May 28th, 1961
Peter Benenson s article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International. event on May 28, 1961. Read about how to open files in Open File Database.
Events around May 28, 1961
| May 30th, 1961 | Death | Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic (born in 1891) |
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