Today is Thursday, May 28, the 148th day of 2009. There are 217 days left in the year.
585 B.C. _ Thales Miletus predicts solar eclipse; Persian-Lydian battle ends
1742 _ first indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London)
1923 _ Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere
1923 _ U.S. unemployment has nearly ended
1929 _ First all-color talking picture ``On With the Show" exhibited (NYC)
1961 _ Amnesty International is founded (Nobel Peace Prize, 1977)
1962 _ Suit alleging de facto school segregation filed in Rochester, N.Y.
1964 _ Palestine National Congress forms the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) in Jerusalem
1964 _ Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Delhi
1972 _ White House ``plumbers" break into Democratic National HQ at Watergate