Sunday, May 28, 2000
History today -- 9:49 am CST, Update by The Master
- 1533: The Archbishop of England declares King Henry VII's marriage to Anne Boleyn valid.
- 1863: The first black regiment from the North leaves Boston to fight in the Civil War.
- 1937: Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of Britain.
- 1940: The Belgian Army surrenders to German forces.
- 1977: 165 people are killed in a fire that swept through the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, KY.
- 1982: British forces retake Port Darwin and Goose Green from Argentinian forces in the Falklands War. At least 1,400 prisoners were taken.
- 1984: President Reagan led a state funeral at Arlington National Cemetary for an unidentified American soldier killed in the Vietnam War. (The remains were later exhumed and identified as Air Force 1st Lt. Michael J. Blaise, and sent home for burial).
- 1985: David Jacobson, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, was abducted by pro-Iranian kidnappers (he was freed 17 months later).
- 1987: Mathias Rust, a 19-year old German pilot, lands his private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses.
- 1990: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein opened a two-day Arab League summit in Baghdad with a keynote address stating if Israel were to deploy nuclear or chemical weapons against Arabs, Iraq would respond with "weapons of mass destruction."
- 1995: A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck the Russian town of Neftegorsk, killing at least 2,000 people and devistating the town.
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