May
28
International Day of Action for Women's Health
& Reproductive Rights
On May 28, the Center for Reproductive Rights
joins health and women’s rights advocates
from around the world in commemorating the
International Day of Action for Women’s Health.
The
Center also calls on governments to ensure
access to sexual and reproductive health services,
including contraception, which is essential
to improve women and adolescent girls’ health.
“Guaranteeing
access to affordable, acceptable and good
quality contraceptive services and information,
free from coercion, discrimination and violence,
is critical for achieving gender equality
and ensuring that women can participate as
full members of society,” said Lilian Sepúlveda,
Deputy Director of the International Legal
Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights.
May
28
Armenia
Republic Day, independence from the Transcaucasian
Democratic Federative Republic 1918
Azerbaijan
Republic Day, independence from the Transcaucasian
Democratic Federative Republic 1918
Events
585
BC – 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.
1503 – James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor
are married according to a Papal Bull by Pope
Alexander VI. A Treaty of Everlasting Peace
between Scotland and England signed on that
occasion results in a peace that lasts ten
years.
1533 – The Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas
Cranmer declares the marriage of King Henry
VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid.
1588 – The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships
and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon heading
for the English Channel. (It will take until
May 30 for all ships to leave port).
1644 – Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops
under the command of the Earl of Derby.
1754 – French and Indian War: in the first
engagement of the war, Virginia militia under
22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington
defeat a French reconnaissance party in the
Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette
County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
1830 – President Andrew Jackson signs the
Indian Removal Act which relocates Native
Americans.
1892 – In San Francisco, California, John
Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima
ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic
Fleet by Admiral Togo Heihachiro and the Imperial
Japanese Navy.
1918 – The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
and the Democratic Republic of Armenia declare
their independence.
1926 – 28th May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura
Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress
the unrest of the First Republic.
1930 – The Chrysler Building in New York City
officially opens.
1932 – In the Netherlands, construction of
the Afsluitdijk is completed and the Zuiderzee
bay is converted to the freshwater IJsselmeer.
1934 – Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne
quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne;
they will be the first quintuplets to survive
infancy.
1936 – Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers
for publication.
1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco,
California, is officially opened by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, D.C.,
who pushes a button signaling the start of
vehicle traffic over the span.
1940 – World War II: Belgium surrenders to
Germany to end the Battle of Belgium.
1940 – World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish
and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway.
This is the first allied infantry victory
of the War.
1942 – World War II: in retaliation for the
assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis
in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800 people.
1951 – British radio comedy programme The
Goon Show was broadcast on BBC for the first
time.
1952 – The women of Greece are given the right
to vote.
1958 – Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's 26
July movement, heavily reinforced by Frank
Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El
Uvero.
1961 – Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten
Prisoners is published in several internationally
read newspapers. This will later be thought
of as the founding of the human rights organization
Amnesty International.
1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization
is formed.
1974 – Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale
Agreement collapses following a general strike
by loyalists.
1975 – Fifteen West African countries sign
the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic
Community of West African States.
1977 – In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly
Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing
165 people inside.
1979 – Constantine Karamanlis signs the full
treaty of the accession of Greece with the
European Economic Community.
1982 – Falklands War: British forces defeat
the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
1987 – 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias
Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and
lands a private plane in the Red Square in
Moscow. He is immediately detained and will
not be released until August 3, 1988.
1991 – 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.
1993 – Eritrea and Monaco join the United
Nations.
1995 – The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit
by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at
least 2,000 people, half of the total population.
1996 – U.S. President Bill Clinton's former
business partners in the Whitewater land deal,
James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the
Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted
of fraud.
1998 – 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 – In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of
restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece
The Last Supper is put back on display.
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.
2010 – In West Bengal, India, a train derailment
and subsequent collision kills 141 passengers.
Holidays
and observances
Armed
Forces Day (Croatia)
Christian Feast Day:
Bernard of Menthon
Germain of Paris
Lanfranc
Margaret Pole
William of Gellone
May 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Downfall of the Derg Day, a National Day.
(Ethiopia)
Flag Day (Philippines)
Republic Day (Nepal)
Republic Day, celebrates the declaration of
independence of the Democratic Republic of
Armenia and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative
Republic in 1918. (Azerbaijan and Armenia)
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