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1892 - Comedienne Marie Dressler made her New York City singing debut in the comic opera, Waldemar, The Robber of the Rhine.1928 - Walter P. Chrysler worked out a deal that made automotive history and took him from rags to riches. He merged his Chrysler Corporation with Dodge Brothers, Inc. The Dodge Motor Car Company had been purchased several years earlier, from the widows of the two founders, by Clarence Dillon's banking firm for $148 million. The merger of Chrysler and Dodge, the largest automobile industry merger in history at the time, placed the newly consolidated firm third in production and sales, just behind General Motors and Ford Motor Company.
1929 - Warner Brothers debuted the first all-color talking picture. The film debuted at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City. Ethel Waters, Joe E. Brown and Arthur Lake starred in On with the Show.
1931 - WOR radio in New York City premiered The Witch’s Tale. The program was broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System (of which WOR was the flagship station) where it aired until 1938.
1934 - The Dionne quintuplets were born near Callender, Ontario to Oliva and Elzire Dionne. They were the first quints (that’s five babies, for those who may have forgotten) to survive infancy. This increase in Canada’s population became known as Marie, Cecile, Yvonne, Emilie and Annette.
1937 - Neville Chamberlain became prime minister of Great Britain. The following year Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact, handing portions of Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler’s Germany. Chamberlain declared that he had secured “peace for our time.” But, as we all know now, that did not exactly work out.
1941 - Frank Sinatra joined Tommy Dorsey’s orchestra in recording This Love of Mine for Victor Records.
1953 - The first 3-D (three-dimensional) cartoon premiered at the Paramount Theatre in Hollywood, California. The production, a Walt Disney creation/RKO picture, was titled, Melody.
1957 - National League club owners voted to allow the Brooklyn Dodgers to move to sunny Southern California and said that the New York Giants baseball team could move with the Horace Stoneham family to Northern California. The teams went on to establish themselves in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
1957 - The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) was established. This is the organization that brings us the Grammy Awards for all forms of musical entertainment each year.
1959 - Able and Baker were two monkeys who survived a trip into space from a launch at Cape Canaveral, FL.
1961 - Amnesty International was founded. It won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977.
1966 - Percy Sledge hit number one with his first -- and what turned out to be his biggest -- hit. When a Man Loves a Woman would stay at the top of the pop music charts for two weeks. It was the singer’s only hit to make the top ten and was a million seller.
1967 - Sir Francis Chichester, British adventurer and magazine publisher, completed his 28,500-mile, solo voyage around the world. The trip had begun on Aug 27, 1966.
1971 - The U.S.S.R.’s Mars 3 was launched. It was the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the planet Mars.
1974 - The Magic Show opened on Broadway at the Cort Theatre. The one-act musical starred -- you guessed it -- magician Doug Henning and and ran for 1,920 performances, closing on December 31, 1978. Henning was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical and director Grover Dale was nominated for the Tony for Best Direction of a Musical.
1975 - The Doobie Brothers went gold with the album, Stampede. The group, formed in San Jose, CA, recorded 16 charted hits. Two made it to number one, becoming million-selling, gold record winners: Black Water [March, 1975] and What a Fool Believes [April, 1979].
1977 - 165 people were killed when fire raced through the popular Beverly Hills Supper Club in the Cincinnati suburb of Southgate, Kentucky. To blame for the tragedy: aluminum wiring that overheated causing the fire; no emergency sprinkler system; inadequate exits and improper construction materials; smoke and a mixture of gases that killed many who were not hurt by the fire.
1982 - The legendary train, Orient Express, made popular through Agatha Christie’s thrilling mystery novel, Murder on the Orient Express, was reborn as Venice-Simplon Orient Express. The 26-hour train trip resumed across the European continent after a long absence.
1985 - Gay Mullins, a retiree from Seattle, WA, founded Old Cola Drinkers of America. This was an effort to bring back the original Coca-Cola, instead of the New Coke that the Atlanta-based company had foisted on the American cola-drinking market. By July of 1985, with arms firmly twisted behind their backs, Coca-Cola Company executives relented and returned the old formula to colaholics and with a new name: Classic Coke.
1985 - Vanity Fair magazine, with a picture of President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy on the cover, went on sale.
1987 - A 19-year-old West German, Mathias Rust, flew a borrowed Cessna from Helsinki to Moscow, passing through Soviet airspace unchallenged and eventually landing in Red Square. The stunt earned Rust a four-year prison term from a Soviet court (he was freed after 14 months).
1989 - Emerson Fittipaldi of Brazil won the Indianapolis 500 auto race.
1991 - Ethiopian rebels seized control of the capital of Addis Ababa, a week after the country’s longtime Marxist ruler, Mengistu Haile Mariam, resigned his post and fled. May 28 is now celebrated as a national holiday in Ethiopia.
1996 - Jazz pianist and composer Jimmy Rowles died. Rowles recorded with Benny Goodman, Les Brown and Tommy Dorsey, Stan Getz and Ella Fitzgerald. He was in demand as a studio musician for years, but was probably best known for his playing behind Billie Holiday and Peggy Lee. His composition of "The Peacocks" became a standard, and Rowles recorded for many labels throughout his career including with his daughter, flügelhornist Stacy Rowles.
1996 - American writer Eugenia Price died just three weeks before her 80th birthday. Price wrote historical novels for women and her books were translated into 18 languages. Her Beauty for Ashes made the New York Times Best Seller List in 1995.
1997 - U.S. President Bill Clinton paid tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan with a speech in the Netherlands.
1998 - Astronomer Susan Terebey, of the Extrasolar Research Corp. of Pasadena, announced she had photographed a planet outside the solar system. The Hubble Space Telescope captured the image of the possible planet in the constellation Taurus, about 450 light-years from Earth. Terebey called TMR-1C “a candidate young planet.” She said Hubble’s finding suggests that giant planets comprised of gasses may be formed by binary stars.
1999 - The Thirteenth Floor debuted in the U.S., starring Craig Bierko, Gretchen Mol, Vincent D’onofrio, Dennis Haysbert, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Steve Schub.
1999 - MCI WorldCom agreed to buy SkyTel Communications (wireless messaging) for $1.3 billion.
2000 - Juan Montoya won the 84th Indianapolis 500, becoming the first rookie champion since Graham Hill in 1966.
2001 - U.S. President George Bush (II) signed legislation authorizing construction of a World War II Memorial on the National Mall (Washington DC).
2002 - Mildred Wirt Benson creator of the Nancy Drew children’s mystery stories, died in Toledo, Ohio. She was 96 years old.
2003 - Actress Martha Scott died in Southern California. She was 90 years old. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her superb performance in Our Town (1940), playing the same character (Emily Webb) as she played on the stage. Scott is also remembered for her role as Sister Beatrice in the camp disaster movie Airport 1975.
2004 - These movies opened in U.S. theatres: The Day After Tomorrow, starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ian Holm, Emmy Rossum and Sela Ward; Raising Helen, starring Kate Hudson, John Corbett, Joan Cusack, Hayden Panettiere, Spencer Breslin, Abigail Breslin and Helen Mirren; and Soul Plane, starring Kevin Hart, Method Man, Tom Arnold, Snoop Dogg, K.D. Aubert, MoNique, Missi Pyle, John Witherspoon, Loni Love, Ryan Pinkston, Angell Conwell, D.L. Hughley, Godfrey C. Danchimah, Sommore, Gary Anthony Williams, Brian Hooks, Arielle Kebbel and Sofia Vergara.
2004 - The Tokyo High Court sentenced doomsday cult member Yoshihiro Inoue to death for the 1995 sarin (nerve) gas attack on Tokyo’s subways.
2005 - 40,000 Iraqi police and soldiers, backed by American troops and air support, began Operation Lightning against insurgents in Baghdad.
2006 - The BBC reported that some 1,000 troops had deserted from the armed forces since the U.S.-led war was launched in Iraq.
2006 - San Francisco Giant Barry Bonds hit his 715th home run, passing the Babe Ruth record of 714 and closing in on Hank Aaron’s record of 755.
2006 - The Wind That Shakes the Barley, directed by Ken Loach, won the Palme d’Or (Golden Palm) award at the 59th Cannes Film Festival in France. The film tells the story of the Irish rebellion in the 1920s.
2006 - Sam Hornish Jr. won the second-closest Indianapolis 500 auto race ever. Hornish was the first driver to overtake for the lead on the race’s final lap, winning the race in the last 450 feet by a 0.0635-second margin over rookie Marco Andretti.
2007 - Japan’s agriculture minister died after hanging himself just hours before he was to face questioning in a political scandal.
2008 - Lawmakers in Nepal voted to abolish its 240-year-old Hindu monarchy and establish a secular republic.
2008 - The first winners of the Kavli Prizes were announced in Oslo, Norway. Maarten Schmidt of the California Institute of Technology and Donald Lynden-Bell of Cambridge University in England won for astrophysics; Louis E. Brus of Columbia University and Sumio Iijima of Meijo University in Japan were selected for nanoscience; and Pasko Rakic of the Yale University School of Medicine, Thomas Jessell of Columbia University and Sten Grillner of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden were awarded the prize for neuroscience.
2009 - Israel defied a U.S. demand to freeze all building in West Bank Jewish settlements. Since 1967, Israel had built 121 West Bank settlements, home to some 300,000 Israelis.
2009 - Japanese researchers reported having added genes to monkeys that caused the animals to glow under a fluorescent light; the new genetic attributes can also pass to their offspring. The scientists hoped to use the technique in their fight against Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, and other diseases.
2010 - U.S. regulators closed three banks in Florida and one each in Nevada and California, bringing the number of U.S. bank failures in 2010 to 78.
2010 - Hawaii became the first U.S. state to ban the sale or possession of shark fins, used in the creation of some Chinese delicacies. The ban was part of an effort to help prevent overfishing of sharks.
2011 - Thousands turned out for Melbourne, Australia’s first SlutWalk, in support of women being able to wear whatever they like without fear of being sexually assaulted. SlutWalk began in Canada in April after a Toronto police official said that “women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized.”
2012 - The crippled law firm, Dewey & Leboeuf LLP, New York City, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and sought approval to liquidate its business. This, after failing to find a merger partner. It was the biggest collapse of a law firm in U.S. history. At the time of the bankruptcy filing, Dewey & Leboeuf employed over 1,000 lawyers in 26 offices around the world. At the time of its liquidation in early 2013, the firm still owed creditors some $550 million.
2013 - After TrackingPoint released its ‘smart rifle’, which allows a shooter to hit moving targets 500+ yards away, Yardarm introduced its Safety First technology on this day. Safety First lets a person remotely engage or disengage the trigger safety on their firearm.
2013 - Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s national railway operator, said it would be flying small drones along its tracks, bridges and stations to keep a watchful eye out for vandals.
2014 - The City Council of Irwindale, CA voted to drop a public nuisance lawsuit against Huy Fong Foods, the maker of Sriracha hot sauce. Residents had complained that the spicy odors burned their throats and eyes. But other suitors, including the state of Texas had offered a friendlier home for the company.
2015 - Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert was indicted on federal charges alleging he agreed to pay $3.5 million in hush money to a longtime acquaintance, then lied to the FBI when asked about suspicious cash withdrawals. The payments were made to conceal alleged sexual abuse of a young man when Hastert was a high school teacher in Illinois.
2015 - Chipmaker Avago Technologies bought wireless chipmaker Broadcom for $37 billion in cash and stock. If you think that sound like a lot of money, you are correct. It was the biggest tech deal to date.
2016 - The World Health Organization said there was “no public health justification” for postponing or canceling the Rio de Janeiro Olympics because of the Zika outbreak. But that outbreak may have prompted a drop in the number of live births in Rio de Janeiro in late 2016.
2017 - Cannes Film Festival in France awarded the Palme d’Or to Ruben Ostlund’s The Square. And Sofia Coppola became the second woman to win the best director award for her remake of The Beguiled, Don Siegel’s 1971 Civil War drama.
2018 - President Emmanuel Macron said France would present residence papers to Mamoudou Gassama, an illegal immigrant from Mali, who scaled the facade of a Paris apartment block to save a boy who was about to fall from a fourth-floor balcony.
2019 - Russia’s space sector was at the heart of a staggering embezzlement scheme that had dampened ambitions of recovering its Soviet-era greatness. “Billions (of rubles) are being stolen there, billions,” said Alexander Bastrykin, powerful head of Russia’s Investigative Committee -- Russia’s equivalent of the FBI.
2019 - Vincent Ramos of Richmond (Vancouver, BC), Canada was sentenced to nine years in U.S. prison in a federal court trial in San Diego. The 41-year-old Ramos had sold encrypted Blackberry smartphones to criminals worldwide, enabling them to sell drugs and even plan murders while avoiding the prying eyes of law enforcement. Ramos also had to forfeit $80 million in earnings.
2020 - The European Union extended for a year its sanctions against Syrian President Bashar Assad and other top political officials, military officers and business people over the regime’s continued persecution of civilians in the conflict-torn country. The sanctions -- which banned oil imports, certain investments, technology transfer that could aid the regime in repression and froze Syrian Central Bank assets inside the EU -- were first initiated in 2011.
2020 - COVID-19 news:
1)CVS Health Corp said it would open more COVID-19 testing sites at some of its pharmacy drive-thru locations, completing the last leg of the drugstore chain’s planned 1,000 sites across 30 states and Washington DC.
2)India’s top court ordered state authorities to provide free train rides and proper food and water to hundreds of thousands of migrant workers returning to their villages in the blazing heat after the pandemic threw them out of work. India reported another record single-day jump of 6,566 coronavirus cases, pushing up the total to 158,333 confirmed cases and 4,531 deaths.
3)Japan-based Nissan Motor Co. outlined a plan to become smaller, but more efficient after the coronavirus pandemic brought on its first annual loss in 11 years.
4)Zimbabwe manhunts began after more than a hundred people, some with the coronavirus, fled a coronavirus screening camp. Nearly all of Zimbabwe’s 75 new cases of the week came from centers that held people who had returned, sometimes involuntarily, from neighboring South Africa and Botswana.2021 - Movies released in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: Cruella, starring Emma Stone, Mark Strong and Emma Thompson; A Quiet Place: Part II, with Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds and Cillian Murphy; American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally, starring Al Pacino, Thomas Kretschmann and Meadow Williams; Endangered Species, with Rebecca Romijn, Philip Winchester and Isabel Bassett; Funhouse, starring Valter Skarsgård, Khamisa Wilsher and Gigi Saul Guerrero; and Port Authority, with Fionn Whitehead, Leyna Bloom and McCaul Lombardi.
2021 - The Alaska Supreme Court upheld the legality of a state law that forces young Alaskans to face trial as adults for misdemeanor drunken-driving crimes.
2021 - The Swiss government blamed the state intelligence leadership for concealing that Swiss company Crypto AG had for decades sold encryption devices as a front for the U.S. and German spy agencies, insisting the cabinet itself had remained in the dark. It seems Crypto AG, based near Zug, sold supposedly secure communications systems while secretly owned by the Central Intelligence Agency and Germany’s BND intelligence service, which could freely read what was encrypted.
2021 - Discovery of a mass grave with the remains of 215 children from Kamloops Indian Residential School was announced by First Nation in British Columbia, Canada. The Kamloops Indian residential school was established in 1890 under the leadership of the Roman Catholic church, and closed in 1978. Kamloops was part of a cross-Canada network of residential schools created to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children by removing them from their homes and communities, and forbidding them from speaking their native languages or performing cultural practices. Physical, emotional and sexual abuse were rampant within these institutions, as was forced labor.
2022 - 31 people, mostly children, died in a stampede during a church giveaway event in Port Harcourt, southern Nigeria. Eyewitnesses said thousands of people gathered at the venue as early as 2:00 a.m. and were trying to force their way in -- resulting in the stampede.
2023 - India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the country’s new parliament building, amid a boycott by opposition parties (who wanted the President to open it).
2023 - A portion of the water in Italy’s Grand Canal in Venice was mysteriously turned a fluorescent green. The colored water encircled an embankment near the Rialto Bridge and appeared to spread throughout the day. Italy’s fire and rescue agency was working with local environmental authorities to identify the substance responsible with samples collected. City councilman Andrea Pegoraro blamed climate activists, who have been targeting cultural sites in Italy in recent months.
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Birthdays on This Day May 28
1779 - Thomas Moore
poet, lyricist: Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms, The Last Rose of Summer, Oft in the Stilly Night; died Feb 25, 18521888 - Jim Thorpe
Olympic gold medalist: decathlon, pentathlon, [Stockholm: 1912]; baseball: NY Giants, Boston Braves; football: All-American; president of what became the NFL; died Mar 28, 19531896 - Warren Giles
Baseball Hall of Fame manager: Cincinnati Reds [1937-1951: won two pennants]; president of the National League [(1951-1969)]; died Feb 7, 19791900 - Clarence ‘Taffy’ Abel
U.S. Hockey Hall of Famer: 1st American to carry the flag in opening Winter Olympics ceremonies; one of 1st U.S. born NHL players: NY Rangers; Chicago Black Hawks; died Aug 1, 19641908 - Ian Fleming
author: creator of Bond ... James Bond; died Aug 12, 19641910 - Aaron ‘T-Bone’ Walker
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame musician: guitar: pioneered the sound that helped create the blues; recorded such songs as T-Bone Blues and Stormy Monday; died Mar 16, 19751925 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
baritone opera singer; died May 18, 20121926 - Marvin Panch
auto racer: Daytona 500 winner [1961]; died Dec 31, 20151931 - Carroll Baker
actress The Carpetbaggers, Giant, Baby Doll, Harlow, Kindergarten Cop1931 - Irwin Winkler
Academy Award-winning producer: Rocky [1977]; Double Trouble, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, Raging Bull, The Right Stuff, Goodfellas, The Mechanic, Home of the Brave, Life as a House, The Net1936 - Betty Shabazz
civil rights leader; wife of Malcom X; died June 23, 19971938 - Jerry West
Basketball Hall of Famer: Olympic gold medalist [1960]; LA Lakers all-star guard: individual record for season free throws [840] and NBA playoff career free-throws [1,213]; Lakers coach & general manager1941 - Beth Howland
actress: Alice, Terrible Things My Mother Told Me, You Can’t Take It With You, Li’l Abner; died Dec 31, 20151944 - Rudolph Giuliani (Rudolph William Louis Giuliani III)
politician: Mayor of New York City [1994–2001]; personal lawyer/shill for POTUS Trump [2018-2021]1944 - Gladys (Maria) Knight
singer: w/The Pips: Midnight Train to Georgia, If I Were Your Woman, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Neither One of Us, Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me, Every Beat of My Heart1944 - Sondra Locke
actress: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Bronco Billy, Every Which Way But Loose, The Gauntlet, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Willard, Sudden Impact; director: Ratboy, Impulse; died Nov 3, 20181944 - Billy Vera
actor: Alice, Knots Landing, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Baywatch, Beverly Hills, 90210; singer: group: Billy Vera and the Beaters: At This Moment [used on the TV show Family Ties], Corner of the Night, Someone Will School You, Someone Will Cool You, Strange Things Happen, I Can Take Care of Myself, Millie1945 - John Fogerty
songwriter; singer: group: Creedence Clearwater: Proud Mary, Have You Ever Seen the Rain, Bad Moon Rising, Lookin’ Out My Back Door; group: The Blue Ridge Rangers: Jambalaya, Hearts of Stone, The Old Man Down the Road, Centerfield1945 - Gary Stewart
country singer: She’s Acting Single [I’m Drinkin’ Doubles], Drinkin’ Thing, Out of Hand; died Dec 16, 2003; more1946 - Ted Snell
hockey: NHL: Pittsburgh Penguins, Kansas City Scouts, Detroit Red Wings1947 - Kevin O’Shea
hockey: NHL: Buffalo Sabres, St. Louis Blues1948 - Bruce Taylor
College Football Hall of Famer: Boston Univ; NFL: San Francisco 49ers [1970–1977]1949 - Shelley Hamlin
golf: Stanford University Hall of Famer; champion: Japan Classic [1975], Phar-Mor at Inverrary [1992], Shoprite LPGA Classic [record: -9, 204: 1993]; William and Mousie Powell Award [1992]; LPGA President [1980, 1981]1949 - Wendy O. Williams
singer: albums: W.O.W., Kommander of Chaos, Deffest and Baddest; died Apr 6, 19981950 - Errol Thompson
hockey: NHL: Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, Pittsburgh Penguins1952 - Terry Schmidt
football: NFL: New Orleans Saints [1974-1975]; Chicago Bears [1976-1984]1955 - Mark Howe
hockey: Olympic silver medalist [1972]; World Hockey Assoc. Rookie of the Year [1973]: Houston Aeros: played with brother Marty and Hockey Hall of Famer Dad, Gordie Howe; NHL: New England/Hartford Whalers, Philadelphia Flyers, Detroit Red Wings1957 - Kirk Gibson
baseball [outfield]: Detroit Tigers [1979–1987]: 1984 World Series champs; Los Angeles Dodgers [1988–1990]: 1984 World Series champs; Kansas City Royals [1991]; Pittsburgh Pirates [1992]; Detroit Tigers [1993–1995]; manager: Arizona Diamondbacks [2010–2014]1962 - Brandon Cruz
actor: Safe, The Bad News Bears, The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
1962 - Roland Gift
singer: group: Fine Young Cannibals: Johnny Come Home1964 - Christa Miller
actress: Cougar Town, The Andromeda Strain, The Operator, A Friend to Die For, Stepfather III, The Drew Carey Show, Scrubs1967 - Nick Manning
actor [2000-2013]: X-rated films: Bum Plumbers, Bum Plumbers 2, Chronicles of a Pervert, Island Fever, Sick Girls Need Sick Boys, Lust in Leather, Uniform Behavior, Doc MaCock, Bikini Time Machine, Travel Well, Kamikaze1967 - Glen Rice
basketball [guard]: Univ of Michigan; Miami Heat, Charlotte Hornets, LA Lakers, NY Knicks, Houston Rockets, LA Clippers1968 - Kylie Minogue
Grammy-winning singer: Come into My World [2004]; The Loco-Motion, Especially for You, Hand on Your Heart, Better the Devil You Know, Confide in Me, Spinning Around, Slow, 2 Hearts, All The Lovers, Can’t Get You Out of My Head; actress: San Andreas, Holy Motors, Bio-Dome, Street Fighter, Moulin Rouge!; more1969 - Mike DiFelice
baseball [catcher, first base]: Univ of Tennessee; SL Cardinals, TB Devil Rays, Arizona Diamondbacks, KC Royals, Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs, Florida Marlins1969 - Damian Rhodes
hockey [goalie]: Toronto Maple Leafs, Ottawa Senators, Atlanta Thrashers1970 - Jason Belser
football [safety]: Univ of Oklahoma; NFL: Indianapolis Colts, KC Chiefs1971 - Marco Rubio
politician: Florida Republican known as the crown prince of the Tea Party movement: U.S. Senator [2011- ]1977 - Elisabeth Hasselbeck
TV talk show host: The View [2003-2013]; right-wing political activist: Fox News; married to former NFL QB Tim Hasselbeck1978 - Jake Johnson
actor: Minx, New Girl, 21 Jump Street, Paper Heart, Get Him to the Greek, Drinking Buddies, Let’s Be Cops, High School USA!, Digging for Fire, Jurassic World1979 - Jesse Bradford
actor: Bring It On, A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries, Romeo and Juliet, Hackers, King of the Hill, Presumed Innocent, My Blue Heaven, Prancers, Falling In Love)1979 - Ronald Curry
football [wide receiver]: University of North Carolina; NFL: Oakland Raiders, Detroit Lions1985 - Carey Mulligan
actress: The Great Gatsby, Drive, Never Let Me Go, Shame, Inside Llewyn Davis, Far from the Madding Crowd, Suffragette; Broadway: Skylight1986 - Joseph Cross
actor: Strangers with Candy, The Spring, Jack Frost, Saint Maybe, Wide Awake, Desperate Measures, Northern Lights1986 - Michael Oher
football [offensive lineman]: NFL: Baltimore Ravens [2009–2013]: 2013 Super Bowl XLVII champs; Tennessee Titans [2014]; Carolina Panthers [2015–2016]: 2016 Super Bowl 501987 - Jessica Rothe
actress: Happy Death Day, La La Land, Mary + Jane, Valley Girl, Happy Death Day 2U1988 - Percy Harvin
football [wide receiver]: NFL: Minnesota Vikings [2009–2012], Seattle Seahawks [2013–2014]: 2014 Super Bowl XLVIII champs, New York Jets [2014], Buffalo Bills [2015-2016]1999 - Cameron Boyce
actor: Mirrors, Eagle Eye, Grown Ups, Jessie, Descendants film series, Jake and the Never Land Pirates, Gamer’s Guide to Pretty Much Everything; died Jul 6, 2019 (age 20; complications from epilepsy)
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Hit Music on This Day May 28
1947Linda (facts) - Buddy Clark with the Ray Noble Orchestra
My Adobe Hacienda (facts) - Eddy Howard
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