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.

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
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.
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 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

32 - Otho, Roman Emperor
1442 - King Edward IV of England (&dagger 1483)
1758 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (&dagger 1831)
1819 - Ezra Abbot, american bible scholar (&dagger 1884)
1874 - Karl Kraus, journalist and author (&dagger 1936)
1878 - Lionel Barrymore, actor (&dagger 1954)
1889 - Antonio Salazar, dictator of Portugal
1896 - Charlie Rivel, clown (&dagger 1983)
1900 - Bruno Apitz, author (&dagger 1979)
1906 - [[Kurt G�del]], mathematician (&dagger 1978)
1908 - Oskar Schindler, businessman (&dagger 1974)
1922 - Alistair MacLean, author (&dagger 1987)
1923 - Horst-Eberhard Richter, psychoanalyst
1928 - Yves Klein, painter (&dagger 1962)
1930 - James Baker, politician
1937 - Saddam Hussein, former leader of Iraq
1948 - Terry Pratchett, author
1950 - Jay Leno, comedian
1974 - [[Pen�lope 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
Bah&aacute'&iacute Faith - Feast of Jamál (Beauty) - First day of the third month of the Bahá'í Calendar

See Also:

April 27 - April 29 - March 28 - May 28 -- listing of all days

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December