About the day » Saturday May 28, 1966Calender converter

• Herman van Niftrik, Bussum, NL († 2016)
• Gertjan Liefers, Wapenveld, Nederland († 2019)
• Jean Michel Quax, Beverwijk
• Dirk Saerens
• Gijsbertus Johannes van Zadelhoff, Nijmegen (Gelderland) Nederland

• Carol Louis Vannieuwenhuyse (93), Zarren
• Clara Emily Smith (77)
• Amelia Torfs (74), Lier, België
• Alphonse WIPF (74), Traubach-le-Haut (68210, Haut-Rhin, France)
• Aaltje Trip (79), Rolde,Drenthe,Niederlande
• Bear, Peter Jacob Hubert van Van Ulft (79), Venlo
• Aaltje Herling (80), 's-Gravenhage
• Alberdina Schonewille (49), Hellendoorn, Overijssel, Netherlands(Nijverdal)
• Albert de Jonge (64), Valthermond, Odoorn
• Bertha Anna WINDELS (62), Izegem,8870,Flandre Occidentale,Flandre,BELGIQUE

• 1964 » Armen Gilliam, American basketball player and coach († 2011)
• 1964 » Jeff Fenech, Australian boxer and trainer
• 1964 » Phil Vassar, American singer-songwriter
• 1964 » Zsa Zsa Padilla, Filipino singer and actress
• 1965 » Chris Ballew, American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1965 » Mary Coughlan, Irish politician
• 1966 » Gavin Robertson, Australian cricketer
• 1966 » Miljenko Jergović, Bosnian novelist and journalist
• 1966 » Roger Kumble, American director, screenwriter, and playwright
• 1967 » Glen Rice, American basketball player

• 1952 » Philippe Desranleau, Canadian archbishop (b. 1882)
• 1953 » Tatsuo Hori, Japanese author and poet (b. 1904)
• 1964 » Terry Dillon, American football player (b. 1941)
• 1968 » Fyodor Okhlopkov, Russian sergeant and sniper (b. 1908)
• 1971 » Audie Murphy, American soldier and actor, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1925)
• 1972 » Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
• 1975 » Ezzard Charles, American boxer (b. 1921)
• 1976 » Zainul Abedin, Bangladeshi painter and sculptor (b. 1914)
• 1980 » Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician and academic (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Mary Lou Williams, American pianist and composer (b. 1910)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Peter
4. Hendrik
5. Robert
6. Cornelis
7. John
8. Pieter
9. Paul
10. Ronald
11. Marcel
12. Willem
13. Johan
14. Jacob
15. David
16. Richard

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Monique
4. Anna
5. Petra
6. Ingrid
7. Jolanda
8. Elisabeth
9. Yvonne
10. Cornelia
11. Petronella
12. Anita
13. Jacqueline
14. Catharina
15. Sandra
16. Karin

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 12.4 million citizens.
• February 3 » The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon.
• March 5 » BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board.
• June 8 » Topeka, Kansas, is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita scale: The first to exceed US$100million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
• July 1 » The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
• September 8 » The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap".
• October 9 » Vietnam War: South Korean troops commit the Binh Tai Massacre.

The temperature on May 28, 1966 was between 6.2 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.