By The Associated Press
                - Today is Friday, May 28, the 148th day of 1999. There are 217 days
                  left in the year.

                - On May 28, 1934 the Dionne quintuplets - Annette, Cecile, Emilie,
                  Marie and Yvonne - were born to Elzire Dionne at the family farm in
                  Ontario, Canada.
                - In 1533 England's Archbishop declared the marriage of King Henry
                  VIII to Anne Boleyn valid.
                - In 1863 the first black regiment from the North left Boston to fight
                  in the Civil War.
                - In 1892 the Sierra Club was organized in San Francisco.
                - In 1929 the first all-color talking picture, "On with the Show,"
                  opened in New York.
                - In 1937 President Roosevelt pushed a button in Washington signaling
                  that vehicular traffic could cross the just-opened Golden Gate
                  Bridge in California.
                - In 1937 Neville Chamberlain became prime minister of Britain.
                - In 1940 during World War II, the Belgian army surrendered to
                  invading German forces.
                - In 1972 the Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the English throne to
                  marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, died in Paris at age 77.
                - In 1984 President Reagan led a state funeral at Arlington National
                  Cemetery for an unidentified American soldier killed in the Vietnam
                  War. (The remains were later positively identified as those of Air
                  Force Lt. Michael J. Blassie.)
                - In 1987 Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a
                  private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air
                  defenses.
                - Ten years ago Emerson Fittipaldi of Brazil won the Indianapolis 500
                  auto race.
                - Five years ago Palestine Liberation Organization officials announced
                  Yasser Arafat had named himself interior minister of the autonomous
                  zones as part of an interim government; 14 other prominent
                  Palestinians, mostly Arafat allies, were appointed to other
                  positions.
                - One year ago Pakistan matched India with five nuclear test blasts of
                  its own, raising fears of a nuclear arms race. Comic actor Phil
                  Hartman of "Saturday Night Live" and "NewsRadio" fame was shot to
                  death at his home in Encino, Calif., by his wife, Brynn, who then
                  killed herself. California astronomer Susan Terebey announced she
                  had photographed what may be a planet some 450 light years from
                  Earth.

                *Happy Birthday*
                - Actress Carroll Baker is 68.
                - Actor John Karlen ("Cagney and Lacey") is 66.
                - Basketball executive Jerry West is 61.
                - Singer Gladys Knight is 55.
                - Singer Billy Vera is 55.
                - Singer John Fogerty is 54.
                - Country singer Gary Stewart is 54.
                - Actress-director Sondra Locke is 52.
                - Singer Roland Gift is 37.
                - Actor Brandon Cruz ("The Courtship of Eddie's Father") is 37.
                - Rapper Chubb Rock is 31.
                - Singer Kylie Minogue is 31.
                - Actor Joseph Cross ("Jack Frost") is 13.