April 28

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April 28 is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 247 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

Events

1788 - Maryland becomes the 7th state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
1789 - Mutiny on the HMS Bounty. Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors set adrift and rebel crew sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
1862 - American Civil War: Admiral David Farragut captures New Orleans, Louisiana.
1920 - Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.
1930 - The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.
1932 - A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.
1937 - The Museum of Costume Arts opens in New York City.
1945 - Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are shot to death while trying to flee Italy.
1947 - Thor Heyerdahl and five crewmates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
1952 - Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NATO in order to run for President of the United States.
1952 - Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends.
1965 - United States troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate Americans.
1969 - Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
1970 - Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
1977 - The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe being found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
1978 - Afghanistan President Mohammed Daoud Khan is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by procommunist rebels.
1987 - The 27-year old American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by US-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua. His death sets off a fierce debate in the United States.
1988 - Near Maui, Hawaii a flight attendant is sucked out of an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 and falls to her death when an upper part of the plane's cabin area rips off in mid-flight. Metal fatigue is later found to be the cause of the failure.
1990 - After 6,237 performances, the Broadway musical A Chorus Line closes.
1994 - Former Central Intelligence Agency official Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving US secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
1996 - Whitewater scandal: President Bill Clinton gives 4 1/2 hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
1996 - The world's worst 'spree killer' of all time, Martin Bryant, kills 35 people, and wounds another 18 at the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, Australia.
1997 - The 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention, signed in Paris in January 1993, goes into effect. Russia, Iraq and North Korea were notable nations who had not ratified the treaty.
2003 - Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store released, sells 1,000,000 songs in first week.

Births

1442 - King Edward IV of England (d. 1483)
1758 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (d. 1831)
1810 - Daniel Ullmann, general (d. 1892)
1819 - Ezra Abbot, american bible scholar (d. 1884)
1874 - Karl Kraus, journalist and author (d. 1936)
1878 - Lionel Barrymore, actor (d. 1954)
1886 - Ğabdulla Tuqay, poet (d. 1913)
1889 - Ant�nio de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal (d. 1970)
1896 - Charlie Rivel, clown (d. 1983)
1900 - Bruno Apitz, author (d. 1979)
1906 - Kurt G�del, mathematician (d. 1978)
1908 - Oskar Schindler, businessman (d. 1974)
1923 - Horst-Eberhard Richter, psychoanalyst
1928 - Yves Klein, painter (d. 1962)
1928 - Eugene M. Shoemaker, planetary scientist (d. 1997)
1930 - James Baker, politician
1937 - Saddam Hussein, former leader of Iraq
1941 - Ann-Margret, actress
1948 - Terry Pratchett, author
1950 - Jay Leno, comedian
1952 - Mark Sparks, emergency manager
1958 - Hal Sutton, American golfer
1966 - John Daly, American golfer
1974 - Pen�lope Cruz, actress
1981 - Jessica Alba, actress

Deaths

1772 - Johann Friedrich Struensee, royal physician of Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1737)
1813 - Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal, (b. 1745)
1905 - Fitzhugh Lee, Confederate general
1926 - Zip the Pinhead, born William Henry Johnson (b. 1857)
1945 - Benito Mussolini Il Duce and Clara Petacci, shot, hanged upside down, mutilated
1978 - Sardar Mohammed Daoud, President of Afghanistan (b. 1909)
1992 - Francis Bacon, artist (b. 1909)
2000 - Penelope Fitzgerald, writer (b. 1916)
2002 - Alexander Lebed, Russian General (b. 1950)
2002 - Ruth Handler, inventor of the Barbie Doll (b. 1916)

Holidays and observances

Roman Empire - first day of the Floralia in honor of Flora
Bah�'� Faith - Feast of Jam�l (Beauty) - First day of the third month of the Bah�'� Calendar

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