05-28-2005, 06:16 AM
|
|
Registered User
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Maryland
Posts: 541,353
|
|
|
May 28th
1588 ~ The Spanish Armada, started out from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.
1892 ~ In San Francisco, California, John Muir organized the Sierra Club.
1908 ~ Birthday of Ian Fleming, author of James Bond books.
1925 ~ Birthday of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone.
1934 ~ Birthday of The Dionne quintuplets, the world's first surviving quintuplets.
1939 ~ Alan Turing submitted On Computable Numbers for publication.
1964 ~ The Palestine Liberation Organization was formed.
1971 ~ Death of Audie Murphy, American actor and war hero.
1982 ~ Falklands War: British forces defeated the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
1987 ~ 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evaded Soviet air defenses and landed a private plane in Red Square in Moscow.
__________________
Eudaimonia
|