Today is Friday, May 28, the 148th day of 2010. There are 217 days left in the year.
�On May 28, 1863, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, made up of freed blacks, left Boston to fight for the Union in the Civil War.
�In 1892, the Sierra Club was organized in San Francisco.
�In 1918, the Battle of Cantigny began during World War I as American troops captured the French town from the Germans.
�In 1929, the first all-color talking picture, �On with the Show,� opened in New York.
�In 1959, the U.S. Army launched Able, a rhesus monkey, and Baker, a squirrel monkey, aboard a Jupiter missile for a suborbital flight; both primates survived.
�In 1972, Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the English throne to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, died in Paris at age 77.
�In 1985, David Jacobsen, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, was abducted by pro-Iranian kidnappers; he was freed 17 months later.
One year ago: A white New York City police officer mistakenly killed an off-duty black colleague in a friendly fire incident in East Harlem. A grand jury declined to indict Officer Andrew Dunton in the shooting of Officer Omar Edwards, who had drawn his gun and was chasing a man who had broken into his car. Kavya Shivashankar, a 13-year-old girl from Kansas, spelled �laodicean� (indifference to religion) to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Today�s Birthdays: Rockabilly singer-musician Sonny Burgess is 81. Actress Carroll Baker is 79. Producer-director Irwin Winkler is 79. Actor John Karlen is 77. Basketball Hall-of-Famer Jerry West is 72. Actress Beth Howland is 69. Singer Gladys Knight is 66. Singer Billy Vera is 66. Singer John Fogerty is 65. Actress-director Sondra Locke is 63. Country musician Jerry Douglas (Alison Krauss and Union Station) is 54. Actor Brandon Cruz (TV: �The Courtship of Eddie�s Father�) is 48. Country singer Phil Vassar is 48. Actress Christa Miller is 46. Singer-musician Chris Ballew (Presidents of the USA) is 45. Rapper Chubb Rock is 42. Singer Kylie Minogue is 42. Actor Justin Kirk is 41. Television personality Elisabeth Hasselbeck (�The View�) is 33. Actor Jesse Bradford is 31. Actress Monica Keena is 31. Pop singer Colbie Caillat is 25. Actress Carey Mulligan is 25. Actor Joseph Cross is 24.
Ten years ago: President Alberto Fujimori of Peru won a lopsided re-election victory in a runoff vote that had been boycotted by his opponent.