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What happened in history on this day: May 28?
On May 28 in ...
- 1774 - The first Continental Cogress convenes in Philadelphia.
- 1830 - US Congress authorizes Indian removal from all states to western prairie.
- 1861 - US Postage Office Department invalidates existing US postge stamps due to existence of the Confederate States of America.
- 1863 - First black regiment (54 Massachusetts) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War.
- 1863 - Edmund Kirby Junior, USA-Brigadier-General, dies of injuries at age 23.
- 1864 - Henry H Giesy, USA-Brigadier-General, dies in battle.
- 1892 - Sierra Club is formed by John Muir in San Francisco, California, USA for conservation of nature.
- 1901 - Laws against phosphor matches is enacted (inhibition of white phosphorous).
- 1926 - US Customs Court created by Congress.
- 1928 - American automakers Dodge Brothers Inc and Chrysler Corp merge.
- 1929 - First full-length all-color talking picture On With the Show is exhibited, in New York City.
- 1937 - Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opens to vehicular traffic.
- 1953 - Premiere of first animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor: Melody.
- 1956 - US President Dwight Eisenhower signs farm bill allowing government to store agricultural surplus.
- 1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1959 - US Congressional Committee of Astronautics meets Project 7 astronauts.
- 1959 - Monkeys Able and Baker zoom 300 miles (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became first animals retrieved from a space mission.
- 1962 - Lawsuit alleging de facto school segregation filed in Rochester, New York.
- 1962 - US stock market drops US$20.8 billion in one day.
- 1964 - Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn rocket test launched into Earth orbit.
- 1966 - The "It's a Small World" attraction opens in Fantasyland at Disneyland.
- 1968 - Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democratic primary in Oregon.
- 1972 - White House "plumbers" break into Democratic National headquarters at Watergate.
- 1974 - In Hollywood, California, the 26th Annual Emmy Awards (primetime programming) are presented, hosted by Johnny Carson.
- Best Lead Actor in a Drama: Hal Holbrook for Pueblo
- Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series: Telly Savalas for Kojak
- Actor of the Year - Special: Hal Holbrook for Pueblo
- Actor of the Year - Series: Alan Alda for M*A*S*H
- Best Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: Alan Alda for M*A*S*H
- Best Lead Actor in a Limited Series: William Holden for The Blue Knight
- Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series: Michael Learned for The Waltons
- Best Lead Actress in a Drama: Cicely Tyson for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- Best Lead Actress in a Limited Series: Mildred Natwick for The Snoop Sisters
- Actress of the Year - Special: Cicely Tyson for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- Actress of the Year - Series: Mary Tyler Moore for Mary Tyler Moore
- Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series: Mary Tyler Moore for Mary Tyler Moore
- Best Supporting Actor in Comedy: Rob Reiner for All in the Family
- Best Supporting Actor in Drama: Michael Moriarty for The Glass Menagerie
- Supporting Actor of the Year: Michael Moriarty for The Glass Menagerie
- Best Supporting Actor in Comedy-Variety, Variety or Music: Harvey Korman for The Carol Burnett Show
- Supporting Actress of the Year: Joanna Miles for The Glass Menagerie
- Best Supporting Actress in Comedy-Variety, Variety or Music: Brenda Vaccaro for The Shape of Things
- Best Supporting Actress in Comedy: Cloris Leachman for episode "The Lars Affair" of Mary Tyler Moore
- Best Supporting Actress in Drama: Joanna Miles for The Glass Menagerie
- Best Directing in Comedy-Variety, Variety or Music: Dwight Hemion for Barbra Streisand... and Other Musical Instruments
- Outstanding Achievement in Technical Direction and Electronic Camerawork: Gerry Bucci, Ken Tamburri, Dave Hilmer, David Smith, Jim Balden, and Ron Brooks for In Concert Cat Stevens: Moon & Star
- Director of the Year - Special: Dwight Hemion for Barbra Streisand... and Other Musical Instruments
- Best Directing in Drama - A Single Program - Comedy or Drama: John Korty for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- Best Directing in Comedy: Jackie Cooper for episode Carry on, Hawkeye of M*A*S*H
- Best Directing in Variety or Music: Dave Powers for The Australia Show of The Carol Burnett Show
- Best Music Direction of a Variety, Music or Dramatic Program: Jack Parnell, Ken Welch, Mitzie Welch for Barbra Streisand... and Other Musical Instruments
- Director of the Year - Series: Robert Butler for The Blue Knight
- Best Directing in Drama - A Single Program of a Series with Continuing Characters and/or Theme: Robert Butler for The Blue Knight
- Best Writing in Drama - Original Teleplay: Fay Kanin for Tell Me Where It Hurts
- Best Writing in Comedy-Variety, Variety or Music: Herbert Sargent, Rosalyn Drexler, Lorne Michaels, Richard Pryor, Jim Rusk, James R. Stein, Bob Illes, Lily Tomlin, George Yanok, Jane Wagner, Rod Warren, Ann Elder, and Karyl Miller for Lily
- Best Writing in Drama - Adaptation: Tracy Keenan Wynn for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- Best Writing in Comedy: Treva Silverman for episode The Lou And Edie Story of Mary Tyler Moore
- Best Writing in Drama: Joanna Lee for episode The Thanksgiving Story of The Waltons
- Best Writing in Variety or Music: Ed Simmons, Gary Belkin, Roger Beatty, Arnie Kogen, Bill Richmond, Gene Perret, Rudy De Luca, Barry Levinson, Dick Clair, Jenna McMahon, and Barry Harman for The Carol Burnett Show
- Best Cinematography for Entertainment Programming - For a Series or a Single Program of a Series: Harry L. Wolf for Columbo: Any Old Port in a Storm
- Art Director and Set Decorator of the Year: Jan Scott, Charles Kreiner for The Lie
- Best Art Direction or Scenic Design - For a Dramatic Program or Feature Length Film, for a Series, a Single Program of a Series or a Special Program: Jan Scott and Charles Kreiner for The Lie
- Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design: Bruce Walkup and Sandra Stewart for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- Best Film Editing for Entertainment Programming - For a Series or a Single Program of a Series: Gene Fowler Junior, Marjorie Fowler, and Samuel E. Beetley for The Blue Knight
- Outstanding Achievement in Makeup: Stan Winston and Rick Baker for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- Best Song or Theme: Marty Paich and David Paich for the song "Light The Way" for episode "Once More For Joey" of Ironside
- Outstanding Music-Variety Series: The Carol Burnett Show
- Musician of the Year: Jack Parnell, Ken Welch, and Mitzie Welch for Barbra Streisand... and Other Musical Instruments
- Best Music Composition - For a Series, a Single Program of a Series: Morton Stevens for episode "Hookman" of Hawaii Five-O
- Best Music Composition - For a Special Program: Fred Karlin for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- Outstanding Drama Series: Upstairs, Downstairs
- Outstanding Limited Series: Columbo: Lovely But Lethal, and Columbo: Any Old Port in a Storm, and Columbo: Candidate for Crime, and Columbo: Double Exposure, and Columbo: Publish or Perish, and Columbo: Mind Over Mayhem, and Columbo: Swan Song
- Outstanding Special - Comedy or Drama: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- Special Classification of Outstanding Program and Individual Achievement: John Gilroy and Dick Cavett for The Dick Cavett Show and Tom Snyder for The Tomorrow Show
- Film Editor of the Year: Frank Morriss for The Execution of Private Slovik
- Outstanding Comedy Series: M*A*S*H
- Outstanding Individual Achievement in Children's Programming: Bill Zaharuk, Peter Razmofsky for The Borrowers and Charles M. Schulz for A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
- Writer of the Year - Special: Fay Kanin for Tell Me Where It Hurts
- Outstanding Children's Special: Marlo Thomas, Carole Hart for Free to Be... You & Me
- Writer of the Year - Series: Treva Silverman for episode "The Lou And Edie Story" of Mary Tyler Moore
- Outstanding Achievement in Sports Programming: Roone Arledge, Dennis Lewin for ABC's Wide World of Sports
- Best Film Editing for Entertainment Programming - For a Special or Feature Length Program Made for Television: Frank Morriss for The Execution of Private Slovik
- 1974 - Massachusetts State Lottery begins selling first instant game lottery tickets (latex-covered scratch-off area).
- 1974 - Stephen Schwartz' musical Magic Show premieres at the Cort Theater in New York City for 1859 performances.
- 1977 - A fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky, USA, kills 164 people and injures 130 others.
- 1987 - 60th US National Spelling Bee: Stephanie Petit wins spelling "staphylococci".
- 1987 - Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot.
- 1990 - Superior Galleries conducts the Boys Town Sale coin auction in Beverly Hills California. The King of Siam Proof Set (with 1804 silver dollar) sells for $3.19 million, highest price paid for a single auction lot in numismatic history. Total sale is $21.5 million, highest grossing one-part numismatic auction to date.
- 1992 - 65th National Spelling Bee: Amanda Goad wins spelling "lyceum".
- 1998 - Death of Phil Hartman at age 49, shot dead by his wife (who then kills herself) in Encino, California, USA; actor/comedian (Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, NewsRadio).
Births on May 28
- 1818 - Birth of Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard in St-Bernard, Louisiana, USA; Confederate General (Hero of Sumter).
- 1838 - Birth of Basil Wilson in Duke, Kentucky, USA; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1916).
- 1887 - Birth of Hank Mann in New York City, New York, USA; actor (City Lights, Smoky, Dawn Trail, Fugitive Road).
- 1888 - Birth of James Francis Thorpe AKA Jim Thorpe AKA Wa-Tho-Huk (Bright Path) in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA; decathlete (Olympics-gold-1912) (dies 1953).
- 1892 - Birth of Minna Gombell in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; actress (Bad Girl, Thin Man, Hello Sister).
- 1894 - Birth of Sammy White in Rhode Island, USA; actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off).
- 1910 - Birth of Aaron Thibeaux Walker in Linden, Texas, USA; blues guitarman ("Call It Stormy Monday" (1943), "Funky Town", "Well Done").
- 1915 - Birth of Scott McKay in Pleasantville, Iowa, USA; actor (Stage Door).
- 1916 - Birth of Walker Percy in Birmingham, Alabama, USA; author (Adventures of a Bad Catholic).
- 1917 - Birth of Barry Commoner in Brooklyn, New York, USA; biologist (Science and Survival).
- 1917 - Birth of Marshall Reed in Englewood, California, USA; actor (Fred Asher - Lineup).
- 1925 - Birth of Martha Vickers in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; actress (Alimony, Man I Love, Ruthless).
- 1931 - Birth of Carroll Baker in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA; American actress (Andy Warhol's Bad, Babydoll, Harlow, LA Law, Grand).
- 1933 - Birth of John Karlen in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (Harvey Lacey - Cagney and Lacey, Dark Shadows).
- 1938 - Birth of Jerry West in Cabin Creek, West Virginia, USA; NBA superstar (Los Angeles Lakers, Olympics-gold-1960).
- 1941 - Birth of Beth Howland in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; actress (Vera - Alice, Company).
- 1944 - Birth of Gary Stewart in Latcher County, Kentucky, USA; country singer ("She's Actin' Single").
- 1944 - Birth of Gladys Knight in Atlanta, Georgia, USA; singer, leader of the Pips ("Last Train to Georgia").
- 1944 - Birth of Rudy Giuliani; American politician (Mayor-Republican/Liberal New York City, 1994-).
- 1945 - Birth of John Fogerty in Berkeley, California, USA rock vocals (Creedence Clearwater Revival).
- 1946 - Birth of Madeleine Le Roux in Wyoming, USA; Broadway actress (Cry Uncle).
- 1947 - Birth of Beth Howland in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; actress (Vera - Alice).
- 1947 - Birth of Sondra Locke in Shelbyville, Tennessee, USA; actress (Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Rosie: The Rosemary Clooeney Story).
- 1949 - Birth of Shelley Hamlin in San Mateo, California, USA; LPGA golfer (1978 Patty Berg Classic).
- 1949 - Birth of Wendy O[rleans] Williams in Rochester, New York, USA; punk rocker (Plasmatics).
- 1957 - Birth of Kirk Gibson in Michigan, USA; outfield (Detroit Tigers, Brooklyn Dodgers, 1988 National League Most Valuable Player).
- 1957 - Birth of Walter R Tucker; American politician (Representative-Democrat-California).
- 1965 - Birth of Chantal Bailey in Champaign, Illinois, USA; speed skater (Olympics-1994).
- 1965 - Birth of Christa Miller in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Kate - The Drew Carey Show).
- 1965 - Birth of Michael Charles Brisky in Brownsville, Texas, USA; PGA golfer (1995 Buick-second).
- 1967 - Birth of Kari Wuhrer in Brookfield, Connecticut, USA; actress (Remote Control, Beverly Hills 90210, Out Of Sync).
- 1968 - Birth of Sandra Bacher in Long Island, New York, USA; half-heavyweight judoka (Olympics-1992, 1996).
- 1968 - Birth of Tomas P Pukstys in Chicago, Illinois, USA; javelin thrower (Olympics-1996).
- 1969 - Birth of Damian Rhodes in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA; NHL goalie (Ottawa Senators).
- 1969 - Birth of Frank McCormack in Leicester, Massachusetts, USA; cyclist (Olympics-1996).
- 1970 - Birth of David Roberts in Alameda, California, USA; hockey forward (Olympics-1994).
- 1971 - Birth of Jeff Gove in Seattle, Washington, USA; Nike golfer (1991 Ralphs Senior Classic).
- 1971 - Birth of Nick Bravin in New York City, New York, USA; fencer-foil (Olympics-1996).
- 1972 - Birth of Cheryl Demkowski in Syracuse, New York, USA; dance skater (and Gregory Maddalone).
- 1973 - Birth of Todd Sweeris in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA; table tennis player (Olympics-1996).
- 1975 - Birth of Caresa Winters; Miss South Dakota USA (1996).
- 1975 - Birth of Mike Fisher in Naperville, Illinois; soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-1996).
- 1977 - Birth of Ashley Ryan Ruiz Offord in Miami, Florida, singer (Menudo - "Cannonball").
- 1980 - Birth of Cheri Wheeler; Miss Georgia Teen USA (1997).
Deaths on May 28
- 1863 - Edmund Kirby Junior, USA-Brigadier-General, dies of injuries at age 23.
- 1864 - Henry H Giesy, USA-Brigadier-General, dies in battle.
- 1898 - Edward Bellamy, US author (Looking Backward), dies.
- 1946 - Death of Carter Glass, Virginia member of Congress, co-author of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
- 1973 - Jacques Lipchitz, Polish/French/US art critic sculptor, dies at age 81.
- 1998 - Death of Phil Hartman at age 49, shot dead by his wife (who then kills herself) in Encino, California, USA; actor/comedian (Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, NewsRadio).
- 2010 - Death of Gary Coleman, American actor (Arnold Jackson - Diff'rent Strokes 1978-85) at age 42 in Utah of a brain hemorrhage after a fall.
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