May 28......

May 28 is the 148th (149th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 217 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Hope "To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death." — Pearl S. Buck

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Union Disregard "Labor unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are better workers." — Jerry Falwell

Thought for the day: "Every human being comes equipped with a brain at no extra cost."

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 585 BCE - A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.

● 640 - Severinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope (elected in 638)

● 861 - Paris is again burned by the Vikings. A fine tradition.

● 1037 - German emperor Koenraad II removes "Constitutio the Feudis"

● 1108 - The Forces of Castile reached Ulces Castle, and prepared for the Battle of Ulces.

● 1156 - Battle at Brindisi: King Willem of Sicily beats Byzantine fleet

● 1349 - 60 Jews murdered in Breslau Silesia

● 1358 - Peasants in Jacquerie, France begin revolt against feudal landowners.

● 1503 - James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor are married by Pope Alexander VI according to Papal Bull.

● 1503 - The Treaty of Everlasting Peace between Scotland and England is signed, which would actually last 10 years.

● 1521 - Pope Leo X signs treaty with German emperor Charles V

● 1533 - England's archbishop affirms King Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn's marriage

● 1539 - Hernando de Soto lands in Florida

● 1588 - Alison Pearson burned in Scotland for sorcery.

● 1588 - The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, begins to set sail from Lisbon 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 the Earl of Derby.

● 1664 - 1st Baptist Church is organized (Boston)

● 1674 - German Parliament declares war on France

● 1725 - English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'I can't think that when God sent us into the world He had irreversibly decreed that we should be perpetually miserable in it.'

● 1731 - All Hebrew books in Papal State are confiscated

● 1741 - Spain & Bavaria sign treaty

● 1754 - French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under 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.

● 1774 - American Revolutionary War: The first Continental Congress convenes.

● 1818 - Former president Thomas Jefferson set forth in a letter to a Jewish journalist his opinion of religious intolerance: 'Your sect by its sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal point of religious insolence, inherent in every sect, disclaimed by all while feeble and practised by all when in power. Our laws have applied the only antidote to this vice, protecting our religions, as they do our civil rights, by putting all on equal footing. But more remains to be done.'

● 1818 - 1st steam-vessel to sail Great Lakes launched

● 1830 - Pres. Andrew Jackson's recommendation to move all Indians west of Mississippi River--a relocation plan later used as a model by South Africa's apartheid leaders--becomes law.

● 1838 - Two hundred thousand march at Chartist demonstration in Glasgow, Scotland.

● 1845 - Fire in Québec Canada, 1,500 houses destroyed

● 1851 - Sojourner Truth attends Women's Rights Convention

● 1863 - American Civil War: The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first African American regiment, leaves Boston, Massachusetts, to fight for the Union.

● 1866 - Dutch Government of Zuylen van Nijevelt/Heemskerk forms

● 1871 - Paris Commune crushed by French soldiers; 25,000 massacred.

● 1887 - Jim Thorpe, the accomplished all-around athlete, was born.

● 1892 - In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.

● 1898 - In Italy, the Shroud of Turin was first photographed by Secundo Pia in Turin's Cathedral, where it had rested for 320 years.

● 1900 - Britain annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony)

● 1900 - Solar eclipse occurs

● 1901 - Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition white phosphorous)

● 1905 - Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Togo Heihachiro and the Imperial Japanese Navy.

● 1908 - Ian Fleming, who created the character James Bond, was born.

● 1915 - John B Gruelle patents Raggedy Ann doll

● 1918 - The Democratic Republic of Armenia and Azerbaijan Democratic Republic declare their independence from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic.

● 1919 - Armenia declares it's independence

● 1923 - Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere

● 1923 - US unemployment has nearly ended

● 1926 - US Customs Court created by congress

● 1926 - Ditadura Nacional established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic. (28th May 1926 coup d'état.)

● 1930 - Georges Forbes succeeds Joseph Ward as premier of New Zealand

● 1931 - Italy - Michael Schirru is convicted for plotting to assassinate Mussolini. His one-day trial was presided over by Cristini -- a fascist cutthroat raised to the highest ranks in the government as a reward for his bloody propensities. No jury. No defense. No lawyers and no witnesses are admitted before Mussolini's Special Tribunal. At 2:30 AM the next morning, he was awakened and told that his execution would take place at sunrise. He was taken to the Braschi fortress, where he was executed, eight and a half hours after sentence was passed. He had not killed anybody. The death penalty, as it existed in Italy at that tome, could be applied legally only for the murder of the king, the crown prince, and Mussolini.

● 1934 - The Dionne quintuplets were born near Callender, Ontario, to Olivia and Elzire Dionne. The babies were 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, DC, who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.

● 1937 - Neville Chamberlain becomes British Prime Minister.

● 1940 - World War II: Belgium surrenders to Germany.

● 1940 - World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik. First allied infantry victory in World War II.

● 1942 - World War II: In retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1800 people.

● 1943 - British militia reaches Tito

● 1946 - General strike paralyzes Rochester, New York.

● 1948 - Iraq captures Ge'ulim settlement

● 1951 - Glasgow powers up for the Festival; Princess Elizabeth opens the Exhibition of Industrial Power in Glasgow - the latest show in the Festival of Britain.

● 1952 - The women of Greece gain the suffrage.

● 1954 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill which added the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance.

● 1955 - Henry Bolte becomes Premier of the state of Victoria.

● 1956 - Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus

● 1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1958 - The Presbyterian Church in the U.S. merged with the Presbyterian Church of North America to form the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (UPCUSA).

● 1958 - French Government of Pflimlin resigns/200,000 demonstrate against De Gaulle

● 1958 - Catholic anarchist Ammon Hennacy ends 40-day fast against U.S. nuclear weapons tests.

● 1959 - Congressional Committee of Astronautics meets Project 7 astronauts

● 1959 - Monkeys Able & Baker zoom 300 miles (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became 1st animals retrieved from a space mission

● 1961 - Amnesty International founded, Britain.

● 1961 - Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on Orient Express (after 78 years)

● 1962 - Suit alleging de facto school segregation filed in Rochester NY

● 1963 - Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; estimated 22,000 die & 1 million houses destroyed

● 1963 - Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st PM of Kenya

● 1964 - Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Dehli

● 1964 - Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit

● 1964 - The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.

● 1965 - Fire & explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400

● 1967 - Francis Chichester arrives home at Plymouth from Round-the-world trip

● 1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1968 - Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democratic primary in Oregon

● 1970 - Police arrest 40 anti-Nixon protesters for "disrupting a religious service" during a Billy Graham crusade in Tennessee.

● 1970 - The formerly united Free University of Brussels officially splits into two separate entities, the French-speaking Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Dutch-speaking Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

● 1971 - USSR Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars

● 1972 - Third "Watergate break-in" attempt by CREEP agents in three days succeeded, but the tap placed on Democratic Chairman Lawrence O'Brian's phone fails to operate. The same day, a second attempt to break into McGovern headquarters failed.

● 1974 - Atomic Energy Commission reports 861 "abnormal events" occurred during 1973 in the nation's 42 operative nuclear power plants. Of these, "only" 12 involved the release of radioactivity "above permissible levels."

● 1974 - Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.

● 1974 - Italians fascist bomb demonstrators in Brescia, 6 killed

● 1975 - Soyuz 18 launches

● 1975 - Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, thus creating the Economic Community of West African States.

● 1976 - The Peaceful Nuclear Explosion Treaty was signed, limiting any nuclear explosion - regardless of its purpose - to a yield of 150 kilotons.

● 1977 - In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.

● 1978 - Second round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta. Elections won by incumbent Sangoulé Lamizana.

● 1979 - Constantine Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.

● 1982 - Seven women fast for ten days in Springfield, Illinois in support of the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment by the Illinois state legislature.

● 1982 - First day of two-day blockade against stationing of Cruise missiles, Hasselbach, West Germany.

● 1982 - Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.

● 1982 - Pope John Paul II is 1st pope to visit Great Britain

● 1984 - President Reagan led a state funeral at Arlington National Cemetery for an unidentified American soldier killed in the Vietnam War. (The remains were later identified as those of Air Force Lt. Michael J. Blassie.)

● 1985 - David Jacobsen, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, was abducted by pro-Iranian kidnappers. He was freed 17 months later.

● 1985 - Discovery moves to Vandenberg Air Force Base for mating of STS 51-G

● 1986 - Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados

● 1987 - Stacking of Discovery's SRBs completed

● 1987 - 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in Red Square in Moscow. He is immediately detained and is not released until August 3, 1988.

● 1987 - A robot probe finds the wreckage of the USS Monitor near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

● 1990 - César Gaviria Trujillo installed as President of Colombia

● 1990 - Eugenia Charles' Dom'n Freedom Party wins election in Dominica

● 1991 - The capital city of Addis Ababa, falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.

● 1993 - 200,000 demonstrate against Mafia terror

● 1993 - Polish Government of Suchocka falls

● 1995 - The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, ⅔ of total population.

● 1996 - U.S. President Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal were convicted of fraud.

● 1997 - Tornado in Jarrell TX kills at least 28

● 1997 - Wallace Berg, 42, is 4th American to scale Mount Everest for 3rd time

● 1998 - Pakistan matched India with five nuclear test blasts. The U.S., Japan and other nations imposed economic sanctions. Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said "Today, we have settled the score with India."

● 1998 - Dr. Susan Terebey discoved a planet outside of our solar system with the use of photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

● 1999 - In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's newly-restored masterpiece "The Last Supper" is put back on display.

● 2000 - The volcano Mount Cameroon erupts.

● 2002 - Russia became a limited partner in NATO with the creation of the NATO-Russia Council.

● 2003 - President George W. Bush signed a 10-year, $350 billion package of tax cuts. {These are for the richest of the rich.}

● 2003 - Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct.

● 2004 - The Iraqi Governing Council chose Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.

● 2006 - German-born Pope Benedict XVI visits Auschwitz to conclude his pilgrimage to Poland.

BIRTHS

● 1140 - Xin Qiji, Chinese poet (d. 1207)

● 1371 - John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1419)

● 1524 - Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1574)

● 1582 - William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (d. 1662)

● 1588 - Pierre Seguier, Chancellor of France (d. 1672)

● 1641 - Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (d. 1693)

● 1660 - King George I of Great Britain (d. 1727)

● 1676 - Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (d. 1754)

● 1692 - Joseph Butler, English philosopher

● 1738 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician (d. 1814)

● 1759 - William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1783-1801, 1804-6) (d. 1806)

● 1779 - Thomas Moore, Irish poet (d. 1852)

● 1807 - Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born zoologist and geologist (d. 1873)

● 1818 - Pierre Beauregard, American Confederate general (d. 1893)

● 1836 - Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist (d. 1918)

● 1837 - George Ashlin, Irish architect (d.1921)

● 1837 - Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (d. 1908)

● 1853 - Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (d. 1919)

● 1858 - Carl Rickard Nyberg, Swedish inventor (d. 1939)

● 1872 - Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (d. 1917)

● 1878 - Paul Pelliot, French sinologist (d. 1945)

● 1883 - Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1966)

● 1883 - Clough Williams-Ellis, Welsh architect (d. 1978)

● 1884 - Edvard Beneš, Czech politician (d. 1948)

● 1887 - Jim Thorpe, American athlete (d. 1953)

● 1892 - Sepp Dietrich, German SS officer (d. 1966)

● 1900 - Tommy Ladnier, American musician (d. 1939)

● 1908 - Ian Fleming, English author (d. 1964)

● 1909 - Red Horner, Canadian hockey star

● 1910 - T-Bone Walker, American singer (d. 1975)

● 1910 - Lady Rachel Kempson, English actress (d. 2003)

● 1911 - Randolph Churchill, English author, journalist and politician (d. 1968)

● 1911 - Thora Hird, British actress (d. 2003)

● 1911 - Fritz Hochwälder, Austrian author (d. 1986)

● 1912 - Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)

● 1912 - Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (d. 1992)

● 1914 - W. G. G. Duncan Smith, British World War II pilot (d. 1996)

● 1915 - Joseph Greenberg, American linguist (d. 2001)

● 1916 - Walker Percy, American author (d. 1990)

● 1917 - Papa John Creech, American musician (d. 1994)

● 1918 - Johnny Wayne, Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster) (d. 1990)

● 1921 - Heinz G. Konsalik, German author (d. 1999)

● 1922 - Lou Duva, American boxing trainer

● 1923 - György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (d. 2006)

● 1923 - Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian actor,director,producer and politician (d. 1998)

● 1925 - Bülent Ecevit, Prime Minister of Turkey

● 1925 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone

● 1931 - Irwin Winkler, Director

● 1931 - Carroll Baker, American actress

● 1933 - John Karlen, Actor

● 1934 - Dionne quintuplets (Emilie d. 1954, Marie d. 1970, Yvonne d. 2001)

● 1936 - Betty Shabazz, American civil rights leader (d. 1997)

● 1938 - Jerry West, American basketball player and Hall of Fame member

● 1941 - Beth Howland, American actress ("Vera" on Alice)

● 1942 - Stanley B. Prusiner, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

● 1943 - Terry Crisp, NHL Coach

● 1943 - Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano (d. 2004)

● 1944 - Rudy Giuliani, ex-Mayor of New York City

● 1944 - Gladys Knight, American singer

● 1944 - Patricia Quinn, Northern Irish actress

● 1944 - Billy Vera, American actor and musician

● 1944 - Faith Brown, British actress

● 1945 - John Fogerty, American musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival)

● 1945 - Gary Stewart, American singer (d. 2003)

● 1945 - Hunter "Patch" Adams, American doctor

● 1946 - Satchidanandan, Indian-born poet

● 1946 - Skip Jutze, baseball player

● 1947 - Sondra Locke, American actress

● 1947 - Zahi Hawass, Egyptologist

● 1949 - Wendy O. Williams, American musician (The Plasmatics) (d. 1998)

● 1950 - Jim Harris, American professional wrestler

● 1952 - Russell J. Wintner, American Hollywood executive

● 1955 - John McGeoch, Scottish musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees) (d. 2004)

● 1955 - Mark Howe, Professional ice hockey player

● 1956 - Julie Peasgood, British actress

● 1956 - Jerry Douglas (musician), American dobro player

● 1957 - Kirk Gibson, baseball player

● 1957 - Ben Howland, NCAA basketball coach

● 1959 - John Morgan, etiquette expert

● 1960 - Mark Sanford, Governor of South Carolina

● 1962 - Phil Vassar, Country singer

● 1962 - Brandon Cruz, American actor

● 1962(61? NYT) - Roland Gift, English musician (Fine Young Cannibals)

● 1962 - James Michael Tyler, actor-best known as Gunther on "Friends".

● 1963 - Houman Younessi, Iranian-born scientist

● 1964 - Jeff Fenech, Australian boxer

● 1964 - Christa Miller, American actress

● 1964 - David Baddiel, English comedian, novelist and television presenter

● 1964 - Phil Vassar, country music artist

● 1965 - Chris Ballew, American musician (Presidents of the USA)

● 1968 - Kylie Minogue, Australian actress and singer

● 1969 - Justin Kirk, Actor ("Weeds")

● 1969 - Mike DiFelice, Baseball player

● 1970 - Morgan Fox, Canadian model and 1990 Playboy playmate

● 1970 - Ian Cashmore, UK actor, tv presenter & paranormal investigator

● 1971 - Isabelle Carré, French actress

● 1971 - Ekaterina Gordeeva, Russian Olympic and World Figure Skating Champion

● 1972 - Michael Boogerd, Dutch cyclist

● 1972 - Guidoni Junior Doriva, Brazilian footballer

● 1976 - Liam O'Brien, American voice actor

● 1976 - Alexei Nemov, Russian gymnast

● 1977 - Jeremy Borash, American professional wrestling announcer

● 1977 - Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American television panelist (The View)

● 1979 - Jesse Bradford, American actor

● 1979 - Monica Keena, American actress

● 1980 - Mark Feehily, Irish musician (Westlife)

● 1980 - Miguel Pérez, Spanish footballer

● 1981 - Adam Green, American singer and songwriter

● 1982 - Alexa Davalos, American actress

● 1982 - Jhonny Peralta, American baseball player

● 1986 - Joseph Cross, Actor

● 1986 - Charles N'Zogbia, French footballer

DEATHS

● 1357 - King Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1291)

● 1672 - John Trevor, English politician (b. 1626)

● 1747 - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (b. 1715)

● 1750 - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1720)

● 1787 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1719)

● 1805 - Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (b. 1743)

● 1808 - Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (b. 1720)

● 1811 - Henry Dundas, British minister (b. 1742)

● 1843 - Noah Webster, American author, politician, and lexicographer (b. 1758)

● 1849 - Anne Brontë, English author (b. 1820)

● 1878 - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)

● 1916 - Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1856)

● 1927 - Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (b. 1878)

● 1937 - Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (b. 1870)

● 1940 - Friedrich Karl von Hessen (b. 1868)

● 1947 - August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (b. 1907)

● 1948 - Unity Mitford, English fascist sympathizer (b. 1914)

● 1968 - Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Yakut-born Soviet sniper (b. 1908)

● 1971 - Audie Murphy, American actor and war hero (b. 1924)

● 1971 - Jean Vilar, French actor (b. 1912)

● 1972 - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)

● 1975 - Ezzard Charles, Heavyweight champion (b. 1921)

● 1976 - Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (b. 1922)

● 1978 - Arthur Brough, English actor (b. 1905)

● 1980 - Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1895)

● 1981 - Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński, Archbishop of Warsaw (b. 1901)

● 1984 - Eric Morecambe, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise) (b. 1926)

● 1988 - Sy Oliver, Jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader (b. 1910)

● 1993 - Billy Conn, American boxer and actor (b. 1917)

● 1994 - Julius Boros, American golfer (b. 1920)

● 1994 - Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American writer (b. 1916)

● 1998 - Phil Hartman, Canadian actor, comedian (b. 1948)

● 2001 - Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher (b. 1946)

● 2002 - Jean Berger, German-born composer (b. 1909)

● 2003 - Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut (b. 1933)

● 2003 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)

● 2003 - Martha Scott, American actress (b. 1912)

● 2004 - Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-born automobile executive (b. 1934)

● 2006 - Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (b. 1920)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Augustine, 1st Archbishop of Canterbury
● St. Bernard of Montjoux, patron of mountain climbers
● St. Caraunus
● St. Emilius
● St. Germain of Paris
● St. Heliconis
● St. Justus of Urgel
● St. Lanfranc
● St. Mariana
● St. Paul Hanh
● St. Podius
● St. Senator
● St. William of Gellone
● Bl. John Shert
● Bl. Margaret Pole
● Bl. Robert Johnson
● Bl. Thomas Ford

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for May 15 (Civil Date: May 28)
● St. Pachomius the Great, founder of coenobitic monasticism
● St. Isaiah, Bishop and wonderworker of Rostov.
● The slain Crown Prince Demetrius of Moscow.
● St. Achilles, Bishop of Larissa.
● St. Euphrosynus, abbot, wonderworker of Pskov, and his disciple St. Serapion.
● St. Isaiah, wonderworker of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Pachomius, abbot, and St. Silvanus, of Nerekhta.
● St. Demetrius, prince-prisoner, of Uglich (Vologda).
● New-Martyrs Archbishop Pachomius of Chernigov (1938), his brother Archbishop Avercius (1927), their father Priest Nicholas Kedrov (1936), and their brother-in-law Priest Vladimir Zagarsky (1937).

● Greek Calendar:
● St. Barbarus the Myrrh-gusher of Corfu.
● St. Andrew the hermit and wonderworker.

● Republic Day in Azerbaijan and Armenia (both 1918).

● Puerto Rico : Memorial Day

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● US : Memorial Day/Decoration Day, a legal holiday (1868) - ( Monday )
● Virginia : Confederate Memorial Day (1868) - ( Monday )


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

Quotes of the Day taken from The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right Compiled by William P. Martin ©2004

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