Today is Monday, May 28th, the 148th day of 2001. There are 217 days left in the year. This is the Memorial Day observance. Today's Highlight in History: On May 28th, 1972, the Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the English throne to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, died in Paris at age 77. On this date: In 1533, England's Archbishop declared the marriage of King Henry the Eighth to Anne Boleyn valid. In 1863, the first black regiment from the North left Boston to fight in the Civil War. In 1892, the Sierra Club was organized in San Francisco. In 1934, the Dionne quintuplets -- Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne -- were born to Elzire Dionne at the family farm in Ontario, Canada. In 1937, Neville Chamberlain became prime minister of Britain. In 1940, during World War Two, the Belgian army surrendered to invading German forces. In 1977, 165 people were killed when fire raced through the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky. In 1984, President Reagan led a state funeral at Arlington National Cemetery for an unidentified American soldier killed in the Vietnam War. (However, the remains were later identified as those of Air Force First Lieutenant Michael J. Blassie, and were sent to St. Louis for hometown burial.) In 1985, David Jacobsen, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, was abducted by pro-Iranian kidnappers (he was freed 17 months later). In 1987, Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square. Ten years ago: Ethiopian rebels seized control of the capital of Addis Ababa, a week after the country's longtime Marxist ruler, Mengistu Haile Mariam, resigned his post and fled. US Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and other NATO defense chiefs agreed to create a rapid reaction corps as part of a broad plan to reshape the Western alliance in the post-Cold War era. Five years ago: President Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James and Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, were convicted of fraud. One year ago: President Alberto Fujimori of Peru won a lopsided re-election victory in a runoff vote that had been boycotted by his opponent. Juan Montoya won the 84th Indianapolis 500, becoming the first rookie champion since Graham Hill in 1966. Today's Birthdays: Actress Carroll Baker is 70. Actor John Karlen is 68. Basketball Hall-of-Famer Jerry West is 63. Singer Gladys Knight is 57. Singer Billy Vera is 57. Singer John Fogerty is 56. Country singer Gary Stewart is 56. Actress-director Sondra Locke is 54. Singer Roland Gift is 39. Actor Brandon Cruz (TV series "The Courtship of Eddie's Father") is 39. Rapper Chubb Rock is 33. Singer Kylie Minogue is 33. Actor Glenn Quinn ("Angel") is 31. Actor Joseph Cross is 15. "The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner." -- Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (1903-1968). (Copyright 2001 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)