May 28
This day in history:
- 1996 – U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas, Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
- 1991 – The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
- 1754 – French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
- 2010 – In West Bengal, India, the Jnaneswari Express train derailment and subsequent collision kills 148 passengers.
Births:
- 1957 – Colin Barnes, English footballer
- 1837 – George Ashlin, Irish architect, co-designed St Colman's Cathedral (died 1921)
- 1909 – Red Horner, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2005)
Deaths:
- 1808 – Richard Hurd, English bishop (born 1720)
- 2014 – Oscar Dystel, American publisher (born 1912)
- 1983 – Erastus Corning 2nd, American soldier and politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany (born 1909)
Holidays:
- Downfall of the Derg (Ethiopia)
- Youm-e-Takbir (Pakistan)
- Menstrual Hygiene Day
Random Article of the day:
Sucrosomial iron
Sucrosomial iron is a new oral iron preparation containing ferric pyrophosphate covered by phospholipids plus sucrose ester of fatty acid matrix. This allows the molecule to be absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract by trans-cellular, para-cellular and M-cells independently of hepcidin and due to gastro-resistant properties, it does not cause the side effects such as gastric irritation which is commonly associated to oral iron.