28 Mey

The **28t o Mey** is the 148t day o the year (149t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 217 days ti come.

## Events

* 1503 - James IV, Keeng o Scots mairies Margaret Tudor.
* 1588 - The Spaingie Armada leaves Lisbon, Portugal.
* 1830 - US Preses Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act intae law.
* 1907 - The first Isle o Man TT motorcycle race is held.
* 1918 - Armenie an Azerbaijan declare their unthirldom.
* 1930 - Inauguration o the Chrysler Biggin in New York Ceety.
* 1934 - Birth near Callander, Ontario, o the Dionne quintuplets, the first quintuplets tae survive infancy.
* 1936 - Alan Turing submits his work "On Computable Numbers" for publication.
* 1937 - The Golden Gate Brig in San Francisco, Californie, opens tae vehicle traffic.
* 1937 - Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
* 1940 - French passenger ship Brazza is sunk bi a German U-boat off Portugal, killin 379 fowk.
* 1952 - Weemen in Greece get the richt tae vote.
* 1974 - Northren Ireland's pouer-sharin govrenment collapses efter a general strike bi Loyalists.
* 1993 - Eritrea an Monaco jyn the Unitit Naitions.
* 1998 - Pakistan carries oot nuclear tests.
* 2008 - Nepal offeecially becomes a republic.
* 2010 - A train accident in Wast Bengal, Indie, kills 141 fowk.
* 2011 - A majority (53%) in Maltae vote tae legalise divorce.
* 2019 - Daniel Johnson an Neil Findlay demit frae the Scots Labour Pairty's front bench efter the pairty's defeat in the European Pairlament elections.
* 2019 - A record crowd for a weemen's fitbaw match in Scotland (at ower 18,000) turns oot tae watch the Scotland weemen's naitional fitbaw team win 3-2 agin Jamaica in its last gemme afore the FIFA Weemen's Warld Cup.

## Births

* 1524 - Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1574)
* 1660 - George I o Great Breetain (d. 1727)
* 1759 - William Pitt the Younger, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1806)
* 1807 - Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American paleontologist an geologist (d. 1873)
* 1853 - Carl Larsson, Swadish penter (d. 1919)
* 1868 - Robert Munro, 1st Baron Alness, Scots lawyer, juidge an politeecian (d. 1953)
* 1908 - Ian Fleming, Inglis writer (d. 1964)
* 1912 - Patrick White, Australian writer (d. 1990)
* 1930 - Edward Seaga, 5t Prime meenister o Jamaica (d. 2019)
* 1939 - Maeve Binchy, Erse writer (d. 2012)
* 1944 - Rudy Giuliani, umwhile Mayor o New York Ceety
* 1944 - Gladys Knight, American sangster an actress
* 1945 - John Fogerty, American sangster
* 1965 - Mary Coughlan, Erse politeecian
* 1968 - Kylie Minogue, Australian sangster an actress
* 1971 - Marco Rubio, American politeecian
* 1972 - Chiara Mastroianni, French actress an sangster
* 1985 - Colbie Caillat, American sangster-sangwriter an guitarist
* 1985 - Carey Mulligan, Inglis actress
* 1990 - Kyle Walker, Inglis fitbawer
* 1994 - John Stones, Inglis fitbawer
* 1999 - Cameron Boyce, American actor (d. 2019)

## Daiths
* 576 - Germain o Paris, French bishop an saunt (b. 496)
* 1811 - Henry Dundas, 1st Viscoont Melville, Scots politeecian (b. 1742)
* 1849 - Anne Bronte, Inglis novelist an poet (b. 1820)
* 1878 - John Russell, 1st Yerl Russell, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1792)
* 1972 - Edward VIII, King o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1894)
* 2003 - Ilya Prigogine, Roushie-Belgian pheesical chemist (b. 1917)
* 2010 - Gary Coleman, American actor (b. 1968)
* 2014 - Maya Angelou, American poet (b. 1928)
* 2018 - Neale Cooper, Scots fitbawer (b. 1963)
* 2018 - Jens Christian Skou, Dens medicinar (b. 1918)
* 2019 - Edward Seaga, 5t Prime meenister o Jamaica (b. 1930)

## Halidays
* Republic Day (Armenie, Azerbaijan, Nepal)
* Flag Day (Philippines)
* Armed Forces Day (Croatie)
* Downfall o the Derg (Ethiopie)
* St. Germain o Paris