*[[1987]] &ndash; 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.
*[[1991]] &ndash; The capital city of [[Addis Ababa]] falls to the [[Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front]], ending both the [[Derg]] regime in [[Ethiopia]] and the [[Ethiopian Civil War]].
*[[1995]] &ndash; The 7.0 {{M|w}} [[1995 Neftegorsk earthquake|Neftegorsk earthquake]] shakes the former Russian settlement of [[Neftegorsk, Sakhalin Oblast|Neftegorsk]] with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of IX (''Violent''). Total damage was [[United States dollar|$]]64.1–300&nbsp;million, with 1,989 deaths and 750 injured. The settlement was not rebuilt.
*[[1996]] &ndash; U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]]'s former business partners in the [[Whitewater controversy|Whitewater land deal]], [[Jim McDougal]] and [[Susan McDougal]], and the [[Governor of Arkansas]], [[Jim Guy Tucker]], are convicted of fraud.
*[[1998]] &ndash; [[Nuclear weapons testing|Nuclear testing]]: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed ''[[Chagai-I]]'', prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose [[economic sanctions]]. Pakistan celebrates [[Youm-e-Takbir]] annually.
*[[1999]] &ndash; In [[Milan]], Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, [[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s masterpiece ''[[The Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci)|The Last Supper]]'' is put back on display.
*[[2002]] &ndash; The last steel girder is removed from the original [[World Trade Center site]]. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at [[World Trade Center site|Ground Zero]] in [[Manhattan]], New York City.  
*[[2003]] &ndash; [[Peter Hollingworth]] resigns as [[Governor-General of Australia]] following criticism of his handling of child sexual abuse allegations during his tenure as [[Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane]].
*[[2004]] &ndash; The [[Iraqi Governing Council]] chooses [[Ayad Allawi]], a longtime anti-[[Saddam Hussein]] exile, as prime minister of [[Iraq]]'s interim government.
*[[2008]] &ndash; The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of [[Nepal]] formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the [[Shah dynasty]].
*[[2010]] &ndash; In [[West Bengal]], India, the [[Jnaneswari Express train derailment]] and subsequent collision kills 148 passengers.
*[[2011]] &ndash; [[Malta]] [[Maltese divorce referendum, 2011|votes]] on the introduction of divorce; the proposal was approved by 53% of voters, resulting in a law allowing divorce under certain conditions being enacted later in the year.
*[[2016]] &ndash; [[Harambe]], a [[gorilla]], is shot to death after grabbing a three-year-old boy in his enclosure at the [[Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden]], resulting in widespread criticism and sparking various [[internet meme]]s.<ref>{{YouTube|id=Zfuz7cTDNeI|title=Cincinnati zoo kills gorilla to save boy who fell into enclosure}}</ref><ref name="wapo">{{cite news|author=Abby Ohlheiser|date=July 27, 2016|title=The Internet won't let Harambe rest in peace|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/07/27/the-internet-wont-let-harambe-rest-in-peace/|access-date=August 18, 2016|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref>
*[[2017]] &ndash; Former [[Formula One]] driver [[Takuma Sato]] wins his first [[2017 Indianapolis 500|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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Results|url=https://www.indycar.com/results/ntt-indycar-series/2017/101st-running-of-the-indianapolis-500/race?&year=2017|access-date=2021-05-28|website=IndyCar.com}}</ref>