On This Day:
Wednesday May 28, 2014 This is the 148th day of the year, with 217 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: decathlon The decathlon is a two-day athletic competition consisting of ten track-and-field events. The first day's events are the 100-Meter Dash, Long Jump, Shot Put, High Jump, and 400 Meter Dash; they are followed on the second day by the 110 Meter Hurdles, Discus Throw, Pole Vault, Javelin Throw, and 1500 Meter Run. The decathlon was introduced at the Olympic Games in 1912 and was first won by American athlete Jim Thorpe, who was also the pentathlon champion. However, in 1913 an investigation by the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) showed that Thorpe had played semiprofessional baseball in 1909 and 1910, which should have disqualified him from Olympic competition. He was subsequently deprived of his gold medals. In 1982, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) restored his name to the Olympic record books. The winner of the Olympic decathlon is sometimes called "the World's Greatest Athlete."
Holidays Feast day of St. Bernard of Aosta, St. Ignatius of Rostov, St. Senator of Milan, St. William of Gellone, St. Germanus of Paris, and St. Justus of Urgel.
Azerbaijan: Independence Day / Day of the Republic.
Ethiopia: National Day.
Scotland: Whitsunday Term Day.
Events 1533 - England's Archbishop declared the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid.
1754 - In the first engagement of the French and Indian War, a Virginia militia under 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeated a French reconnaissance party in southwestern Pennsylvania.
1863 - The 54th Massachusetts, the first regiment of African-American recruits in the Civil War, left Boston for South Carolina.
1892 - The Sierra Club was organized in San Francisco.
1923 - The U.S. Attorney General determined that it was legal for women to wear trousers.
1928 - The Chrysler Corporation merged with Dodge Brothers, Inc.
1929 - Warner Brothers debuted the first all-color talking picture, "On With the Show."
1937 - Neville Chamberlain became prime minister of Britain.
1953 - "Melody," the first animate, 3-D cartoon in Technicolor, premiered.
1957 - The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) was established.
1961 - The Orient Express, from Paris to Bucharest, made its last journey after operating for 78 years. It was revived in 1982.
1961 - Amnesty International, the human rights organization, was founded.
1999 - Leonardo da Vinci's newly-restored masterpiece "The Last Supper" is put back on display in Milan, Italy.
2000 - The volcano Mount Cameroon erupts near the Gulf of Guinea.
2002 - NATO declared Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
Births 1660 - King George I of Great Britain.
1779 - Thomas Moore, Irish poet, lyricist.
1807 - Louis Agassiz, American zoologist.
1888 - Jim Thorpe, American Olympic gold medalist, baseball, football player; president of what became the National Football League.
1908 - Ian Fleming, British author, creator of the character James Bond.
1934 - Dionne quintuplets, born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne in Ontario, Canada.
1945 - John Fogerty, American musician.
Deaths 1843 - Noah Webster, American lexicographer.
1971 - Audie Murphy, American actor and the most decorated U.S. combat soldier of World War II.
1998 - Phil Hartman Canadian-born comedic actor.
2003 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian physicist and Nobel Laureate chemist.
2007 - Charles Nelson Reilly, American comic actor.
2007 - Jörg Immendorff, German painter and sculptor.
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