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1109Apr 28Hugo van Cluny, 6th abbot of Cluny, saint, died.
1202Apr 28King Philip II threw out John-without-Country, from France.
1282Apr 28Villagers in Palermo led a revolt against French rule in Sicily.  
1376Apr 28English parliament demanded the supervision on royal outlay.
1550Apr 28Powers of Dutch inquisition were extended.
1592Apr 28George Villiers, 1st duke of Buckingham, English admiral, was born.
1635Apr 28Virginia Governor John Harvey was accused of treason and removed from office.
1655Apr 28English admiral Blake beat a Tunisian pirate fleet.
1748Apr 28Lorenz Justinian Ott, composer, was born.
1753Apr 28Franz K. Achard, German physicist, was born.
1758Apr 28James Monroe (d.1831), later secretary of state and the fifth president of the United States (1817-1825), was born in Westmoreland County, Va. He created the Monroe Doctrine, warning Europe not to interfere in the Western Hemisphere.
1760Apr 28French forces besieging Quebec defeated the British in the second battle on the Plains of Abraham.
1770Apr 28Marie AC de Camargo (60), Spanish-Italian-Belgian dancer, died.
1788Apr 28Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the US constitution, but on condition that a Bill of Rights be added.
1789Apr 28Fletcher Christian lead a mutiny on the Bounty as the crew of the British ship set Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift in a launch in the South Pacific. Richard Hough later authored: “Captain Bligh and Mr. Christian.”
1799Apr 28Francois Giroust (62), composer, died.
1813Apr 28Russian Gen. Mikhail Ilarionovich Kutuzov (b.1745) died. (April 16 Old Style) Kutuzov forced the French army to leave Russia along the path it had devastated when it entered the country.
1815Apr 28Andrew Jackson Smith (d.1897), Major General (Union volunteers), was born.
1818Apr 28President Monroe proclaimed naval disarmament on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
1826 Apr 28Alexander Stadtfeld, composer, was born.
1848Apr 28The last slaves in French colonies were freed.
1856Apr 28Yokut Indians repelled an attack on their land by 100 would-be Indian fighters in California.
1858Apr 28NYC commissioners approved the “Greensward” plan for Central Park. Frederick Law Olmstead (1822-1903), the recently selected park superintendant, and landscape architect Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan. The park had first opened in 1857, on 770 acres of city owned land. Construction began in 1858 and was completed in 1873. The initial budget for the new park was $1.5 million.
1865Apr 28Giacomo Meyerbeer’s opera “L’Africaine,” premiered in Paris.
1873Apr 28A. Manzoni (88), writer, died. Giuseppi Verdi dedicated his “Requiem” to his memory.
1878Apr 28Lionel Barrymore, American stage, screen and radio actor, was born. He won an Oscar for his role in “A Free Soul.”
1881Apr 28Robert W. Ollinger, US warden, last victim of Billy the Kid, died.
1882Apr 28Alberto Pirelli, Italian industrialist, was born.
1886Apr 28Erich Salomon, German photographer, was born.
1887Apr 28Carl Ferdinand Pohl (67), composer, died.
1889Apr 28Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, premier, dictator of Portugal (1932-68), was born.
1892Apr 28John Jacob Niles, American folk singer and folklorist, was born.
1896Apr 28Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian, died.
1898Apr 28William Soutar, Scottish poet, was born.
1902Apr 28Johan Borgen, Norwegian novelist, was born.
1906Aug 28John Betjeman (d.1984), poet laureate of England (1972-1984), was born.
1908Apr 28In SF a fire began just before midnight at a stable at 475 11th St. 48 horses belonging to F.M. Barrett, a lumber drayman, were killed.
1910Apr 28The first night air flight was performed by Claude Grahame-White in England.
1912Apr 28Odette Hallowes, British secret agent in France, was born. She was later captured and tortured by the Gestapo.
1914Apr 28W.H. Carrier was issued a patent for a method of “dew point control,” crucial to the development of automatic air cooling systems. In 1923 he invented an air-conditioning system powerful enough for installation at movie theaters.
1914Apr 28At Eccles, WV, 181 died in coal mine collapse.
1916Apr 28The British declared martial law throughout Ireland.
1917Apr 28Robert Anderson, writer (Tea & Sympathy, Never Sang for My Father), was born in NY
1918Apr 28Gavrilo Princip (22), Bosnian murderer of arch duke Ferdinand, died in prison of tuberculosis.
1919Apr 28The first jump with an Army Air Corp (rip-cord type) parachute was made by Les Irvin.
1920Apr 28Azerbaijan joined the USSR. The Red Army invaded Azerbaijan and turned the country into a Soviet Republic.
1925Apr 28Kurd rebels surrendered to Turkish army.
1926Apr 28Harper Lee, American novelist, was born. Her 1960 book, “To Kill a Mockingbird” won a Pulitzer.
1930Apr 28James Baker III was born. He became Secretary of Treasury (1985-88) for President Ronald Reagan, and Secretary of State (1989-1992) for President George Bush.
1932Apr 28A yellow fever vaccine for humans was announced.
1934Apr 28FDR signed a Home Owners Loan Act.
1935Apr 28The Moscow 81-km underground opened.
1936Apr 28Kenneth White, poet and essayist, was born.
1937Apr 28Jean Redpath, Scottish folk singer, was born.
1939Apr 28Hitler claimed the German-Polish non-attack treaty to be still in effect.
1940Apr 28Glenn Miller and his orchestra recorded “Pennsylvania 6-5000” for RCA Victor.
1941Apr 28Last British troops in Greece surrendered.
1942Apr 28Nightly “dim-out” began along the East Coast.
1943Apr 28German-Italian forces launched a counter offensive in North-Africa.
1945Apr 28John F. Kennedy, correspondent for the Hearst Newspapers, filed his 1st dispatch on the founding of the UN in San Francisco.
1946Apr 28Allies indicted Hideki Tojo, former premier and war minister of Japan, with 55 counts of war crimes. The International Military Tribunal for the Far East meted out justice to Japanese war criminals at locations throughout Asia.
1947Apr 28Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl (d.2002) and five others sailed from Peru aboard a balsa wood raft named the Kon-Tiki on a 101-day, 4,300 nautical mile journey across the Pacific Ocean to Polynesia. They wanted to prove that Peruvian Indians could have settled in Polynesia. Heyerdahl published “Kon-Tiki” in 1950.
1952Apr 28Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower stepped down to run for President.
1953Apr 28French troops evacuated northern Laos.
1956Apr 28Last French troops left Vietnam.
1958Apr 28The United States conducted the first of 35 nuclear test explosions in the Pacific Proving Ground as part of Operation Hardtack I.
1959Apr 28Organization of American States voted unanimously to send a commission to Panama.
1963Apr 28In the 17th Tony Awards: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum won.
1965Apr 28Barbra Streisand starred on “My Name is Barbra” special on CBS
1967Apr 28Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the Army and was stripped of his boxing title.
1969Apr 28French President Charles de Gaulle resigned his office after a referendum on the reform of the Senate and local government failed. Alain Pohrer (1909-1996), as president of the Senate, then served as interim president for 7 weeks.
1970Apr 28The US invasion of Cambodia took place. Congress and the press learned of the invasion on April 30.
1971Apr 28The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was established within the Dept. of Labor under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, which was passed on Dec 29, 1970. It was formed to protect workers from on-the-job injuries and illnesses.
1974Apr 28A federal jury in New York acquitted former Attorney General John Mitchell and former Commerce Secretary Maurice H. Stans of charges in connection with a secret $200,000 contribution to President Nixon’s re-election campaign from financier Robert Vesco. Vesco had gained control of IOS, a mutual fund firm, and looted hundreds of millions. In 1971 he fled to the Bahamas, then Costa Rica and finally to Cuba where he was convicted in 1996 for economic crimes against the state and sentenced to 13 years in prison.
1975Apr 28Gen. Duong Van Minh was named the interim President of South Vietnam and promised to seek reconciliation with North Vietnam. Saigon fell 2 days later.
1977Apr 28In Italy the Red Brigades assassinated Fulvio Croce, the president of the Turin Bar Association.
1979Apr 28Carlos Muniz Varela, a Cuban travel agent and an activist for Puerto Rico’s independence, was killed in Puerto Rico.
1980Apr 28President Carter accepted the resignation of Secretary of State Cyrus Vance (1917-2002), who had opposed the failed rescue mission aimed at freeing American hostages in Iran. The decision to proceed had been spearheaded by Zbigniev Brzeninski.
1983Apr 28Argentine government declared all 15-30,000 “missing persons” dead from “Dirty War.”
1984Apr 28“La Tragedie de Carmen” closed at Beaumont Theater in NYC after 187 performances.
1986Apr 28The Soviet Union informed the world of the Apr 26 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, saying the accident damaged a reactor and that aid was being rendered to “those affected.”
1987Apr 28Contra rebels in Nicaragua killed Benjamin Ernest Linder (b.1959), an American engineer working on a hydroelectric project for the Sandinista government. In 2001 Joan Kruckewitt authored “The Death of Ben Linder: The Story of a North American in Sandinista Nicaragua.”
1988Apr 28A flight attendant was killed and 61 persons injured when part of the roof of an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 peeled back during a flight from Hilo to Honolulu.
1989Apr 28President Bush announced the U.S. and Japan had concluded a deal on joint development of a new Japanese jet fighter, the FSX, despite concerns that U.S. technology secrets would be given away.
1990Apr 28Anti-abortion demonstrators marched in Washington D.C.; authorities put the number of protesters at 200,000, but organizers claimed a turnout of about 700,000.
1991Apr 28The musical “A Chorus Line” closed after 6,137 performances on Broadway.
1992Apr 28President Bush and Bill Clinton won the Pennsylvania presidential primary.
1993Apr 28The first “Take Our Daughters to Work Day,” promoted by the New York City-based Ms. Foundation, was held to boost self-esteem of girls with invitations to a parent’s workplace.
1994Apr 28Former CIA official Aldrich Ames, who had betrayed U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and then Russia, pleaded guilty to espionage and tax evasion, and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.  His wife Rosario also pleaded guilty.
1995Apr 28In Taegu, South Korea, a gas line exploded in the middle of an intersection crowded with morning traffic, killing 101 people.
1996Apr 28President Clinton gave 4 1/2 hours of videotaped testimony as a defense witness in the criminal trial of his former Whitewater business partners.
1997Apr 28“Jekyll & Hyde” opened at Plymouth Theater NYC.
1998Apr 28The US Senate opened a new round of hearings on alleged abuse and mismanagement at the Internal Revenue Service.
1999Apr 28The US announced that it would allow US firms to sell food and medicine to Iran, Sudan and Libya.
2000Apr 28In a sharp repudiation of President Clinton’s policies, the House rejected, on a tie vote of 213-to-213, a measure expressing support for NATO’s five-week-old air campaign against Yugoslavia; the House also voted 249-to-180 to limit the president’s authority to use ground forces in Yugoslavia.
2001Apr 28It was reported that the CIA had released some 10,000 pages of documents on 20 Nazis that included Hitler, Eichmann, Mengele, Barbie, Mueller, Waldheim and Hoettl.
2002Apr 28US Sec. of Defense Rumsfeld visited Pres. Niyazov in Turkmenistan and Pres. Nazarbayev in Kazakhstan.
2003Apr 28The US moved an air operation center from Saudi Arabia to Qatar.
2004Apr 28The US monetary policy subcommittee approved a bill to put the faces of US presidents on new dollar coins.
2005Apr 28Pres. Bush endorsed changes to Social Security that would cut benefits for future middle-class and wealthy retirees, while raising retirement checks for the poor.
2006Apr 28President George W. Bush approved Dubai’s $1.24 billion takeover of Doncasters, a British engineering company with US plants that supply the Pentagon.
2007Apr 28Actors and musicians including Elton John, George Clooney, Bob Geldof and Mick Jagger called on world leaders to take “decisive action” over atrocities in Darfur. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi urged African, Arab and Western diplomats to work with Sudanese rebels to find an immediate solution to the crisis in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region.
2008Apr 28The US Supreme Court upheld Indian’s voter-ID law, passed in 2005. It ruled that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights, validating Republican-inspired voter ID laws.
2009Apr 28World health officials raised a global alert to an unprecedented level as swine flu was blamed for more deaths in Mexico and the epidemic crossed new borders, with the first cases confirmed in the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific regions.
2010Apr 28The US Supreme Court refused to order the removal of a cross from the Mohave National Preserve in southern California. Veterans of Foreign Wars had placed a cross there in 1934 to honor soldiers killed in WWI. The first wooden cross was later replaced by a metal cross, which was around May 9-10, 2010.
2011Apr 28Pres. Obama declared a major disaster in Alabama. Declarations for Mississippi followed on Apr 29, Georgia on Apr 30, and soon followed for Tennessee and Arkansas.
2012Apr 28US officials said that $147 million in aid programs to Palestinians has been restored. The money had been frozen as a penalty for a Palestinian UN membership bid.
2013Apr 28A New York Times report, citing current and former advisers to Afghan Pres. Karzai, said tens of millions of US dollars in cash were delivered by the CIA in suitcases, backpacks and plastic shopping bags to the office of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai for more than a decade.
2014Apr 28The US signed a new 10-year military pact with the Philippines granting a larger presence for US forces. Pres. Obama said it would bolster the Southeast Asian country’s maritime security, but was not aimed at countering China’s growing military might.
Source: Timelines of History     

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