On May 28, 1892 the Sierra Club was organized.
In 1929 the first all-color talking picture, “On With the Show,” opened in New York.
In 1937 the Golden Gate Bridge opened.
In 1940 the Belgian army surrendered to invading German forces.
In 1957 baseball’s National League approved the move of the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles and the New York Giants to San Francisco.
In 1972 the Duke of Windsor, who quit Britain’s throne to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, died in Paris at 77.
In 1996 President Bill Clinton’s partners in the Whitewater land deal, James and Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, were convicted of fraud.
In 1998 actor Phil Hartman of “Saturday Night Live” was shot to death at his home in Encino, Calif., by his wife, Brynn, who killed herself.
In 2002 Mildred Wirt Benson, creator of the “Nancy Drew” children’s mystery stories under the pen name Carolyn Keene, died at 96 in Toledo, Ohio.
In 2003 President George W. Bush signed a 10-year, $350 billion package of tax cuts, saying they already were “adding fuel to an economic recovery.”
