May 28<\/p>\n
585 BC \u2013 A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of Halys, in modern Turkey, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.<\/p>\n
722 \u2013 Around 10 years after the moslem invasion and near total conquest of what is now Spain, the inhabitants of the small town of Covadonga led by Pelayo, rout and defeat the moslem forces sent against them. This is considered the first step in the near 800 year long Reconquista<\/em> of the Iberian peninsula.<\/p>\n 1588 \u2013 The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, heading for the English Channel.<\/p>\n 1754 \u2013\u00a0 In the first engagement of the French and Indian War, Virginia militia under Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n 1830 \u2013 President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which\u00a0 forcibly relocates them to Indian Territory – now Oklahoma.<\/p>\n 1892 \u2013 In San Francisco, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.<\/p>\n 1937 \u2013 Volkswagen is founded by the German Labor Front under the Nazi Party<\/p>\n 1940 \u2013 Belgium surrenders to Nazi Germany to end the Battle of Belgium during World War II.<\/p>\n 1977 \u2013 In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.<\/p>\n 1987 \u2013 18 year old West German pilot, Mathias Rust, evades Soviet Union air defense and lands a private plane in Red Square, Moscow.<\/p>\n 1996 \u2013 President Clinton’s former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.<\/p>\n 1999 \u2013 After 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece The Last Supper<\/em> is put back on display in Milan, Italy<\/p>\n 2002 \u2013 The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.<\/p>\n 2016 \u2013 Harambe, a gorilla, is shot to death after grabbing a 3 year old boy in his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden.<\/p>\n 2017 \u2013 Formula One driver Takuma Sato becomes the first Japanese and Asian driver to wins the Indianapolis 500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 28 585 BC \u2013 A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of Halys, in modern Turkey, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated. 722 \u2013 Around 10 years after the moslem … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55300"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93220,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55300\/revisions\/93220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}