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1109Apr 28Hugo van Cluny, 6th abbot of Cluny, saint, died.
1760Apr 28French forces besieging Quebec defeated the British in the second battle on the Plains of Abraham.
1818Apr 28President Monroe proclaimed naval disarmament on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
1865Apr 28Giacomo Meyerbeer’s opera “L’Africaine,” premiered in Paris.
1906Apr 28Bartholomeus J “Bart” Bok, Dutch-US astronomer (Milky Way), was born.
1916Apr 28The British declared martial law throughout Ireland.
1934Apr 28FDR signed a Home Owners Loan Act.
1940Apr 28Rudolf Hoess became commandant of concentration camp Auschwitz.
1942Apr 28Nightly “dim-out” began along the East Coast.
1943Apr 28German-Italian forces launched a counter offensive in North-Africa.
1953Apr 28French troops evacuated northern Laos.
1956Apr 28Last French troops left Vietnam.
1958Apr 28Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, began a goodwill tour of Latin America that was marred by hostile mobs in Lima, Peru, and Caracas, Venezuela.
1965Apr 28Barbra Streisand starred on “My Name is Barbra” special on CBS.
1970Apr 28The US invasion of Cambodia took place. Congress and the press learned of the invasion onApril 30.
1977Apr 28US regulations implementing Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act were signed. Americans with physical disabilities had begun staging protests at federal buildings in San Francisco, LA and Washington DC. The SF protest grew to 150 people and lasted 25 days
1984Apr 28“La Tragedie de Carmen” closed at Beaumont Theater in NYC after 187 performances.
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.
1991Apr 28Anti-abortion demonstrators marched in Washington DC; authorities put the number of protesters at 200,000, but organizers claimed a turnout of about 700,000.
1992Apr 28The US Agriculture Department unveiled its pyramid-shaped recommended-diet chart that had cost nearly $1 million to develop.
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.
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 House voted 249-180 that congressional approval would be required to send troops to Yugoslavia. A Democratic resolution supporting NATO air strikes tied 213-213.
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 28Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry was emphatic at a hastily called news conference that a new leak was discharging 5,000 barrels a day of sweet crude, not the 1,000 barrels officials had estimated for days since the Deepwater Horizons drilling rig exploded and sank 50 miles off the Louisiana Coast. Shrimpers in Louisiana filed a class-action lawsuit against oil giant BP Plc and owners of the drilling platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, as claims for economic losses anticipated from the disaster began to mount.
2011Apr 28Arizona Gov. Jan brewer signed a bill designating the colt Single-Action Army revolver as the state’s first official firearm. Brewer also signed a bill authorizing the construction of a fence along the state’s portion of the US-Mexico border, either with other states or by itself. He also signed a bill approving special new license plates, including a “Don’t Tread On Me” slogan to commemorate the Tea Party.
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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