On May 28, 1863, the first black regiment from the North left Boston to fight in the Civil War.
In 1929 the first all-color talking picture, “On with the Show,” opened in New York.
In 1937 President Franklin Roosevelt pushed a button in Washington signaling that vehicular traffic could cross the just-opened Golden Gate Bridge in California.
In 1940 the Belgian army surrendered to invading German forces.
In 1957 the National League approved the move of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants baseball teams to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively.
In 1985 David Jacobsen, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, was abducted by pro-Iranian kidnappers. (He was freed 17 months later.)
In 1990 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein opened a two-day Arab League summit in Baghdad by saying if Israel were to deploy nuclear or chemical weapons against Arabs, Iraq would respond with “weapons of mass destruction.”
In 1998 Pakistan matched India with five nuclear test blasts of its own, raising fears of a nuclear arms race.
