Reuters historical calendar - May 28

LONDON, May 27 (Reuters) Following are some major events to have occurred on May 28 since 1900: 1929 - ''On With The Show'', the first ever full-length film with both sound and colour, was shown in New York.

1940 - Belgium's King Leopold surrendered to the invading Germans in World War Two. On the same day, evacuation of defeated Allied armies from Dunkirk began. By its completion on June 2, a total of 224,585 British and 112,546 French and Belgian troops were saved.

1972 - The Duke of Windsor, Britain's former King Edward VIII, died in Paris. He had abdicated in 1936 in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.

1981 - Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, Poland's Roman Catholic primate and opponent of Warsaw's Communist authorities, died.

1987 - Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German, flew his light plane from Helsinki to Moscow, passing through Soviet airspace unchallenged and eventually landing in Red Square.

1991 - Rebel tanks blasted their way into Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa at dawn, toppling the remnants of a Marxist government whose 17-year rule had brought war and famine.

1995 - Russia's worst recorded earthquake killed 1,989 people in the far east oil-producing town of Neftegorsk, on Sakhalin Island.

It measured 7.5 on the Richter scale.

1997 - Russia and Ukraine signed agreements giving Russia the right to base its part of the ex-Soviet Black Sea Fleet at Sevastopol on Ukraine's Crimea peninsula for 20 years.

1998 - Pakistan officially became a nuclear power by conducting five nuclear test blasts.

1999 - Polish police removed hundreds of crosses from outside Auschwitz, ending an 11-month protest by radical Roman Catholics that badly damaged relations with Jewish groups.

2001 - Soldiers attacked the home of Central African Republic President Ange Felix Patasse in an apparent coup attempt that failed but left at least 12 people dead.

2002 - NATO and Russia launched a new forum for security cooperation, with Russia sitting as an equal alongside the 19 NATO allies in the NATO-Russia Council.

2002 - Vodafone Group Plc reported a 13.5 billion pound (.6 billion) pre-tax loss -- the UK's largest corporate loss ever amounting to 37 million pounds a day.

2004 - A Chilean appeals court withdrew legal immunity from former dictator Augusto Pinochet in a move clearing the way for his possible trial on human rights charges.

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