Historical Events In May - 28

1987 Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot

1987 Paul Pearman jumps 21 barrels on a skateboard in Augusta

1987 Stacking of Discovery's SRBs completed

1988 Genie Francis (General Hospital) weds Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek TNG)

1989 Delta Burke (Designing Women) weds Gerald McRaney (Major Dad)

1990 César Gaviria Trujillo installed as President of Colombia

1990 Dave Thomas Comedy Show, debuts on CBS-TV

1990 Eugenia Charles' Dom'n Freedom Party wins election in Dominica

1990 Longest wheelie (David Robilliard with 5 hours 12 minutes 33 seconds (Channel Islands)

1991 Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa

1992 65th National Spelling Bee Amanda Goad wins spelling lyceum

1993 200,000 demonstrate against mafia terror

1993 Polish Government of Suchocka falls

1994 "Cafe American" last airs on NBC-TV

1995 An earthquake hits the Russian town of Khabarovsk, killing 2,000 people

1995 Earthquake hits Russian town of Khabarovsk, killing 2,000 people

1995 Southwestern Florida outside of Tampa begins using new area code 941

1997 Bob Dylan hospitalized in England with histoplasmosis

1997 Linda Finch completes Amelia Earhart attempted around-the-world flight

1997 Tornado in Jarrell TX kills at least 28

1997 Wallace Berg, 42, is 4th American to scale Mount Everest for 3rd time

1998 Phil Hartman actor/comedian (NewsRadio, Saturday Night Live), shot to death while asleep in his bed by his wife at 49

1998 Phil Hartman, comedian and actor, dies at age 49

1906 The Tsar of Russia makes large areas of land available to the peasants

1915 Women in Berlin demonstrate for peace

1940 Holland and Belgium surrender to German forces, during WW2

1961 Last ever Orient Express from Paris to Bucharest

1660 The birth of George I, British King

1908 The birth of Ian Fleming, British writer2006 President Alvaro Uribe Velez is re-elected in Colombia for a second term. He becomes the first president in over a century to serve consecutive terms.

2007 Riyo Mori was crowned the new Miss Universe 2007 in Mexico City.

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