TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

May 28, 1977

165 people were killed when fire raced through the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky.

ALSO ON THIS DATE

1533

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declared the marriage of England’s King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid.

1892

The Sierra Club was organized in San Francisco.

1912

The Senate Commerce Committee issued its report on the Titanic disaster that cited a “state of absolute unpreparedness,” improperly tested safety equipment and an “indifference to danger” as some of the causes of an “unnecessary tragedy.”

1929

The first all-color talking picture, “On with the Show!” produced by Warner Bros., opened in New York.

1934

The Dionne quintuplets _ Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne _ were born to Elzire Dionne at the family farm in Ontario, Canada.

1937

President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushed a button in Washington signaling that vehicular traffic could begin crossing the just-opened Golden Gate Bridge in California. Neville Chamberlain became prime minister of Britain. In Nazi Germany, Volkswagen was founded by the German Labour Front for the purpose of creating a “people’s car.”

1940

During World War II, the Belgian army surrendered to invading German forces.

1945

The novel “Brideshead Revisited” by Evelyn Waugh was published in London by Chapman & Hall.