Today is Monday, May 28, the 149th day of 2012. There are 217 days left in the year.
1664 ― First Baptist Church is organized (Boston)
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
1942 ― 1,800 Czechoslovakians murdered by Nazis during attack on Heydrich
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
1979 ― European Market accepts Greece as member
1997 ― Bob Dylan hospitalized in England with histoplasmosis