May 28
Today is 
Menstrual Hygiene Day.  Please make a note of it.
1588  The 
Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, 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 
James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby.
1754  
French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 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  
U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the 
Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans.
1892  In San Francisco, 
John Muir organizes the 
Sierra Club.
1907  The first 
Isle of Man TT race was held.
1934  Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, 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.
Volkswagen (VW), the German automobile manufacturer is founded.
1951  The British radio comedy program 
The Goon Show is broadcast on the BBC for the first time.
1958  
Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's 
26th of 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.
1969 -  Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull were arrested at their London home and charged with possession of cannabis.
1977  In Southgate, Kentucky, the 
Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers play together for the first time when they perform as part of Mike Howlett's band, Strontium 90.
1985 - 
Desert Island Discs radio presenter 
Roy Plomley died. He devised the BBC Radio series Desert Island Discs in 1941, and went on to present 1,791 editions of the show, which became one of the longest running radio shows in the UK.
1987  
West German pilot Mathias Rust, who was 18 years old, evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the 
Red Square in Moscow, Russia. He is immediately detained and would not be released until August 3, 1988.
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, 
Jim McDougal and 
Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas 
Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
1999  In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece 
The Last Supper is put back on display.
2002  The last steel girder is removed from the original 
World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.
2011  Malta votes on the 
introduction of divorce.  Welcome to the nineteenth century, Malta.
Births
1818  P. G. T. Beauregard; 1888  Jim Thorpe; 1908  Ian Fleming; 1910  T-Bone Walker; 1917  Papa John Creach; 1922  Lou Duva (boxing manager); 1933  John Karlen ('Lacey''s husband on "
Cagney & Lacey", "
Dark Shadows"); 1936  Betty Shabazz; 1944  Rudy Giuliani; 1944  Gladys Knight; 1944  Sondra Locke; 1944  Gary Stewart, Billy Vera; 1945  Patch Adams (no, 
the real one); 1945  John Fogerty; 1949  Wendy O. Williams (
Plasmatics); Kamala, The Ugandan Giant (wrestler); Townsend Coleman (voice of "
The Tick"); 1961  Michelle Collins; 1962 - Roland Gift (Fine Young Cannibals); 1964  Phil Vassar; 1968  Kylie Minogue; 1969  Rob Ford; 1971  Marco Rubio; 1977  Elisabeth Hasselbeck; 1985  Colbie Caillat
Deaths
1843  Noah Webster; 1849  Anne Brontλ; 1971  Audie Murphy; 1998  Phil Hartman; 2003  Martha Scott; 2010  Gary Coleman; 2014  Maya Angelou; 2015  Reynaldo Rey