On this day — May 28

the first Japanese and Asian driver to do so. Double world champion Fernando Alonso retires from an engine issue in his first entry of the event.

is shot to death after grabbing a three-year-old boy in his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, resulting in widespread criticism and sparking various internet memes.

the proposal was approved by 53% of voters, resulting in a law allowing divorce under certain conditions being enacted later in the year.

India, the Jnaneswari Express train derailment and subsequent collision kills 148 passengers.

ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.

a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.

Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.

after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.

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 Youm-e-Takbir annually.

Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas, Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.

ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.