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May 28th, 2008 | Event | The first meet of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a Federal Democratic Republic ending the reign of 450 year old Shah Dynasty that ruled the Unified Nepal for 240 years. |
May 28th, 2004 | Event | The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, to become prime minister of Iraq s interim government. |
May 28th, 2003 | Event | Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct. |
May 28th, 2002 | Event | NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance. |
May 28th, 1999 | Event | In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci s masterpiece "The Last Supper" is put back on display. |
May 28th, 1999 | Event | Two Swedish police officers are murdered with their own fire arms by the bank robbers Jackie Arklov and Tony Olsson after a dramatic car chase. |
May 28th, 1998 | Event | Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of Indian nuclear tests with five of its own, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. |
May 28th, 1996 | Event | U.S. President Bill Clinton s former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud. |
May 28th, 1995 | Event | The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, ? of total population. |
May 28th, 1991 | Event | 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. |
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