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* May 28 – Indianapolis 500: Al Unser wins his third race, and the first for car owner Jim Hall.
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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 )
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On May 9 – 10, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur.
E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.
* 1453 – Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople ( Istanbul ), which falls on May 29.
30 # 2 ( May, 1998 ), pp. 341 – 372 in JSTOR
:: L. Marcus Annius Verus Caesar ( after May 162 – 10 September 169 ), died young without issue
Alcuin of York () or Ealhwine, nicknamed Albinus or Flaccus ( 730s or 740s – 19 May 804 ) was an English scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher from York, Northumbria.
Albert of Prussia (; ) ( 17 May 1490 – 20 March 1568 ) was the 37th and last sovereign Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and, after converting to Lutheranism, the first duke of the Duchy of Prussia, which was the first state to adopt the Lutheran faith and Protestantism as the official state religion.
Arthur Aikin FGS ( 19 May 1773 – 15 April 1854 ) was an English chemist, mineralogist and scientific writer.
Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori ( 31 May 1535 – 22 September 1607 ) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school.
o Bolonhês ), King of Portugal ( 5 May 1210 in Coimbra – 16 February 1279 in Alcobaça, Coimbra or Lisbon ) was the first to use the title King of Portugal and the Algarve, from 1249.
1929 portrait of King Alfonso XIIIOn 31 May 1906, at the Royal Monastery of San Geronimo in Madrid, Alfonso married Scottish-born Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg ( 1887 – 1969 ), a niece of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
By Béatrice Noon he had Juana Alfonsa Milán y Quiñones de León ( 19 April 1916 – 16 May 2005 )
* King Béla IV of Hungary ( 1206 – 3 May 1270 )
14 May 1234: Beatrice D ' Este ( c. 1215 – before 8 May 1245 ), daughter of Aldobrandino I D ' Este and his wife
He was saved by the new sulphonamide drug, Sulphapyridine, known at the time under the research code M & B 693, discovered and produced by May & Baker Ltd, Dagenham, Essex – a subsidiary of the French group Rhône-Poulenc.
As of May 2004, 30 % of people in the ACT aged 15 – 64 had a level of educational attainment equal to at least an bachelor's degree, significantly higher than the national average of 19 %.
Andrea Alciato ( May 8, 1492 – January 12, 1550 ), commonly known as Alciati ( Andreas Alciatus ), was an Italian jurist and writer.
Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss was overall commandant of the Auschwitz complex from May 1940 – November 1943 ; Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 – May 1944 ; and Sturmbannführer Richard Baer from May 1944 – January 1945.
May and Indianapolis
the world-renowned 500-mile auto race at Indianapolis, Indiana, plus a festival from May 27-30 ; ;
A 1935 Rolls-Royce Moxie Horsemobile was sold for $ 55, 000 at the May 20, 2011, Mecum Auction in Indianapolis, Indiana.
* May 29 – Indianapolis 500: A. J. Foyt becomes the first driver to win the race four times.
* May 25 – Indianapolis 500: Johnny Rutherford wins for a third time in car owner Jim Hall's revolutionary ground effect Chaparral car ; the victory is Hall's second as an owner.
* May 30 – Indianapolis 500-Mile Race: Johnny Rutherford wins the ( rain-shortened ) shortest race in event history to date, at 102 laps or 255 miles ( 408 km ).
* May 2 – The first game of Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.
* May 31 – Racing driver Jim Clark wins the Indianapolis 500, and later wins the Formula One world driving championship in the same year.
* May 25 – Indianapolis 500: Bobby Unser wins for a second time in a rain-shorted 174 lap, 435 mile ( 696 km ) race.
* May 27 – Indianapolis 500: Rick Mears wins the race for the first time, and car owner Roger Penske for the second time.
In May 1913, Goux took one to Indianapolis, and won at an average of, recording straightaway speeds of.
In 1912 he began promoting his dream of a transcontinental highway, and at a September 10 dinner meeting with industry friends in Indianapolis, he called for a coast-to-coast rock highway to be completed by May 1, 1915, in time for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.
Luyendyk at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in May 2010.
Officials from the Hoosier Millennium committee at the 500 Festival Parade in downtown Indianapolis reviewed the forty-two submissions on May 27, 2000 and selected town resident, Randy Potts, submission.
* On May 27, 2004, Naomi Betts, a criminal who robbed a bank in Indianapolis, was arrested in Sikeston, following an airing of an episode of America's Most Wanted.
The album was released on April 29, 1997 and the band held a release show party at Missing Link Records in Indianapolis on May 2.
The Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, also known as the Indianapolis 500, the 500 Miles at Indianapolis, the Indy 500 or The 500, is held annually over the Memorial Day weekend, the last full weekend in May, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana.
** 25 May – Bobby Unser wins the 59th running of the Indianapolis 500 in an Eagle-Offenhauser
** 26 May – Johnny Rutherford wins the 58th running of the Indianapolis 500 in the Bowes Seal Fast Special McLaren M16-Offenhauser
** 28 & 30 May – Gordon Johncock wins the 57th running of the Indianapolis 500 in the STP Double Oil Filter Eagle-Offenhauser
** 30 May – Mark Donohue wins the 56th running of the Indianapolis 500 in the Sunoco Special McLaren-Offenhauser
** 29 May – Al Unser, Sr. wins the 55th running of the Indianapolis 500 in the Johnny Lightning Special Colt-Ford.
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