Daily Calendar - May 28

The 148th day of the year, 217 days left until the New Year.

Church Calendar

Venerable David Garejeli and his disciple, the venerable Lucianes (VI-VII); Father David in Tbilisi; Venerable Damian, the former king Demetrius, the Garejeli, the one who said "You are the vineyard" (1157); Saint John I, Archbishop of Mtskheta and All Iberia (IV); Venerable Pyrrhus of Bretelia (VI)**; Venerable Pachum the Great, of the Thebaid (348); Achille, Bishop of Larissa (330).

Born:

1738 — Joseph Guillotin, French physician, inventor of the guillotine. Died in 1814.

1803 — Prosper Mérimée, French writer. Died 1870.

1805 _ Solomon Dodashvili, philosopher. Died 1836.

1876 _ Iakob Nikoladze, sculptor. Died 1951.

1904 — Shalva Mshvelidze, composer, musicologist. Died 1985.

1912 — Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate. Died 1990.

1934 — Lia Eliava, film actress. Died 1998.

1937 _ Gia Chubabria, film director.

Died:

1805 — Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini, Italian composer.

1910 — Kálmán Miksát, Hungarian writer.

1914 - Kote Meskhi, Georgian actor and director.

1972 — Edward VIII, King of England from 20 January to 10 December 1936. He abdicated to marry the American Wallis Warfield-Simpson. After his abdication, he was styled Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor.

Events:

1812 _ The Treaty of Bucharest was signed between Russia and the Ottoman Empire. Russia returned the fortresses of Anapa, Poti and Akhalkalaki to Turkey, while retaining Imereti, Samegrelo, Guria and Abkhazia under its governorate.

1918 — Armenia and Azerbaijan declared their independence.

1991 — The last RSD-10 medium-range missile launcher was destroyed.

1995 — An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale occurred in Sakhalin.

2024 — The Georgian Parliament overcame the presidential veto on the law "On Transparency of Foreign Influence".

Memorable days:

Border Guard Day

Armenia _ Day of the First Republic

Great Britain _ Spring Festival

USA _ Memorial Day