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