About the day » Thursday May 28, 1868Calender converter

• Albert de Vries, Aengwierde († 1871)
• Albert Alfred Player, Moorooroo House, near Angaston, South Australia († 1870)
• Aaltje KLAVER, Ilpendam, Waterland, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1913)
• Agnes GARDINER, Queensland, Australia († 1957)
• Aaltje Koster, Twisk († 1937)
• Anke Roosje, Hindeloopen, Friesland, Nederland († 1891)
• Abraham Johannesz van Dam, Vlissingen, ze.nld († 1945)
• Aaltje Koster, Twisk
• abraham van DAM, vlissingen († 1945)
• Aaltje Boerstra, Wonseradeel Friesland († 1918)

• Adrianus Breunissen (59), Bemmel
• Anna Coleta Boons (2), Meerhout, België
• Aaltje Helder (79), Blokzijl
• Arien Laan (77), Andijk, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• van Splunder (0), Ouddorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alice Louisa Elizabeth Anspach (17)
• Anne Eugénie Arthaud de Viry (78), Lyon
• Aaltje Jacobs Helder (79), Blokzijl, Nederland
• Adriaan Jansen (10), Etten-Leur
• Antje Jans Kerkhof (58), Drachten, gem. Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland

• 1853 » Carl Larsson, Swedish painter and author († 1919)
• 1858 » Carl Richard Nyberg, Swedish inventor and businessman, developed the blow torch († 1939)
• 1872 » Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist and mountaineer († 1917)
• 1878 » Paul Pelliot, French sinologist and explorer († 1945)
• 1879 » Milutin Milanković, Serbian mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist († 1958)
• 1883 » Clough Williams-Ellis, English-Welsh architect, designed the Portmeirion Village († 1978)
• 1883 » Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian poet and politician († 1966)
• 1884 » Edvard Beneš, Czech academic and politician, 2nd President of Czechoslovakia († 1948)
• 1886 » Santo Trafficante, Sr., Italian-American mobster († 1954)
• 1888 » Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian journalist and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Estonia († 1942)

• 1808 » Richard Hurd, English bishop (b. 1720)
• 1811 » Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for War (b. 1742)
• 1831 » William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, Scottish-English admiral (b. 1756)
• 1843 » Noah Webster, American lexicographer (b. 1758)
• 1849 » Anne Brontë, English novelist and poet (b. 1820)
• 1864 » Simion Bărnuțiu, Romanian historian and politician (b. 1808)
• 1878 » John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
• 1904 » Kicking Bear, Native American tribal leader (b. 1846)
• 1916 » Ivan Franko, Ukrainian economist, journalist, and poet (b. 1856)
• 1927 » Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter and stage designer (b. 1878)

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• April 7 » Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation, is assassinated by a Fenian activist.
• May 14 » Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends as former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward.
• May 29 » Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia is assassinated.
• June 23 » Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer".
• July 25 » The Wyoming Territory is established.
• December 9 » The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.

The temperature on May 28, 1868 was about 24.3 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 50%.