28 April History


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  • 357    -    Constantius II visits Rome for the first time.
  • 1282    -    Villagers in Palermo lead a revolt against French rule in Sicily.
  • 1635    -    Virginia Governor John Harvey is accused of treason and removed from office.
  • 1760    -    French forces besieging Quebec defeat the British in the second battle on the Plains of Abraham.
  • 1788    -    Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the constitution.
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  • 1789    -    The crew of the HMS Bounty mutinies against Captain William Bligh.
  • 1818    -    President James Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
  • 1856    -    Yokut Indians repel an attack on their land by 100 would-be Indian fighters in California.
  • 1902    -    Revolution breaks out in the Dominican Republic.
  • 1910    -    The first night air flight is performed by Claude Grahame-White in England.
  • 1916    -    British declare martial law throughout Ireland.
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  • 1919    -    Les Irvin makes the first jump with an Army Air Corps parachute.
  • 1920    -    Azerbaijan joins the Soviet Union.
  • 1930    -    The first organized night baseball game is played in Independence, Kansas.
  • 1932    -    A yellow fever vaccine for humans is announced.
  • 1945    -    Benito Mussolini is killed by Italian partisans.
  • 1946    -    The Allies indict Tojo on 55 counts of war crimes
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  • 1947    -    Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl and five others set out in a balsa wood craft known as Kon Tiki to prove that Peruvian Indians could have settled in Polynesia.
  • 1953    -    French troops evacuate northern Laos.
  • 1965    -    The U.S. Army and Marines invade the Dominican Republic.
  • 1967    -    Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the U.S. Army and is stripped of boxing title.
  • 1969    -    Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France.

  • 28 April Birthdays

  • 1442    -    Edward IV, king of England (1461-1470, 1471-1483), first king of the House of York.
  • 1758    -    James Monroe, fifth President of the United States (1817-1825).
  • 1878    -    Lionel Barrymore, American stage, screen and radio actor.
  • 1892    -    John Jacob Niles, American folk singer and folklorist.
  • 1898    -    William Soutar, Scottish poet.
  • 1902    -    Johan Borgen, Norwegian novelist.
  • 1912    -    Odette Hallowes, British secret agent.
  • 1926    -    Harper Lee, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (To Kill a Mockingbird).
  • 1930    -    James Baker III, Cabinet secretary for Presidents Reagan and Bush.
  • 1936    -    Kenneth White, poet and essayist.
  • 1937    -    Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq.
  • 1937    -    Jean Redpath, Scottish folk singer.