Portal:Current events/2006 May 28
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May 28, 2006 (Sunday)
- The body of Canadian diplomat Lewis Brooke Miskell is found in Naples, Italy, three months after his disappearance. (Globe and Mail)
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley, a film by British director Ken Loach, is awarded the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
- Comoros volcano Mount Karthala erupts. (Washington Post) Archived 2012-10-24 at the Wayback Machine
- Barry Bonds hits his 715th home run against the Colorado Rockies, passing Babe Ruth to move into second place on the list of all-time home run hitters. (ABC News)
- Sam Hornish, Jr. wins the 90th Indianapolis 500 in the second-closest finish in race history.
- President Alvaro Uribe gets reelected in a landslide in the Colombian presidential election, 2006, winning 62.2% of the votes in a landslide. This is the first time a Colombian President gets reelected in more than a century. He will serve another 4-year term.