Daily Calendar for Thursday, May 28, 2026

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Noah Webster (writer) – 1843
Phil Hartman (actor) – 1998
Mildred Wirt Benson (original author, under the pen name Carolyn Keene, of the Nancy Drew mystery books) – 2002
Maya Angelou (poet) – 2014

French West India Company secured royal grant of all French colonies in America – 1664
First stamp auction in the U.S. – 1870
The Sierra Club, dedicated to the conservation of natural resources, was founded – 1892
Patent application for John B. Gruelle’s Raggedy Ann doll filed – 1915
R.H. Macy & Co. was incorporated – 1919
On With the Show, the first all-color talking picture, premiered in New York City – 1929
Golden Gate Bridge opened to vehicles – 1937
When a Man Loves a Woman by Percy Sledge topped charts – 1966
Mars 3 orbiter and lander was launched – 1971
An unidentified soldier killed during the Vietnam War was buried with military honors in the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington, Virginia. (He was later identified via DNA testing, and exhumed.) – 1984
The cover of Vanity Fair featured a photo of President Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan kissing – 1985
Hubble Space Telescope photographed unknown object TMR-1C – 1998
The first image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of a mysterious space object labeled TMR-1C was released. – 1998
Baby Jessica McClure, who held the attention of the nation when she fell into an abandoned well at 18 months old, graduated from Greenwood High School in Texas – 2004
In Germany, several people reported seeing what seemed to be UFOs. A police investigation found that it was a 29-year old man proposing to his girlfriend accompanied by glowing paper lanterns – 2008

Three tornadoes tore through Cincinnati, Ohio – 1809
It was 97 degrees F in San Francisco, California – 1887
Mother Nature dumped up to 10 inches of snow on parts of Wisconsin – 1947
100 degrees F in Portland, Oregon – 1983
Large hail hit areas of Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey – 2019
Out-of-control wildfires near Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, led to evacuations. – 2023