What Happened on May 28, 1990

• "Dave Thomas Comedy Show" debuts on CBS-TV
• Cesar Gaviria Trujillo installed as president of Colombia
• Eugenia Charles' Dominican Freedom Party wins election in Dominica

• Longest wheelie (David Robilliard with 5h12m33s (Channel Islands)

• Giorgio Manganelli, Italian writer and journalist (Gruppo 63 movement), dies at 67
• Hussein Bin Onn, 1st minister of Malasia (1976-81), dies
• Joseph Hardy, American character actor (Husbands; The Clock), dies at 71
• Julius Eastman, American pianist, vocalist, and minimalist composer (The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc; Gay Guerrilla), dies of cardiac arrest at 49

Holidays: Memorial Day (United States), Spring Bank Holiday (United Kingdom)

• #1 Song: Vogue - Madonna
• #1 Song: Killer - Adamski