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On This Day

May 28

2006
DWI: Coors Brewing Company CEO and TV pitchman Peter Coors is arrested for DWI.

1980
First women to graduate from West Point Military Academy.

1975
First whooping crane born in captivity to parents raised in captivity, at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Maryland. (Source: Famous First Facts)

1959
The U.S. launches two monkeys, Able and Baker, into space. They were both recovered alive, although Able died during surgery to remove a test probe from under her skin.

1951
Willie Mays hits his first major-league home run.

1934
First payments by the FDIC on a closed bank: Fond du Lac State Bank of East Peoria, Ill closes. The FDIC paid off its depositors the following July.

1754
French and Indian War: The first fighting takes place when Gen. George Washington defeats the French near Great Meadows. He then built Fort Necessity on the site.

585 B.C.
First historical event for which the exact date is known: A battle between the Medes and the Lydians is called off when both armies are frightened by an eclipse of the Sun.

1947
Sondra Locke, American actress, often teamed with Clint Eastwood. Film: The Outlaw Josey Wales (1975), The Gauntlet (1977), and Every Which Way But Loose (1978).

1944
Gladys Knight, American Grammy-winning singer, with the Pips. Music: Midnight Train to Georgia (1973, #1).

1938
Jerry West, American basketball player, coach, manager. He set the NBA record for most free throws made in a single season (840 in 1966).

1934
Emilie, Marie, Cecile, Annette, and Yvonne Dionne, Canadian quintuplets, the world's first known surviving quintuplets.

1931
Carroll Baker, American actress. Film: Baby Doll (1956, the thumb-sucking wife).

1910     d. 1975
T-Bone Walker (Aaron Walker), American singer, Daddy of the Blues.

1908     d. 1964
Ian Fleming, British author, creator of James Bond 007. He also wrote Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang.

1908
Ernest Stavro Blofeld, James Bond's evil foe in the movies and books.

1888     d. 1953
Jim Thorpe (Bright Path), American athlete, considered the greatest athlete of the first half of the 20th century. He played professional football and baseball, and excelled in boxing, wrestling, gymnastics, swimming, hockey, basketball, and track.

1818     d. 1893
Pierre T. Beauregard, American Confederate general. He led the attack on Fort Sumter starting the Civil War.

1738     d. 1814
Joseph Ignace Guillotin, French physician. His campaign for the use of a machine to provide humane executions led to the invention of the guillotine by a German mechanic.

1972     b. 1894
Edward VIII (Duke of Windsor), King of England (1936). He gave up the Throne in 1937 to marry American divorcee Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson.

1971     b. 1924
Audie Murphy, American war hero, actor. He was the most decorated American hero of World War II; he received the Congressional Medal of Honor along with 27 other decorations.

1937     b. 1870
Alfred Adler, Austrian psychiatrist, chief proponent of the "inferiority complex" as the source of psychological problems.

1843     b. 1758
Noah Webster, American lexicographer, schoolmaster to America. Works: Blue-Backed Speller (1783) and An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828).

1672     b. 1624
Richard Nicolls, first English colonial governor (1664-68) of New York. Introduced the first organized sport in American when he built (1664) a horse racing track on Long Island.

1081     b. ????
Saint Bernard of Montjoux, patron saint of mountain climbers.

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