Updated May 28, 2012, 2:28 pm
On May 28, 1984, President Reagan led a state funeral at Arlington National Cemetery for an unidentified American soldier killed in the Vietnam War.
Go to article »On May 28, 1887, Jim Thorpe, the accomplished all-around athlete, was born. Following his death on March 28, 1953, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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On This Date
By The Associated Press
1533 England’s Archbishop declared the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid. 1892 The Sierra Club was organized in San Francisco. 1934 The Dionne quintuplets – Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne – were born to Elzire Dionne in Ontario, Canada. 1937 Neville Chamberlain became prime minister of Britain. 1940 The Belgian army surrendered to invading German forces during World War II. 1957 The National League approved the move of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants baseball teams to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively. 1985 David Jacobsen, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, was abducted by pro-Iranian kidnappers. 1987 Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow’s Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses. 1996 President Bill Clinton’s former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James and Susan McDougal and Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, were convicted of fraud. 1998 Pakistan matched India with five nuclear test blasts. 1998 Comic actor Phil Hartman of “Saturday Night Live” and “NewsRadio” fame was shot to death by his wife, Brynn, who then killed herself. 2002 NATO declared Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance. 2006 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit his 715th home run to pass Babe Ruth on the career list and move into second place behind Hank Aaron. 2010 Gary Coleman, the former child star of the 1970s TV sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes,” died at age 42 of a brain hemorrhage. Current Birthdays
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Actress Carey Mulligan turns 27 years old today.
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R&B singer Gladys Knight turns 68 years old today.
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1938 Jerry West, Basketball Hall of Famer, turns 74 1941 Beth Howland, Actress (“Alice”), turns 71 1944 Rudolph Giuliani, Former New York City mayor, turns 68 1944 Sondra Locke, Actress, turns 68 1945 John Fogerty, Rock musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival), turns 67 1956 Jerry Douglas, Country musician (Union Station), turns 56 1960 Mark Sanford, Former governor of South Carolina, turns 52 1962 Brandon Cruz, Actor (“The Courtship of Eddie’s Father”), turns 50 1968 Kylie Minogue, Rock singer, turns 44 1969 Justin Kirk, Actor (“Weeds”), turns 43 1971 Marco Rubio, U.S. senator, R-Fla., turns 41 1977 Elisabeth Hasselbeck, TV host (“The View”), turns 35
Historic Birthdays
Jim Thorpe 5/28/1887 – 3/28/1953 American athlete; excelled in many sports.Go to obituary »
46 William Pitt, the younger 5/28/1759 – 1/23/1806
English prime minister (1783-1801, 1804-6)72 Thomas Moore 5/28/1779 – 2/25/1852
Irish poet, satirist, composer and musician74 P. G. T. Beauregard 5/28/1818 – 2/20/1893
American Confederate general71 Tony Pastor 5/28/1837 – 8/26/1908
American vaudeville entertainer64 Edvard Benes 5/28/1884 – 9/3/1948
Czech statesman, foreign minister and president in 193556 Ian Fleming 5/28/1908 – 8/12/1964
English novelist; created James Bond character57 Randolph Churchill 5/28/1911 – 6/6/1968
English author, journalist and politician78 Patrick White 5/28/1912 – 9/30/1990
Australian novelist and playwright; awarded Nobel Prize in 197373 Walker Percy 5/28/1916 – 5/10/1990
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