^B{^#!16!28 May^N! Feast day of St Bernard of Aosta, St Ignatius of Rostov, St Senator of Milan, St William of Gellone, St Germanus of Paris, and St Justus of Urgel.
^B{1358^B} In France the uprising known as the Jacquerie broke out - the peasants were protesting at their impoverished state after the ravages of the Hundred Years' War. ^B{1539^B} Royal assent was given to an Act (the Six Articles of Religion) 'abolishing diversity of opinions' in England, after Henry VIII personally intervened in the Lords' debate to argue with the Reforming bishops. ^B{1932^B} The IJselmeer was formed in the Netherlands, by the completion of a dam which enclosed the former Zuider Zee. ^B{1956^B} France ceded former French settlements in India to the Indian Union. ^B{1959^B} Britain announced the removal of controls on imports of many consumer goods from the dollar area, with increased import quotas of other goods. ^B{1961^B} The last journey of the ^I{Orient Express^I} train, from Paris to Bucharest; it had been in operation for 78 years.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}King George I of Great Britain, ^B{1660^B}; Joseph Guillotin, French physician and revolutionary, ^B{1738^B}; William Pitt, British politician, ^B{1759^B}; Thomas Moore, Irish poet, ^B{1779^B}; Prosper MΘrimΘe, French novelist, ^B{1803^B}; F W Maitland, English historian, ^B{1850^B}; Ian Fleming, English novelist, ^B{1908^B}; Thora Hird, English actress, ^B{1916^B}; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone, ^B{1925^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, ^B{1089^B}; Edward Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, English admiral, ^B{1672^B}; Thomas Chippendale, English cabinet-maker, ^B{1779^B}; Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, Swiss oceanographer and marine zoologist, ^B{1807^B}; Noah Webster, US lexicographer, ^B{1843^B}; Henry Thomas Buckle, English historian, ^B{1862^B}; Lord John Russell, Earl Russell, British politician, ^B{1878^B}; Alfred Adler, Austrian psychiatrist, ^B{1937^B}.
