What happend on 28th May

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2000

The volcano Mount Cameroon erupts.

1999

In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo de Vinci's newly-restored masterpiece "The Last Supper" is put back on display.

1998

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.

1995

The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, 2/3 of total population.

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.

1987

A robot probe finds the wreckage of the USS Monitor near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

1987

19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in Red Square in Moscow. He is immediately detained and is not released until August 3, 1988.

1982

Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.

1978

Second round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta. Elections wonm by incumbent Sangoulé Lamizana.

1977

In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.