May 28: Day Of The Week
May 28, 2013 is the 148th day of the year 2013 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 217 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Kayōbi.
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Here’s the May calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
| May | ||||||
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| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
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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 | |
Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
May 28 Historical 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.
- 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.
- 1934 –Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
- 1940 –World War II: Belgium surrenders to Germany to end the Battle of Belgium.
- 1942 –World War II: in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800 people.
- 1979 –Constantine Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
- 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.
- 2002 –NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
Who were born on May 28?
- 1676 –Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (d. 1754)
- 1763 –Manuel Alberti, Argentine priest and head of state (d. 1811)
- 1878 –Paul Pelliot, French sinologist (d. 1945)
- 1933 –John Karlen, American actor
- 1946 –Skip Jutze, American baseball player
- 1950 –Ian Bradley, British writer and academic
- 1956 –Markus Höttinger, Austrian racing driver (d. 1980)
- 1962 –Roland Gift, English singer (Fine Young Cannibals)
- 1965 –Chris Ballew, American bassist (The Presidents of the United States of America)
- 1970 –Ian Cashmore, English actor and paranormal investigator
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