This was nearly completed May 23, 1901 with a promise of lights by June 10, but the first light did not go on until September 28.

A Yank writing from Vicksburg, May 28, 1863, stated: `` not less than 50 balls have passed over me since I commenced writing.

On April 28 he moved to Los Angeles where he had family and remained there until May when, suspected by local Union authorities, he evaded arrest and joined the Los Angeles Mounted Rifles as a private, leaving Warner's Ranch May 27.

Armenia became independent from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic on 28 May 1918 as the Democratic Republic of Armenia ( DRA ).

On May 28, 585 BC, during the Battle of Halys fought against Cyaxares, king of Media, a solar eclipse took place ( see also Thales ); hostilities were suspended, peace concluded, and the Halys fixed as the boundary between the two kingdoms.

Afonso IV (; 8 February 1291 – 28 May 1357 ), called the Brave (), was King of Portugal and the Algarve from 1325 until his death.

* Alfonso XIII ( 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941 ).

Alfonso XIII ( Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Austria-Lorena ; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941 ) was King of Spain from 1886 until 1931.

He was still alive when one of his daughters, Elisabeth, who had died some years before, was canonized on 28 May 1235.

Anne Brontë (; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849 ) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.

An airport security guard and Imam, Abdulaziz al-Omari (,, also transliterated as Alomari or al-Umari ) ( May 28, 1979 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11 as part of the September 11 attacks.

He has used birth dates of December 24, 1972 and May 28, 1979.

James Avery Hopwood ( May 28, 1882-July 1, 1928 ), was the most successful playwright of the Jazz Age, having four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in 1920.

‘ Abdu ’ l-Bahá (‎; 23 May 1844 – 28 November 1921 ), born ‘ Abbás Effendí, was the eldest son of Bahá ' u ' lláh, the founder of the Bahá ' í Faith.

On May 28, Nami arrived in the United States from Dubai with fellow-hijackers Mohand al-Shehri and Hamza al-Ghamdi.

Albert Frederick (, ; 7 May 1553 Königsberg – 28 August 1618 Fischhausen ) was duke of Prussia from 1568 until his death.

The main weapons of assassination chosen organised the successful assassination of King Alexander I of Serbia and his consort Draga ; he confirmed that Captain Dragutin Dimitrijevic, who had personally led the group of Army officers who killed the royal couple in the Old Palace at Belgrade on the night of 28 / 29 May 1903 ( Old Style ), was also the Black Hand's leader.

On 26 May, the Blue Angels announced they would not be flying their traditional fly-over of the Naval Academy Graduation Ceremony and that they were canceling their 28 – 29 May 2011 performances at the Millville Wings and Wheels Airshow in Millville, New Jersey.

On May 28, 2002, the United States Food and Drug Administration instituted a policy that excludes from donation anyone who spent at least six months in certain European countries, ( or three months in the United Kingdom ), from 1980 to 1996.

It was formed by people who left Cornwall's main nationalist party Mebyon Kernow on 28 May 1975.

* The Consulate of Argos ( from 26 May 1821, under the Senate of the Peloponnese ) had a single head of state, styled consul, 28 March 1821 – 26 May 1821: Stamatellos Antonopoulos

* William Theodore Heard ( 28 April 1969 – 18 May 1970 )

Joris Ivens ( 18 November 1898, Nijmegen – 28 June 1989, Paris ) was a Dutch documentary filmmaker and committed communist.

* Frere, Walter H. ( 1898 ) " Lancelot Andrewes as a Representative of Anglican Principles: A Lecture Delivered at Holy Trinity, Chelsea, February 28, 1897 " Church Historical Society, 44.

The first Protestant worship service was conducted on 28 August 1898 by an American military chaplain named Rev.

Created and developed in 1893 and introduced as " Brad's Drink ", it was later renamed as Pepsi-Cola on August 28, 1898, then to Pepsi in 1961.

* A half-page strip which eventually adopted the title Ryan ’ s Arcade ( 28 September 1897 – 23 January 1898 ).

William Seward Burroughs I ( January 28, 1857 – September 14, 1898 ) was an American inventor born in Rochester, New York.

* July 28 – Bess Flowers, American actress ( b. 1898 )

* June 28 – Bobby Vernon, American actor ( b. 1898 )

* March 28 – Richard Arlen, American actor ( b. 1898 )

* October 28 – Mitchell Leisen, American film director ( b. 1898 )

* February 28 – Henry Luce, American publisher ( b. 1898 )

* March 28 – Emmett Kelly, American clown ( b. 1898 )

* June 28 – Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker ( b. 1898 )

* January 28 – William Seward Burroughs, American bank clerk and inventor ( d. 1898 )

After proposing in 1893, he married Sara White on December 28, 1898.

Thomas Francis Bayard ( October 29, 1828 – September 28, 1898 ) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware.

* 14 December 1895 – 28 May 1898: His Highness Prince Albert of York

* HH HIH Princess Rukiye Sabiha Sultan Hanım Efendi ( the Ortaköy Palace, Ortaköy, Istanbul, 19 March / 1 April 1894 – Istanbul, 26 August 1971 ), married to her cousin HIH Prince Şehzade Ömer Faruk Efendi ( the Ortaköy Palace, Istanbul, 27 / 29 February 1898 – 28 March 1969 / 1971 ), son of Abdülmecid II, at the Yıldız Palace, Istanbul, on 29 April 1920 as his first wife.

Edmond Rostand, aged 29, at the time of the first performance of Cyrano, 1898 The production of his heroic comedy of Cyrano de Bergerac ( 28 December 1897, Theatre de la Porte Saint-Martin ), with Benoît-Constant Coquelin in the title-role, was a triumph.

The town was incorporated as a city in 1898 with a population of 28, 000.

He was born Lucien Ginsburg in Paris, France, the son of Russian Jewish emigrants, Joseph Ginsburg ( 28 December 1898, Kharkov ( Ukraine ) – 22 April 1971 ) and Olga Bessman ( 1894 – 16 March 1985 ), who fled to Paris after the 1917 Russian Revolution.

* 28 March 1898: George Byng, 3rd Earl of Strafford died childless aged 68 and was succeeded by his brother Henry Byng, 4th Earl of Strafford.

An election was held on December 14, 1898, and out of the 28 ballots cast, only one was opposed to idea of municipal government.

Gulfport was incorporated on July 28, 1898.