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1431: Joan of Arc is accused of relapsing into heresy by donning male clothing again, providing justification for her execution.
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1934: The Dionne quintuplets — Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie, and Yvonne — were born to Elzire Dionne at the family farm in Ontario, Canada. The identical quintuplets, born at least two months premature, are the first known quintuplets to survive infancy.
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1937: Volkswagen is founded. On May 28, 1937, the government of Germany—then under the control of Adolf Hitler of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party—forms a new state-owned automobile company, then known as Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens mbH. Later that year, it was renamed simply Volkswagenwerk, or “The People’s Car Company.”
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1959: The U.S. Army launched Able, a rhesus monkey, and Baker, a squirrel monkey, aboard a Jupiter missile for a suborbital flight which both primates survived.
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1961: Amnesty International is founded. The publication of Peter Benenson’s article “The Forgotten Prisoners” is commonly considered the organization’s birth hour. Amnesty International is one of the world’s most influential human rights organizations.
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1964: Palestine Liberation Organization is founded. The Palestine Liberation Organization was founded. In February of 1969, Yasir Arafat was elected as its leader. By 1974, when he addressed the United Nations, Arafat had made significant strides toward establishing new respectability for the PLO’s campaign for a Palestinian homeland. But gaining legitimacy hinged on cooling down terrorism, and Arafat found it increasingly difficult to reconcile the moderate and extremist segments of Palestinian politics.
1975: The trade bloc the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is founded in Lagos, Nigeria. Its goal is to promote economic growth and self-sufficiency among its 15 member states.
1982: Falklands War: British troops re-captured Port Darwin and Goose Green, taking almost 1500 Argentine prisoners.
1987: Mathias Rust lands on the Red Square in Moscow. The 19-year old West German amateur pilot illegally landed his Cessna in the heart of the Russian capital at the height of the Cold War.
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1998: Pakistan detonates five atom bombs. The nuclear tests came as a response to India’s tests just days earlier. Fearing a devastating conflict between the two nuclear powers, several countries, including the U.S. and Japan, imposed economic sanctions.
2003: The first-ever cloned horse was born in a natural delivery. Additionally, it was the first cloned mammal born to its genetic mother. The foal was named Prometea, and it was created in a lab by fusing an adult skin cell and an empty egg then returning the resulting embryo to the female’s womb after a few days.
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2010: Terrorists attack Ahmadiyya mosques in Pakistan. As Friday prayers came to a close on May 28, 2010, in Lahore, Pakistan, seven terrorists wielding guns, grenades, and suicide vests stormed into two crowded Ahmadi Muslim mosques and opened fire, killing 94 victims and injuring more than 120. The coordinated attacks took place just minutes apart.
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2014: Maya Angelou, American poet and memoirist Maya Angelou—whose several volumes of autobiography explore the themes of economic, racial, and sexual oppression—died at age 86.
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2016: Harambe the Gorilla was shot to death inside his enclosure in the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden. Harambe was relaxing inside the Gorilla World habitat when a three-year-old boy managed to climb into the enclosure and fell into the moat. Although it appeared that Harambe was protecting the boy and saving it from drowning, zoo officials decided to shoot Harambe as they feared he might accidentally kill the child.
BIRTHS ON THIS DAY: May 28
Beverly Afaglo, 41 years
Ghanaian actress, TV presenter, and beautician, in Volta Region, Ghana was born on 28 May 1983. Named Best Actress in a Comedy 2010 by Nigeria’s Terracotta Awards, she was trained both as a journalist and as a beautician, and both combined when she used her broadcasting platform to advocate for women to adopt a natural African look.
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Alec Benjamin, 30 years
Alec Shane Benjamin is an American singer, songwriter, and musician was born on 28 May 1994 in Phoenix, Arizona. His 2018 breakthrough single “Let Me Down Slowly” reached the top 40 in over 25 countries and has amassed over 1.7 billion streams on Spotify as of December 2023.
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Ian Fleming 28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964
Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels.
Fleming moved through several jobs before he started writing. While working for Britain’s Naval Intelligence Division during the Second World War, Fleming was involved in planning Operation Goldeneye and in the planning and oversight of two intelligence units: 30 Assault Unit and T-Force. He drew from his wartime service and his career as a journalist for much of the background, detail, and depth of his James Bond novels. Fleming wrote his first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1952, at age 44
He died at the age of 56.
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