Today is Tuesday and the date is May 28, 2024 Here we tell you today’s history.
Today’s history:
Able, a rhesus monkey, and Baker, a squirrel monkey, were both able to survive a suborbital flight that was carried out by the United States Army in 1959. Both primates were launched aboard a Jupiter missile.
The Dion quintuplets (Annette, Cécile, Emily, Marie, and Yvonne) were born on May 28, 1934, to Elzire Dion on the family farm in Ontario, Canada.
In 1863, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, composed of free black men, left Boston to fight in the Civil War for the Union.
The Sierra Club was founded on May 28, 1892, in San Francisco.
In 2021, officials announced that the remains of more than 200 children, some as young as 3 years old, had been found at what was then Canada’s largest Indigenous residential school.
In 1918, during World War I, American troops attacked the German-occupied French village of Cantigny and conquered the American village.
Neville Chamberlain became the British prime minister in 1937.
For the purpose of marrying Wallis Warfield Simpson, Edward, Duke of Windsor, who had previously abdicated the English throne, passed away in Paris in 1972 at the age of 77.
German invaders captured the Belgian army in 1940 during World War II.
On this day in 1964, the Palestine National Congress met in Jerusalem, and in that meeting, the charter of the Palestine Liberation Organization was issued.
On the same day, 165 people were killed in a fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club. This incident happened in 1977
In 1998, in Encino, California, famous comedian Phil Hartman, who had worked on Saturday Night Live and Newsradio, was shot and killed by his wife, Brian, who later killed himself.
The fourth season of the critically acclaimed HBO show “Succession” ends in 2023.
In 2013, federal prosecutors charged seven men with allegations that they ran an online, underworld bank that they said managed $6 billion for drug dealers, child pornographers, identity thieves and others who may have defrauded Americans. It was the largest money-laundering scheme in history.
In 2020, amid widespread protests over the death of George Floyd, a Minneapolis police station was set on fire.