On This Day
28 May
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1883 Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian politician, activist, and writer, was born. He developed the Hindu nationalist political ideology of Hindutva while imprisoned at Ratnagiri in 1922.
- 1946 K Satchidanandan, poet and critic, writing in Malayalam and English, was born. A pioneer of modern poetry in Malayalam, a bilingual literary critic, playwright, editor, columnist and translator, he is the former editor of Indian Literature journal and the former secretary of Sahitya Akademi.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1843 Noah Webster, American lexicographer known for his American Spelling Book and his American Dictionary of the English Language, died.
- 1849 Anne Brontë, English novelist and poet, and the youngest member of the Brontë literary family, died.
- 1908 Ian Fleming, author of James Bond novels, was born in Mayfair, London. He also wrote the children’s book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1964).
- 1961 Amnesty International, one of the world's most influential human rights organizations, was founded.
- 2014 Maya Angelou, American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist, died.
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