April 28
April 28 is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 247 days remaining.
Events
1253 - Nichiren , a Japanese Buddhist monk, declares his attention to preach the Lotus Sutra and Nam Myoho Renge Kyo Nichiren Buddhism .
1788 - Maryland becomes the 7th state to ratify the Constitution of the United States .
1789 - Mutiny on the HMAV 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 dead by members of the Italian resistance movement while trying to flee Italy .
1947 - Thor Heyerdahl and five crewmates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki 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 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', 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 launches, selling 1 million songs in its first week.
2005 - The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) enters into force.
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 - António de Oliveira Salazar , dictator of Portugal (d. 1970 )
1896 - Charlie Rivel , clown (d. 1983 )
1900 - Bruno Apitz , author (d. 1979 )
1906 - Kurt Gödel , 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
1958 - Hal Sutton , American golfer
1966 - John Daly , American golfer
1974 - Penélope 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 )
1853 - Ludwig Tieck , German writer (b. 1773 )
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
External links
April 27 - April 29 - March 28 - May 28 -- listing of all days
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