May 28: Day of the Week
May 28, 2023 is the 148th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 217 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Nichiyōbi.
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Here’s the May calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
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.
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May 28 Historical Event(s)
- 1830President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans.
- 1930The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens.
- 1940World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War.
- 1961Peter 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.
- 1964The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.
- 1979Constantine Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
- 198719-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.
- 1995The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, half of the total population.
- 1999In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
- 2004The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq’s interim government.
Who were born on May 28?
- 1837George Ashlin, Irish architect (d. 1921)
- 1914W. G. G. Duncan Smith, British World War II pilot (d. 1996)
- 1931Carroll Baker, American actress
- 1934Yvonne Dionne, Dionne quintuplets(d. 2001)
- 1949Wendy O. Williams, American vocalist (Plasmatics) (d. 1998)
- 1955Mark Howe, American ice hockey player
- 1964David Baddiel, British comedian and television presenter
- 1970Bobby Bognar, American singer (The Piper Downs)
- 1978Rufa Mae Quinto, Filipino actress and comedienne
- 1983Steve Cronin, American footballer
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