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History Events on April 28

By  Chad Boise  28 Apr   78 Views

History Events on April 28

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Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius.

#Constantius_II

In 357

Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.

#Charles_de_Gaulle

In 1969

The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as one of the first European battles in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.

#Battle_of_Cerignola

In 1503

The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.

#Red_Army_Faction

In 1977

Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.

#Billy_the_Kid

In 1881

Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.

#Wembley_Stadium_(1923)

In 1923

The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.

#Treaty_of_Paris_(1796)

In 1796

Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.

#Maui

In 1988

The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea.

#Aircraft_carrier

In 1986

The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.

#Treaty_of_Taipei

In 1952

Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are shot dead by Walter Audisio, a member of the Italian resistance movement.

#Benito_Mussolini

In 1945

The Treaty of San Francisco comes into effect, restoring Japanese sovereignty and ending its state of war with most of the Allies of World War II.

#Treaty_of_San_Francisco

In 1952

Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people and wounding 23 others.

#Port_Arthur_massacre_(Australia)

In 1996

World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.

#World_War_II

In 1944

Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.

#Thor_Heyerdahl

In 1947

President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.

#President_of_Afghanistan

In 1978

Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.

#Central_Intelligence_Agency

In 1994

The Ustaše massacre nearly 200 Serbs in the village of Gudovac, the first massacre of their genocidal campaign against Serbs of the Independent State of Croatia.

#Ustaše

In 1941

Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.

#Azerbaijan

In 1920

Vietnam War: Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses his induction into the United States Army and is subsequently stripped of his championship and license.

#Vietnam_War

In 1967

Sardinians, headed by Giovanni Maria Angioy, start a revolution against Savoy domination, expelling Viceroy Balbiano and his officials from Cagliari, the capital and largest city of the island.

#Giovanni_Maria_Angioy

In 1794

Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.

#Louis_Paulhan

In 1910

Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.

#Mutiny_on_the_Bounty

In 1789

The Hukbalahap are accused of assassinating former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, while she is en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and ten others are also killed.

#Hukbalahap

In 1949

Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution.

#Maryland

In 1788

The Battle of Hormozdgan is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V effectively ending the Parthian Empire.

#Battle_of_Hormozdgan

In 224

France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.

#Austrian_Netherlands

In 1792

Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Namu My?h? Renge Ky? for the very first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.

#Nichiren

In 1253

Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.

#Dwight_D._Eisenhower

In 1952

Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.

#Central_Pacific_Railroad

In 1869

Igor Stravinsky conducted the premiere of his American ballet, Orpheus at the New York City Center.

#Igor_Stravinsky

In 1948

Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne is confirmed by election. The killing is carried out by Hashshashin.

#Conrad_of_Montferrat

In 1192

Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.

#Vietnam_War

In 1970

CBS News released evidence of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse. The photographs show rape and abuse from the American troops over Iraqi detainees.

In 2004

Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.

In 1996

High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.

In 1986

General Cao V?n Viên, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.

In 1975

The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, recorded in Abbey Road Studios goes to number one on the US Billboard chart, beginning a record-breaking 741-week chart run.

In 1973

United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops.

In 1965

The Independence Producers hosted the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas.

In 1930

A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of William I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.

In 1887

Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.

In 1611

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