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Events on May 28

• 1453 The last Christian worship service is held in the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.
• 1930 The Chrysler Building is inaugurated in Manhattan, New York City. At a height of 319 m, it displaces the Bank of Manhattan Company Building as the world's tallest building after just one month.
• 1935 The German fighter aircraft Messerschmitt Bf 109, launched in Augsburg, completes its maiden flight.
• 1937 The “Company for the Preparation of the German Volkswagen GmbH” is founded. It establishes the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg.
• 1937 The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is opened to motor traffic.
• 1961 The British weekly newspaper The Observer publishes an appeal by the lawyer Peter Benenson to campaign for the release of political prisoners through letters. Amnesty International is founded.
• 1987 Mathias Rust lands his Cessna 172 not far from Red Square in Moscow on the Soviet Border Guard Day.
• 1991 The non-profit limited-liability company DKMS (German Bone Marrow Donor Database) is founded in Tübingen.
• 1993 The Federal Constitutional Court rules that abortion generally remains unlawful, but does not have to be punished under certain conditions.
• 1997 Borussia Dortmund beats Juventus Turin 3:1 in the Olympiastadion in Munich to win the UEFA Champions League for the first time.
• 2003 Munich becomes the first major city in Germany to opt for Linux rather than Windows for its municipal IT systems.
• 2019 The Austrian Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen removes from office the Austrian federal government under Sebastian Kurz, which had been dismissed the previous day by a no-confidence vote of the National Council.

Born on May 28

• 1884 Edvard Beneš, Czechoslovak politician, co-founder of Czechoslovakia, minister, prime minister and president
• 1892 Sepp Dietrich, German SS general, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, war criminal
• 1921 Heinz G. Konsalik, German writer
• 1923 György Ligeti, Hungarian composer
• 1930 Frank Drake, American astronomer and astrophysicist
• 1940 Wilfried Baasner, German actor
• 1962 Klaus-Jürgen Deuser, German presenter and comedian
• 1981 Adam Green, American singer
• 1981 Boris Herrmann, German professional sailing athlete
• 2000 Phil Foden, English footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „28. Mai“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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