TIME TRAVELING, MAY 28 1754 Twenty-two-year-old Virginia militia lieutenant colonel George Washington successfully defeats a party of French and Indian scouts in southwest Pennsylvania as Virginia attempts to lay claim to the territory for its own settlers. The action snowballs into the Seven Years’ War with the French and launches the military career of the first American commander in chief. 1892 The Sierra Club is organized in San Francisco, Calif., by Scottish-born American conservationist and preservationist John Muir, who becomes its first president. 1928 Chrysler Corporation merges with Dodge Brothers, Inc. 1929 Warner Brothers debuts On With The Show in New York City. It is the first all-color, all-talking feature length movie. Directed by Alan Crosland, it stars Joe E. Brown, Betty Compson, Arthur Lake, Ethel Waters, and Louise Fazenda. 1934 The Dionne quintuplets are born near Callander, Ontario, to Olivia and Elzire Dionne. The babies are the first quintuplets known to have survived infancy. The identical sisters are named Yvonne (died 2001), Annette, Cecile, Emilie (d. 1954), and Marie (d. 1970). 1937 The government of Germany – under the control of Adolf Hitler of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party – forms a new state-owned company, Volkswagenwerk, or “The People’s Car Company,” headquartered in Wolfsburg, Germany. The Volkswagen is displayed for the first time at the Berlin Motor Show in 1939. 1940 During World War II, Belgium surrenders to Germany. 1955 Billboard reports that The Ballad of Davy Crockett is the most popular song in the U.S. 1957 National League club owners vote to allow the Brooklyn Dodgers to move to Los Angeles and to allow the New York Giants to move to San Francisco. 1961 Amnesty International, a human rights organization, is founded. 1977 Fire races through the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Ky., killing 165 people. Among those who escapes is singer John Davidson. 1985 David Jacobsen, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, is abducted by pro-Iranian kidnappers. He is freed 17 months later. 1987 Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old amateur West German pilot, lands a private plane near the Kremlin in Moscows Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses through more than 400 miles of Soviet airspace. The event proves to be an immense embarrassment to the Soviet government and military. Rust is imprisoned for violating Soviet airspace and serves 18 months before being released on August 3, 1988. 1996 President Bill Clinton’s former business partners in the Whitewater land deal are convicted of fraud. 1998 Comedian and actor Phil Hartman, 49, famous for his work on “Saturday Night Live” and “NewsRadio,” is shot to death by his troubled wife in a murder-suicide. 1998 Dr. Susan Terebey discovers a planet outside of our solar system with the use of photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. 1999 Leonardo de Vincis The Last Supper is returned to public display in Milan, Italy, after more than 20 years of restoration work.
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