May 28

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	585 BC	A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.	Written in the Sand	Solar Eclipse	47 Ursae Majoris
2.	1503	James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor are married according to a Papal Bull by Pope Alexander VI. A Treaty of Everlasting Peace between Scotland andEngland signed on that occasion results in a peace that lasts ten years.	Wilco	Everlasting Everything	Wilco (The Album)
3.	1892	In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.	Cursive	Sierra	The Ugly Organ
4.	1934	Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.	The Quintones	Down the Isle of Love	Doo Wop Classics
5.	1936	Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.	Aidan John Moffat	Number on My Hand	Ten Short Songs for Modern Lovers
6.	1937	The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.	John Vanderslice	The Golden Gate	Pixel Revolt
7.	1961	Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organizationAmnesty International.	Spring	The Prisoners (Eight by Ten)	Spring
8.	2002	The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars.	The Microphones	Ice	It Was Hot We Stayed in the Water

(Historical facts about May 28 are from Wikipedia.)