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Events that happened on May 28 throughout history.
1588 — The Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon, beginning its campaign to secure the English Channel and launch an invasion of England.
1754 — The first shots of the French and Indian War are fired in a skirmish led by a young George Washington in western Pennsylvania.
1830 — President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act into law, setting in motion the forced relocation of Native American tribes from their ancestral lands east of the Mississippi River.
1861 — President Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus is challenged in federal court during the Civil War, raising fundamental questions about executive power in wartime.
1918 — U.S. troops score a significant victory at the Battle of Cantigny in France, the first major American offensive of World War I.
1935 — John Steinbeck publishes “Tortilla Flat,” his first commercially successful novel.
1937 — Volkswagen is founded in Germany under the direction of the Nazi government, with Ferdinand Porsche designing the original “people’s car.”
1957 — Major League Baseball owners vote to allow the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants to relocate to Los Angeles and San Francisco.
1961 — British lawyer Peter Benenson publishes “The Forgotten Prisoners” in The London Observer, launching the Appeal for Amnesty campaign that would later become Amnesty International.
1964 — The Palestine Liberation Organization is founded at a summit in Jerusalem.
1983 — Irene Cara’s “Flashdance… What a Feeling” reaches No. 1 on the pop charts.
1991 — The Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa falls to rebel forces, ending 17 years of Marxist rule under Mengistu Haile Mariam.
1998 — Comedian and actor Phil Hartman, best known for his work on Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons, is shot and killed by his wife at their home in Encino, California.
2005 — A murder suspect spends three days perched atop a construction crane in London before being talked down by police.
2006 — Barry Bonds hits his 715th career home run, passing Babe Ruth to move into second place on Major League Baseball’s all-time home run list.
2010 — Coordinated terrorist attacks on two Ahmadiyya mosques in Lahore, Pakistan, kill nearly 100 worshippers during Friday prayers.