TODAY IN HISTORY - 5/28:

1946 - 1st night game at Yankee stadium
1974 - 26th Emmy Awards: MASH, Alan Alda & Mary Tyler Moore win
1995 - Indianapolis 500: Jacques Villeneuve wins in 3:15:17.561 (247.221 km/h)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY / ANNIVERSARY TO:

1977 - Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American television panelist (The View)
1989 - Delta Burke (Designing Women) weds Gerald McRaney (Major Dad)
2011 - Former American beauty queen Candice Crawford (24) weds Dallas Cowboys football quarterback Tony Romo (31) at Arlington Hall in Dallas, Texas

GOODBYE TO:

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1998 - Phil Hartman, Canadian actor and comedian, murdered by his wife in his sleep at 49
2010 - Gary Coleman, American actor (b. 1968)
2014 - Maya Angelou [Marguerite Johnson], American author ("I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"), poet and actress (Nyo-Roots), dies at 86

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