Daily Calendar for May 28th, 2021

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1660s

• 1664: French West India Company secured royal grant of all French colonies in America

1770s

• Born 1779: Thomas Moore (poet)

1840s

• Died 1843: Noah Webster (writer)

1870s

• 1870: First stamp auction in the U.S.

1890s

• 1892: The Sierra Club, dedicated to the conservation of natural resources, was founded

1900s

• Born 1908: Ian Fleming (writer)

1910s

• 1915: Patent application for John B. Gruelle's Raggedy Ann doll filed

• 1919: R.H. Macy & Co. was incorporated

1920s

• 1929: On With the Show, the first all-color talking picture, premiered in New York City

1930s

• Born 1930: Frank Drake (American astronomer)

• 1937: Golden Gate Bridge opened to vehicles

1940s

• Born 1944: Rudy Giuliani (politician)

• Born 1944: Gladys Knight (singer)

• Born 1945: Hunter "Patch" Adams (doctor)

1960s

• Born 1964: Christa Miller (actress)

• 1966: When a Man Loves a Woman by Percy Sledge topped charts

• Born 1968: Kylie Minogue (singer)

1970s

• 1971: Mars 3 orbiter and lander was launched50 Years Ago

• Born 1977: Elisabeth Hasselbeck (The View co-host)

• Born 1979: Jesse Bradford (actor)

1980s

• 1984: An unidentified soldier killed during the Vietnam War was buried with military honors in the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington, Virginia. (He was later identified via DNA testing, and exhumed.)

• 1985: The cover of Vanity Fair featured a photo of President Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan kissing

• Born 1986: Michael Oher (football player)

1990s

• Died 1998: Phil Hartman (actor)

• 1998: Hubble Space Telescope photographed unknown object TMR-1C

• Born 1999: Cameron Boyce (actor)

2000s

• Died 2002: Mildred Wirt Benson (original author, under the pen name Carolyn Keene, of the Nancy Drew mystery books)

• 2004: "Baby Jessica" McClure, who held the attention of the nation when she fell into an abandoned well at 18 months old, graduated from Greenwood High School in Texas

• 2008: In Germany, several people reported seeing what seemed to be UFOs. A police investigation found that it was a 29-year old man proposing to his girlfriend accompanied by glowing paper lanterns

2010s

• Died 2014: Maya Angelou (poet)