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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

This will be 148th day of the year and 217 days will remain in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 19 Sivan 5773
Chinese calendar — the 19th day of the 4th month of 4711 (Kui Si)
Islamic calendar — (note)

May 28 Birthdays

Jim Thorpe
1888–1953, American athlete, born near Prague, Oklahoma.

William Pitt
statesman (1759)

Thomas Moore
poet (1779)

P. G. T. Beauregard
Confederate general (1818)

Carl Larsson
painter and illustrator (1853)

Ian Fleming
author (1908)

May 2013

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5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

May 28 in History

1863

Robert Gould Shaw, leading the first northern all-black regiment, leaves Boston for the Civil War.

1929

The first all-color, full-length talking picture, On With the Show!, debuted.

1934

The Dionne quintuplets were born in Ontario, Canada.

1957

Baseball owners voted to allow the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants to move to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively. Many New Yorkers still haven’t recovered. See other baseball city and nickname changes.

1987

Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old pilot from West Germany, landed his private plane in Moscow’s Red Square. He was arrested and sentenced to four years in a labor camp, but was released after just one.

1997

Linda Finch completed Amelia Earhart's attempted around-the-world flight.

1998

Pakistan staged nuclear tests in response to India's nuclear tests two weeks earlier.

2003

Pres. Bush signed a $350 billion tax cut into law; the third largest tax cut in U.S. history.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.