Today in history: May 28, 2023, what major events happened?

Today is May 28, 2023, the 148th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (149th in leap years), and 217 days before the end of the year.

Let's follow the editor to see what major events have happened in history today!

1. Timeline

(i) 6th century BC

Today in history

585 BC: Due to a solar eclipse, the Medes and Lydia strike peace, with the Harris River as the border between the two countries.

(ii) 14th century

1351: (Xinhai, May 11th year of Emperor Yuanshun's reign) Liu Futong of Yingzhou launched an uprising with the name of the Red Turban, and soon captured Yingzhou, known in history as the "Red Turban Uprising".

(iii) 16th century

1503: Permanent Peace Treaty between England and Scotland.

1588: Spain's armada of up to 130 ships and 30,000 men sets out from Lisbon, Portugal, to fight the English Channel and the British Royal Navy.

(iv) 19th century

1858: Yishan, the general of Heilongjiang in the Qing Dynasty, and Muraviyov, the governor-general of Eastern Siberia, signed the Treaty of Yaohun, ceding 600,000 square kilometers of territory north of Heilongjiang to Russia.

1862: Li Xiucheng led the Taiping Army to defeat the "Chang Sheng Army" again, sinking a fire wheel.

1871: The Paris Commune is dissolved and the Bloodshed Week ends.

1892: With funding from professors at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University, American environmentalist John Muir founded the Sierra Club.

1895: Chengdu, Sichuan Province, revolt against foreign churches: the destruction of churches. In the end, 6 people were beheaded, 17 people were charged to the army, 7 counties were dismissed from their posts and investigated, and the compensation was 1.01 million taels.

(5) The 20th century

1905: The Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy, led by Heihachiro Togo, completely defeats the Russian Navy's Baltic Fleet at the Battle of the Tsushima Strait.

1918: The National Assembly of Azerbaijan declares the full independence of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, the first democratic republic in the Muslim world.

1921: France resumes diplomatic relations after seventeen years of severing diplomatic relations with the Vatican.

1922: Cao Kun and Wu Peifu held an emergency meeting in Tianjin and telegraphed Li Yuanhong to resume his post.

1922: Portuguese soldiers molest Chinese women on the streets of Macau, triggering the Jebsen Incident.

1926: A coup d'état takes place in Portugal, which is a 528 reform.

1930: The Chrysler Building in Manhattan, New York, is completed, and remained the world's tallest building until the Empire State Building was completed in 1931.

1933: Wang Jingwei and Jiang Zhongzheng jointly telegraphed, "To save the country, we must first suppress the communists."

1936: British mathematician Alan Turing proposes an abstract symbolic computing model of the Turing machine, which he believes can simulate the algorithm of any logical machine.

1937: Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1940: World War II: Belgium surrenders to Nazi Germany and the Belgian campaign ends.

1942: In retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazis murder more than 1,800 people in Czechoslovakia.

1946: The Kuomintang government promulgated the "Precautions for Publication and Distribution", implementing the "special system" of publishing.

1948: A train fire occurred between Taiwan Railway's Wanhua Station and Banqiao Station, presumed to have killed at least 64 people and injured 76 people, making it the worst railway accident in Taiwan's history.

1949: The Shanghai Municipal People's Government was formally established.

1949: Jiefang Daily, an organ of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, was launched.

1959: The United States launches two monkeys (Abel the Macaque and Miss Baker) into space on a PGM-19 Jupiter, unharmed when the rocket is recovered.

1961: British lawyer Peter Bennansen begins publishing articles in The Observer, his first campaign for the human rights organization Amnesty International.

1964: The Palestinian National Congress opens in the Arab Quarter of Jerusalem and decides to establish the Palestine Liberation Organization.

1975: Sixteen West African countries formally sign the Treaty of Lagos, establishing the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to promote economic integration.

1976: The United States and the Soviet Union sign a treaty limiting the scale of underground nuclear explosions for peaceful purposes.

1979: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat announces the opening of an air corridor between Egypt and Israel.

1987: Red Square incident: Matthias Rust, a 19-year-old young man from the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), makes a sudden landing on Moscow's Red Square at around 7:30 p.m. in a rented light aircraft, the Cessna.

1987: Hong Kong publishes the Green Paper on the Review of Representative Constitutional Development.

1993: The first subway in Shanghai, People's Republic of China was completed and put into operation.

Shanghai Metro Line 1 (Shanghai Metro Line 1) is the first metro line to open and operate in Shanghai, China, with trial operation of the southern section (Jinjiang Amusement Park Station to Xujiahui Station) on May 28, 1993, the northern section of the first phase of the trial operation project (Hengshan Road Station to Shanghai Railway Station) on April 10, 1995, and the first phase of the southern extension (Jinjiang Amusement Park Station to Xinzhuang Station) opened on December 28, 1996. On December 28, 2004, the trial operation of the north extension (Shanghai Railway Station [not included] to Gongfu Xincun Station) was opened, and on December 29, 2007, the trial operation of the north extension (Gongfu Xincun Station [not included] to Fujin Road Station) was opened, and the logo color was red.

Shanghai Metro Line 1 starts from Xinzhuang Station in Minhang District, passes through Minhang District, Xuhui District, Huangpu District, Jing'an District, Baoshan District, and ends at Fujin Road Station in Baoshan District.

1995: A 7.6 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale struck Sakhalin, Russia, killing more than 2,000 people.

(6) The 21st century

2008: Nepal announces the abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of a republic.

2. Birth

1787 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian musician (b. 1719)

1805 – Luigi Bocherini, Italian composer and cellist (born 1743)

1849 – Anne Brontë, English novelist and poet (born 1820)

1912 – Paul Emil Lecock de Boisbodeland, French chemist (born 1838)

1963: Chen Chi-hsiung, participant of the Taiwan independence movement (b. 1916)

1972: Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom, Duke of Windsor after abdication (b. 1894)

1973 – Hans Schmidt-Iserstedt, German conductor and composer (born 1900)

1975: Patrick Prenkitt, British aristocrat, 7th Baron Prenkit (b. 1923)

1998: Zhao Zhongyao, Chinese nuclear physicist (b. 1902)

1998 – Phil Hartman, Canadian-American actor, comedian, screenwriter and graphic artist (born 1948)

2007 – Toshikatsu Matsuoka, Japanese politician (b. 1945)

2014 – Maya Angelo, American writer (born 1928)

2016: Bryce DeJain-Jones, NBA star (born 1992)

2018: Wang Dahong, Taiwanese architect (born 1917)

2022: Evaristo Carvalho, politician in Sao Tome and Principe, former President of Sao Tome and Principe (born 1941)

2022: Buyar Nišani, Albanian politician, 6th President of Albania (born 1966)

3. Death

1140: Xin abandons illness, Southern Song dynasty poet (died 1207)

1660 – George I, Elector of Hanover, King of England (died 1727)

1759 – William Pitt Jr., British politician and former Prime Minister (died 1806)

1774 – Edward Charles Howard, English chemist (died 1816)

1853 – Carl Larsen, Swedish painter (died 1919)

1878 – Berch, French sinologist and explorer (died 1945)

1879 – Henri-Pierre Roche, French writer (died 1959)

1888 – Jim Thorpe, American athlete considered the most versatile athlete in modern sports history (died 1953)

1894 – Lai He, Taiwanese writer and physician (died 1943)

1895 – Rudolf Minkowski, German-American astronomer (d. 1976)

1897: Dai Li, Lieutenant General of the Republic of China (died 1946)

1908: Ian Flemish, British writer and journalist, best known for the James Pound series of novels (died 1964)

1912 – Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize winner in 1973 (died 1990)

1930: Sun Jiaqin, Chinese painter, son of Sun Chuanfang (died 2010)

1930 – Frank Drake, American astronomer and astrophysicist (died 2022)

1938: Jerry West, American professional basketball player

1940 – Takashi Tachibana, Japanese writer and critic, known as the "giant of knowledge" (died 2021)

1942: Tian Jun, Hong Kong actor

1944: Rudolf Giuliani, American politician

1944: Hwang Yong-sik, South Korean diplomat, 5th representative of the Korean delegation in Taipei, 13th Korean ambassador to Tunisia

1964: Lu Mixue, Hong Kong female program host and media person

1967: Kang Kang, Taiwanese singer and host

1970: Chang Xiuqing, Taiwanese singer

1971: Fan Yimin, Hong Kong television actress

1971: Marco Rubio, Cuban-American lawyer and politician, current U.S. Senator from Florida

1975: Charman She, Hong Kong actor

1978: Jack Johnson, American actor

1980: Mark Feely, Irish singer

1982: Leung Chi Pei, Hong Kong television actress

1983: Zhang Liang, Taiwanese actor and singer

1983 - Robertou Zullía, Brazilian-Hong Kong professional footballer

1985: Kelly Merrigan, British actress

1986: Yuan Ruolan, Taiwanese singer

1986 Charles Nzobia (born Congolese-French) professional footballer

1987: Mai Fuchigami, Japan female voice

1988: MUTA Obuchi, Taiwanese rapper and member of the group MJ116

1989: Wen Yufei, Taiwanese actress

1990: Kyle Walker, English professional footballer

1991: Ni Xuan, Taiwanese female artist, member of Rakuten Girls

1992: Natsumi Hirashima, Japanese entertainer

1994: Sun Yeon-jae, South Korean rhythmic gymnast

1994 – John Stones, English professional footballer

1995: Haruko Nagaya, lead singer of the Japanese band Green and Yellow Society

1997: Wang Yuwen, Chinese actress

1998: Riho Sheath, Japanese singer, actress and announcer

1998: Kim Do-hyun, member of South Korean girl idol group TWICE

1999: Zhai Xiaowen, member of the Chinese boy idol group R1SE

2000: Phil Foden, English professional footballer

2002: Malik Tillmann, German professional footballer

2002: Matthew Ishi, member of the Korean boy group ZB1 Korean-Canadian

4. Holidays and customs

International Hamburg Day

Azerbaijan: Independence Day

Armenia: Republic Day

Nepal: Republic Day

Ethiopia: People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (People's Revolutionary Democratic Front)