FRIDAY, MAY 28, 2010

585 B.C. _ Thales Miletus predicts solar eclipse Persian-Lydian battle ends

1533 _ England's archbishop voids King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's marriage

1664 _ First Baptist Church is organized (Boston)

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

1871 _ Paris communards revolt put down

1923 _ U.S. unemployment has nearly ended

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

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

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

1997 _ Wallace Berg, 42, is fourth American to scale Mt. Everest for third time