Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index April 28 is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 247 days remaining. Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 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 († 1483) 1758 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States († 1831) 1819 - Ezra Abbot, american bible scholar († 1884) 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 († 1978) 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 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 This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.