Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 28

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 * 621 – Tang forces led by Li Shimin defeated and captured Dou Jiande at the Battle of Hulao in the civil war that followed the collapse of the Sui dynasty.
 * 1608 – Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi debuted his second opera L'Arianna, now one of his lost works, at a royal wedding in Mantua.
 * 1830 – U.S. president Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law, authorizing him to negotiate with Native Americans for their removal from their ancestral homelands.
 * 1892 – Scottish-American preservationist John Muir (pictured) founded the environmental organization Sierra Club in California.
 * 1940 – Second World War: Belgium surrendered to Nazi Germany, ending the Battle of Belgium.
 * 1987 – Mathias Rust, a West German aviator, flew his Cessna 172 from Helsinki, Finland, through Soviet air defences, landing illegally near Red Square in Moscow.
 * 2010 – A train derailment and collision in the West Midnapore district of West Bengal, India, caused the deaths of at least 148 passengers.
 * Born/died this day: | Germain of Paris |d|576| Wulfstan |d|1023| Joseph-Ignace Guillotin |b|1738|  Carl Larsson |b|1853| Mary Polly Paaaina |d|1873| Ian Fleming |b|1908| Maeve Binchy |b|1939|  Gabriela Michetti |b|1965|