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May 28[edit]
1879: Milutin Milanković, famous for relating the cycle of ice ages to characteristics of Earth's orbit, was born in Erdut, Croatia (then Austria-Hungary).
1941: After searching for several hours, the German weather ship Sachsenwald recovered two survivors from the sinking of the battleship Bismarck
2012: Tropical Storm Beryl made landfall near Jacksonville Beach, Florida, with maximum sustained winds of 55 knots (65 mph; 100 km/h). Beryl was the strongest off-season Atlantic tropical cyclone on record to strike the United States.