April 28
is the 118th day of the year (119th in
leap years) in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 247 days remaining.
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1192 -
Assassination of
Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I),
King of Jerusalem, in
Tyre, only days after his title to the
throne is confirmed by election. The killing is carried out by
Hashshashin.
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1253 -
Nichiren, a
Japanese
Buddhist monk, propounds
Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the first time and declares it to be the essence of
Buddhism, in effect founding
Nichiren Buddhism.
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1788 -
Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the
Constitution of the United States.
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1789 -
Mutiny on the
HMS Bounty.
Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to
Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for
Pitcairn Island.
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1796 - The
Armistice of Cherasco is signed by
Napoleon Bonaparte and
Vittorio Amedeo III, the
King of Sardinia, expanding
French territory along the
Mediterranean coast.
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1862 -
American Civil War:
Admiral David Farragut captures
New Orleans, Louisiana.
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1920 -
Azerbaijan is added to the
Soviet Union.
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1930 - The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in
Independence, Kansas.
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1932 - A
vaccine for
yellow fever is announced for use on
humans.
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1945 -
Benito Mussolini and his mistress
Clara Petacci are executed by members of the
Italian resistance movement.
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1947 -
Thor Heyerdahl and five crewmates set out from
Peru on the
Kon-Tiki to prove that
Peruvian natives could have settled
Polynesia.
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1950 -
King of Thailand,
Bhumibol Adulyadej, got married with his queen,
Queen Sirikit, after their quiet engagement in
Lausanne,
Switzerland on
July 19,
1949.
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1952 -
Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as
Supreme Commander of
NATO.
* 1952 -
Occupied Japan: The
United States occupation of
Japan ends.
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1965 -
United States troops land in the
Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a
Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate
U.S. citizens.
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1967 -
Expo 67 opens in
Montréal,
Québec,
Canada.
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1969 -
Charles de Gaulle resigns as
President of France.
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1970 -
Vietnam War:
U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes
American combat troops to fight
communist sanctuaries in
Cambodia.
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1977 - The
Red Army Faction trial ends, with
Andreas Baader,
Gudrun Ensslin and
Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of
murder and more than 30 counts of
attempted murder.
* 1977 - The
Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.
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1978 -
President of Afghanistan Mohammed Daoud Khan is overthrown and
assassinated in a
coup led by pro-
communist rebels.
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1981 -
Galician current
Statute of Autonomy.
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1986 -
United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered
aircraft carrier to transit the
Suez Canal, navigating from the
Red Sea to the
Mediterranean Sea to relieve
USS Coral Sea, on station across the
"Line of Death" in the
Gulf of Sidra off the coast of
Libya. The transit began at 0300 and lasted 12 hours.
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1987 -
U.S. engineer
Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded
Contras in northern
Nicaragua.
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1988 - Near
Maui, Hawaii, a
flight attendant is sucked out of
Aloha Flight 243, a
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.
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1994 - Former
Central Intelligence Agency official Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving
U.S. secrets to the
Soviet Union and later
Russia.
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1996 -
Whitewater scandal:
President Bill Clinton gives 4 1/2 hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
* 1996 -
Port Arthur massacre:
Martin Bryant kills 35 people and wounds another 18 in
Tasmania,
Australia.
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1997 - The
1993 Chemical Weapons Convention goes into effect.
Russia,
Iraq and
North Korea were notable nations who had not ratified the treaty.
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2001 -
Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first
space tourist.
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2003 -
Apple Computer's
iTunes Music Store launches, selling 1 million songs in its first week.
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2005 - The
Patent Law Treaty goes into effect.
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1442 - King
Edward IV of England (d.
1483)
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1545 -
Yi Sun-sin, Korean admiral (d.
1598)
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1630 -
Charles Cotton, English poet (d.
1687)
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1686 -
Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d.
1721)
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1715 -
Franz Sparry, composer (d.
1767)
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1758 -
James Monroe, 5th
President of the United States (d.
1831)
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1819 -
Ezra Abbot, American Bible scholar (d.
1884)
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1838 -
Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist,
Nobel laureate (d.
1913)
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1868 -
Lucy Booth, the fifth daughter of
William and
Catherine Booth (d.
1953)
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1874 -
Karl Kraus, Austrian journalist and author (d.
1936)
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1878 -
Lionel Barrymore, American actor (d.
1954)
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1886 -
Äžabdulla Tuqay, Russian poet (d.
1913)
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1889 -
António de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal (d.
1970)
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1900 -
Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer (d.
1992)
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1903 -
Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (d.
1979)
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1906 -
Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (d.
1978)
* 1906 -
Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (d.
1999)
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1908 -
Oskar Schindler, Austrian businessman (d.
1974)
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1912 -
Odette Sansom, French resistance worker (d.
1995)
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1916 -
Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (d.
1993)
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1921 -
Rowland Evans, American journalist (d.
2001)
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1924 -
Kenneth Kaunda,
President of Zambia*
1926 -
Harper Lee, American author
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1928 -
Yves Klein, French painter (d.
1962)
* 1928 -
Eugene M. Shoemaker, American planetary scientist (d.
1997)
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1930 -
James Baker, American politician
* 1930 -
Carolyn Jones, American actress (d.
1983)
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1937 -
Saddam Hussein, former leader of Iraq
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1938 -
Madge Sinclair, Jamaican actress (d.
1995)
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1941 -
Ann-Margret, Swedish-born actress
* 1941 -
K. Barry Sharpless, American chemist,
Nobel laureate * 1941 -
Lucien Aimar, French cyclist
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1943 -
Jacques Dutronc, French singer and actor
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1944 -
Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe, Belgian politician
*1944 -
Alice Waters, American chef
*
1948 -
Terry Pratchett, English author
* 1948 -
Marcia Strassman, American actress
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1949 -
Indian Larry, American stuntsman
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1950 -
Jay Leno, American comedian and television host
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1952 -
Mary McDonnell, American actress
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1953 -
Kim Gordon, American musician (
Sonic Youth)
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1955 -
Paul Guilfoyle, American actor
* 1955 -
Nicky Gumbel, British author and priest
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1956 -
Jimmy Barnes, Scottish-born singer
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1957 -
Wilma Landkroon, Dutch singer
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1958 -
Hal Sutton, American golfer
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1960 -
John Cerutti, baseball player and announcer (d.
2004)
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1964 -
Barry Larkin, Baseball player
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1966 -
John Daly, American golfer
* 1966 -
Too $hort, American rapper
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1968 -
Daisy Berkowitz, American musician (
Marilyn Manson)
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1970 -
Nicklas Lidström, Swedish hockey player
* 1970 -
Diego Simeone, Argentine footballer
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1973 -
Elisabeth Röhm, American actress
* 1973 -
Jorge Garcia, American actor
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1974 -
Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress
* 1974 -
Richel Hersisia, Dutch boxer
* 1974 -
Vernon Kay, British TV/radio presenter
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1980 -
Josh Howard, Basketball player (
Dallas Mavericks)
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1981 -
Jessica Alba, American actress
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1192 -
Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I),
King of Jerusalem (b. mid
1140s), fatally stabbed by
Hashshashin at
Tyre.
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1498 -
Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, English politician (killed in battle)
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1533 -
Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (b.
1461)
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1695 -
Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet (b.
1621)
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1710 -
Thomas Betterton, English actor
*
1726 -
Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (b.
1653)
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1772 -
Johann Friedrich Struensee, physician of
Christian VII of Denmark (b.
1737)
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1781 -
Cornelius Harnett, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b.
1723)
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1813 -
Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (b.
1745)
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1816 -
Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher (b.
1862)
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1841 -
Peter Chanel, French saint (b.
1803)
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1853 -
Ludwig Tieck, German writer (b.
1773)
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1858 -
Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (b.
1801)
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1905 -
Fitzhugh Lee, American Confederate general (b.
1835)
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1926 -
Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (b.
1857)
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1936 - King
Fuad I of Egypt (b.
1868)
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1944 -
Frank Knox, Former Secretary of the Navy and vice presidential candidate (b.
1874)
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1945 -
Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist dictator (b.
1882)
* 1945 -
Clara Petacci, Italian mistress of
Benito Mussolini (shot) (b.
1912)
* 1945 -
Roberto Farinacci, Italian fascist (b.
1892)
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1954 -
Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1879)
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1973 -
Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (b.
1893)
*
1978 -
Sardar Mohammed Daoud,
President of Afghanistan (shot) (b.
1909)
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1992 -
Francis Bacon, Anglo-Irish painter (b.
1909)
* 1992 -
Iceberg Slim, American writer (b.
1918)
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1993 -
Jim Valvano, American basketball coach (b.
1946)
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1999 -
Rory Calhoun, American actor (b.
1922)
* 1999 -
Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1921)
*1999 - Sir
Alf Ramsey, English football manager, World Cup winning manager
1966*
2000 -
Penelope Fitzgerald, English writer (b.
1916)
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2002 -
Alexander Lebed, Russian general (b.
1950)
* 2002 -
Lou Thesz, American wrestler (b.
1916)
*
2005 -
Chris Candido, professional wrestler (b.
1972)
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Roman Empire - first day of the
Floralia in honor of
Flora.
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Bahá'à Faith - Feast of
Jamál (
Beauty) - First day of the third month of the
Bahá'à Calendar.
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National Day of Mourning in
Canada to commemorate workers killed, injured, or suffering illness due to occupational hazards and accidents.
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World Day for Safety and Health at Work, which developed from the Canadian observance.
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Arbor Day - legal state holiday in
Nebraska,
USA.
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Feast day of the following
saints in the
Roman Catholic Church:
**
Saints Theodora and Didymus**
Arthemius**
Saints Vitalis and Valeria**
Patritius**
Luchesius**
Louis Marie Grignon of Montfort**
Peter Chanel*National Heroes Day - public holiday in
Barbados in honor of men and women who played a significant role in the island nation's history, such as
Sir Garfield Sobers.
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Workers Memorial Day - International Workers Memorial Day
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