Like today 28 May 2022

What happened like today in Greece and the world.

585 BC: An eclipse of the Sun occurs, which was predicted by Thales the Milesian, during a battle between Alyattis II and Kyaxaris.

1588: The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sails from Lisbon, Portugal to the Channel.

1754: The Virginia Militia, under 22-year-old Lt. Col. George Washington, defeats a French reconnaissance force at the Battle of Zamonville Glenn in southwestern Pennsylvania.

1802: In Guadeloupe, Louis Delgre and his 300 comrades committed suicide with explosives to avoid surrendering to Napoleon’s troops.

1830: The President of the United States, Andrew Jackson, signs a law by which he moves the Native Americans.

1871: The Paris Commune, the workers’ revolutionary government that was established in Paris after the uprising of the National Guard and the workers of the city and lasted for about two months (from March 26), is overthrown.

1905: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by the Japanese.

1918: The People’s Republic of Azerbaijan and the First Republic of Armenia declare their independence.

1926: A coup takes place in Portugal and a dictatorial regime is established.

1934: The quintuplets of the Dion family are born in Canada. It is the first time, in a multiple pregnancy, that it affects all babies.

1937: The German car industry Volkswagen is founded.

1940: Belgium surrenders to Nazi Germany.

1940: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first victory of the Allied infantry in the war.

1952: Greek women acquire the right to vote and to be elected.

1961: Amnesty International is founded. She will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 16 years later for her contribution to the protection of human rights.

1961: Peter Benenson’s article “The Forgotten Prisoners” is published in the British newspaper The Observer. The publication of the article will later be established as a founding event of Amnesty International.

1969: It is announced that the metropolitan of Ioannina, Seraphim, will lead the struggle for northern Epirus.

1969: Milan beats Ajax 4-1 at the “Santiago Bernabeu” and wins the 14th European Champions Cup. ERT broadcasts for the first time a live football match and Giannis Diakogiannis makes his maiden appearance in the description.

1979: Konstantinos Karamanlis signs at the Zappeion Megaron the agreement for the full integration of Greece in the European Economic Community. Negotiations began in 1976 and were completed in May 1979. The agreement was ratified by the Greek Parliament a month later, on 28 June.

1987: The 19-year-old pilot, Matthias Rust, of West Germany, manages to bypass the Soviet Union’s air defenses and lands a private jet in Moscow’s Red Square. He was immediately arrested and detained until August 3, 1988.

1995: The Russian city of Neftegorsk was shaken by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake, which killed at least 2,000 people, almost half of its population.

1997: The armed organization “November 17” murders the shipowner Costas Peratikos in Piraeus.

1998: Pakistan is responding to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own tests codenamed Chagai-I, prompting a backlash from the United States, Japan and other countries imposing economic sanctions.

1999: The 22-year maintenance work of the “Secret Supper” is completed and the famous work of Da Vinci is open again to the public in Milan, Italy.

2002: NATO announces Russia as a “limited” partner of the Western alliance.

2008: The first session of Nepal’s constitutional parliament formally declares democracy in the country, ending a 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.

2009: AC / DC is visiting Greece for the first and only time, as part of their world tour entitled “Black Ice Tour”. Their concert takes place at the crowded Olympic Stadium.

2020: Protests continue for a second day in Minneapolis and two other US cities, following the death of an unarmed man named George Floyd, who died while in custody. Episodes erupt in some demonstrations, accompanied by looting and arson. A protester is shot dead by a man who is arrested.

2021: A mass grave containing the remains of 215 indigenous children is discovered on the site of a former school in British Columbia, Canada.

Births

1369 – Giacomo Attentolo Sforza, Italian shorthair

1371 – John, Duke of Burgundy

1524 – Selim II, Ottoman Sultan

1738 – Joseph Inias Guillotin, French physician

1759 – William Pitt the Younger, English politician

1853 – Carl Larson, Swedish painter

1858 – Carl Ricard Niemberg, Swedish inventor

1879 – Milutin Milankovic, Serbian geophysicist

1884 – Edward Benes, Czech politician

1892 – Zep Dietrich, German soldier

1908 – Ian Fleming, English writer

1910 – T-Bone Walker, American musician

1912 – Patrick White, Australian writer

1916 – Walker Percy, American writer

1923 – Giergi Ligeti, Hungarian composer

1925 – Martha Vickers, American actress

1925 – Bulent Ecevit, Turkish politician

1943 – Elena Soulioti, Greek vocalist

1944 – Jean-Pierre Leo, French actor

1956 – Khaled Mashal, Palestinian politician

1961 – Omer Assan, Turkish folklorist and photographer

1968 – Kylie Minogue, Australian singer and actress

1969 – George Liagas, Greek journalist

1971 – Marco Rubio, American politician

1985 – Carey Mulligan, English actress

1999 – Cameron Boyce, American actor

Deaths

1357 – Alfonso IV, King of Portugal

1427 – Eric, Prince of Grubenhagen

1509 – Catherine Sforza, Italian noblewoman

1849 – Anne Brodeur, English writer

1870 – Dimitrios Bernardakis, Greek merchant and benefactor

1888 – Constantine Ischomachus, Greek politician

1924 – Ioannis Polemis, Greek writer

1937 – Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist

1940 – Frederick Charles of Hesse, King of Finland

1972 – Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom

1974 – Michalis Tombros, Greek sculptor

1980 – Rolf Nevanlina, German mathematician

1981 – George Karatzopoulos, Greek basketball player and coach

1989 – Theodoros Kalkanis, Greek politician

2003 – Ilya Prigogine, Russian chemist

2007 – Jεrg Emendorf, German painter

2013 – Fotis Polymeris, Greek singer

2014 – Maya Angelou, American author

2018 – Dick Quax, New Zealand athlete

2018 – Jens Christian Schow, Danish doctor