Historical events on May 28 and 29

On May 28 and 29, several significant historical milestones occurred across the globe. On May 28, 1940, King Leopold of Belgium surrendered to German forces, coinciding with the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk. In 1991, rebel forces captured Addis Ababa, ending Marxist rule in Ethiopia. In 1995, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck Neftegorsk, Russia, resulting in 1,989 fatalities. On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay achieved the first successful summit of Mount Everest. The Heysel stadium disaster in 1985 claimed the lives of 39 football fans during the European Cup Final. Politically, Zimbabwe Rhodesia inaugurated its first black prime minister in 1979, and the NATO-Russia Council was established in 2002. Furthermore, in 1999, the Space Shuttle Discovery achieved the first docking with the International Space Station.