TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013

Today is Tuesday, May 28, the 148th day of 2013. There are 217 days left in the year.

1742 ― First indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman’s Fields, London)

1871 ― Paris communards revolt put down

1923 ― Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere

1961 ― Amnesty International is founded (Nobel Peace Prize, 1977)

1961 ― Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on Orient Express (after 78 years)

1964 ― Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Delhi

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

1971 ― USSR Mars 3 launched, first spacecraft to soft land on Mars

1972 ― White House “plumbers” break into Democratic National HQ at Watergate

1997 ― Bob Dylan hospitalized in England with histoplasmosis