WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2008

Today is Wednesday, May 28, the 149th day of 2008. There are 217 days left in the year.

1742 _ first indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London)

1851 _ Sojourner Truth attends Women's Rights Convention

1863 _ First black regiment (54 Massachusetts) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War

1871 _ Paris communards revolt put down

1892 _ Sierra Club forms by John Muir in San Francisco, for conservation of nature

1958 _ French Government of Pflimlin resigns; 200,000 demonstrate against De Gaulle

1961 _ Amnesty International is founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)

1964 _ Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Delhi

1964 _ Palestine National Congress forms the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) in Jerusalem

1972 _ White House ``plumbers" break into Democratic National HQ at Watergate