History at A GLANCE

TODAY is Thursday, May 28, the 149th day of 2020. There are 217 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date:

1940 World War II: Belgium surrenders to Nazi Germany to end the Battle of Belgium.

1991 The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.

1995 The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, half of the total population.

1998 Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youme-Takbir annually.

1999 In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.

2002 NATO declares Russia a limited

partner in the Western alliance. 2002 The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars. 2004 The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq’s interim government.

2008 The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.