#3 May 28 in history #shorts #dailyhistory

daily history, May 28.

May 28, 585 BC: Solar eclipse ended 6 year war between the Medes and Lydians, as the battle is interrupted by eclipse and later they signed a peace treaty.

May 28, 1889: Édouard and André Michelin established the Michelin tyre company.

May 28, 1918: the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic falls.

May 28, 1918: Azerbaijan gains independence and declared itself a Democratic Republic, which later in 1920 became part of USSR.

May 28, 1918: The Armenian National Council declares Armenia independent, first Armenian republica formed, which in 1920 became part of USSR.

May 28, 1930: Bhagwati Charan Vohra, the revolutionary freedom fighter and a peer of Bhagat Singh, died while testing a bomb by the banks of river Ravi in Lahore.

May 28, 1937: German automobile giant Volkswagen was founded.

May 28, 1948: Israeli Air Force is officially founded shortly after the start of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

May 28, 1952: The women of Greece are given the right to vote.

May 28, 1975: Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was established by treaty of Lagos.