Today in History -28th of May

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What Happened On This Day – 28 May

• 1998 Pakistan detonates five atom bombs

  The nuclear tests came as a response to India's tests just days earlier. Fearing a devastating conflict between the two nuclear powers, a number of countries, including the U.S. and Japan, imposed economic sanctions.

• 1987 Mathias Rust lands on the Red Square in Moscow

  The 19-year old West German amateur pilot illegally landed his Cessna in the heart of the Russian capital at the height of the Cold War.

• 1961 Amnesty International is founded

  The publication of Peter Benenson's article “The forgotten prisoners” is commonly considered the organization's birth hour. Amnesty International is one of the world's most influential human rights organizations.

• 1937 Volkswagen (VW) is founded

  The automobile manufacturer whose name means “People's Car” in German is one of the world's biggest. It produced classics like the VW Golf and the VW Beetle.

• 1936 Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication

  In this landmark paper, the British computer pioneer described the Turing Machine and defined the inherent limits of computation.

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Births On This Day – 28 May

• 1968 Kylie Minogue

  Australian singer-songwriter, producer, actress

• 1944 Rudy Giuliani

  American lawyer, politician, 107th Mayor of New York City

• 1923 György Ligeti

  Romanian/Austrian composer

• 1908 Ian Fleming

  English journalist, author

• 1883 Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

  Indian politician

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