What happened in the world on May 5 th 1928?

Answer 1

* May - The RAND Corporation is established as an independent nonprofit policy research and analysis institution. * 4 May - Laurence Olivier's film version of Hamlet makes its world premiere in London. * 11 May - Luigi Einaudi becomes President of the Italian Republic. * 14 May ** The Declaration of Independence of Israel is made. ** The murder of a 3-year-old girl in Blackburn, England leads to the fingerprinting of more than 40,000 men in the city in an attempt to find the murderer. * 15 May - 1948 Arab-Israeli War: The British Mandate of Palestine is officially terminated; expeditionary forces from Egypt, Transjordan, Syria andi Iraq enter Palestine and clash with Israeli forces. * 16 May - Chaim Weizmann is elected as the first President of Israel. * 18 May - The first Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking. * 26 May - The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as the auxiliary of the United States Air Force. * 28 May - Daniel Francois Malan defeats Jan Smuts and becomes Prime Minister of South Africa, ushering in the heinous era of apartheid, which is finally dismantled by F W de Klerk in 1994. * 30 May - A dike along the Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes: 15 people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.

Answer 2

Lily Evens died.