April 28

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

Events

• 1686 - Isaac Newton's volume no. 1 of his Principia Mathematica is published for the first time.
• 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.
• 1932 - A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.
• 1945 - Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci[?] were 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 - 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
• 1977 - The Baader-Meinhof Gang 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[?]
• 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 plan's cabin area rips off in mid-flight. Metal fatigue is later found to be the cause of the failure.
• 1994 - Former Central Intelligence Agency official Aldrich Ames and pleads guilty to giving US secretes to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
• 1996 - Whitewater: President Bill Clinton gives 4 1/2 hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
• 1997 - The 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention[?], signed in Paris in January 1993, goes into effect.Russia, Iraq, North Korea were notable nations who had not ratified the treaty.

Births

• 32 - Otho, Roman Emperor
• 1442 - King Edward IV of England (+ 1483)
• 1758 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (+ 1831)
• 1874 - Karl Kraus[?], journalist and author (+ 1936)
• 1878 - Lionel Barrymore, actor (+ 1954)
• 1889 - Antonio Salazar[?], dictator of Portugal
• 1896 - Charlie Rivel[?], clown (+ 1983)
• 1900 - Bruno Apitz[?], author (+ 1979)
• 1906 - Kurt Gödel, mathematician
• 1908 - Oskar Schindler, businessman (+ 1974)
• 1922 - Alistair MacLean, author (+ 1987)
• 1923 - Horst-Eberhard Richter[?], psychoanalyst
• 1928 - Yves Klein, painter (+ 1962)
• 1930 - James Baker, politician
• 1937 - Saddam Hussein, former leader of Iraq
• 1948 - Terry Pratchett, author
• 1950 - Jay Leno, comedian
• 1974 - Penélope Cruz, actress

Deaths

• 1905 - Fitzhugh Lee[?], Confederate general
• 1926 - Zip the Pinhead, born William Henry Johnson, of natural causes
• 1945 - Benito Mussolini Il Duce and Clara Petacci[?], shot, hanged upside down, mutilated
• 1992 - Francis Bacon, artist.
• 2002 - Alexander Lebed[?] - Russian General
• 2002 - Ruth Handler - inventor of the Barbie Doll

Holidays and observances

• Roman Empire - first day of the Floralia[?] in honor of Flora
• Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Jamál (Beauty) - First day of the third month of the Bahá'í Calendar

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