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This is a list of selected May 28 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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1644English Civil War: Royalist troops allegedly slaughtered up to 1,600 people during their storm and capture of the Town of Bolton. refimprove
1892 – Aided by a group of professors from the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University, preservationist John Muir founded the environmental organization Sierra Club in San Francisco. expansion, external links
1905Japanese forces led by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet in the Battle of Tsushima, the decisive naval battle in the Russo-Japanese War. unreferenced section
1918 – The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, the first successful democratic republic in the Muslim world, was proclaimed in Ganja by the Azerbaijani National Council. refimprove section
1940World War II: On the same day that Belgium surrendered to Germany, Allied forces gained their first major victory on land when they recaptured Narvik, Norway. Narvik: refimprove section
1961 – The British newspaper The Observer published English lawyer Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners, starting a letter-writing campaign that grew and became the human rights organization Amnesty International. unreferenced section
1974 – After widespread loyalist opposition and a two-week general strike, the power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement between Northern Ireland and a cross-border Council of Ireland collapsed. refimprove
1975 – Sixteen West African countries signed the Treaty of Lagos, establishing the Economic Community of West African States to promote economic integration. outdated
1999 – After 21 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper was put back on display in Milan, Italy. refimprove section
2004Ayad Allawi was unanimously elected by the Iraqi Governing Council to be the interim Prime Minister of Iraq. unreferenced section

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May 28

The Spanish Armada
The Spanish Armada

Mary Polly Paaaina (d. 1873) · Patrick White (b. 1912) · Kylie Minogue (b. 1968)

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