TODAY is Wednesday, May 28, 2014. On this day:

585 BC - Thales Miletus predicted a solar eclipse.

1533 - England’s Archbishop declared the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid.

1805 - Napoleon was crowned in Milan, Italy.

1900 - Britain annexed the Orange Free State.

1813 - Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth reach Mt York, from where they sighted rich grazing land on the other side of the mountains.

1814 - Governor Macquarie offers a free pardon to absconded Tasmanian convicts, except for murderers.

1937 - Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of England.

1940 - During World War II, Belgium surrendered to Germany.

1961 - Amnesty International was founded.

1977 - Fire raced through the Beverly Hills Supper Club. 165 people were killed.

1987 - Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow’s Red Square after evading Soviet air defences. He was released August 3, 1988.

1995 - An earthquake in the Russian town Neftegorsk killed at least 2000 people. It had a magnitude of 7.5.

1996 - U.S. President Clinton’s former business partners in the Whitewater land deal were convicted of fraud.

1999 - In Milan, Italy, Leonardo de Vinci’s “The Last Supper” was put back on display after more than 20 years of restoration work.

2000 - 250,000 people walk across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the People's Walk for Reconciliation during Coroboree 2000.

2002 - Russia became a limited partner in NATO with the creation of the NATO-Russia Council.