05-28-2006, 07:45 AM
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May 28th
1892 ~ In San Francisco, California, John Muir organized the Sierra Club.
1908 ~ Birthday of Ian Fleming, author of James Bond books.
1925 ~ Birthday of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone.
1934 ~ Birthday of The Dionne quintuplets, the world's first surviving quintuplets.
1936 ~ Alan Turing submitted On Computable Numbers for publication.
1964 ~ The Palestine Liberation Organization was formed.
1971 ~ Death of Audie Murphy, American actor & war hero.
1984 ~ President Reagan led a state funeral at Arlington National Cemetery for an unidentified American soldier killed in the Vietnam War.
1987 ~ Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses.
1998 ~ Pakistan matched India with five nuclear test blasts.
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