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