What happened on April 28? There are more than 234 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About April 28
April 28 is the 119th day of the year 2024. There are 247 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday. This day falls under the 17th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Thurmont, Maryland 21788 sunrise will occur at 06:11 AM and sunset will occur at 08:02 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Taurus. The modern birthstone for this month is Diamond while the mystical birthstone is Opal.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 276 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For April 28
- 357Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius.
- 1192Assassination 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.
- 1253Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the very first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
- 1503The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as the first battle in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.
- 1611Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.
- 1788Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
- 1789Mutiny 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.
- 1792France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium), beginning the French Revolutionary War.
- 1796The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, the King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.
- 1869Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
- 1887A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war.
- 1920Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.
- 1930The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.
- 1932A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.
- 1944World War II: Nine German S-boots attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
- 1945Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement.
- 1947Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
- 1948Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus, in New York City at New York City Center.
- 1949Former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, 61, is assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and 10 others are also killed.
- 1950Bhumibol Adulyadej marries Queen Sirikit after their quiet engagement in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 19, 1949.
- 1952Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
- 1952Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends as the Treaty of San Francisco, ratified September 8, 1951, comes into force.
- 1952The 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.
- 1965United 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.
- 1969Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
- 1970Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
- 1975General Cao Van Vien, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.
- 1977The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.
- 1977The 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.
- 1978President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
- 1986The 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.
- 1987American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
- 1988Near 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.
- 1994Former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
- 1996In Tasmania, Australia, Martin Bryant goes on a shooting spree, killing 35 people and seriously injuring 21 more.
- 1996Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
- 1999In Alberta, Canada, 14-year-old Todd Cameron Smith fires upon three students, killing one and wounding another in the W. R. Myers High School shooting.
- 2001Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world’s first space tourist.
- 2008A train collision in Shandong, China, kills 72 people and injures 416 more.
Who Were Born On April 28?
- 32Marcus Salvius Otho, Roman emperor (d. 69 AD)
- 1442King Edward IV of England (d. 1483)
- 1545Yi Sun-sin, Korean admiral (d. 1598)
- 1630Charles Cotton, English poet (d. 1687)
- 1686Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1721)
- 1715Franz Sparry, composer (d. 1767)
- 1758James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (d. 1831)
- 1765Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician (d. 1834)
- 1819Ezra Abbot, American Bible scholar (d. 1884)
- 1827William Nelson Hall, Canadian sailor (d. 1904)
- 1838Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, Nobel laureate (d. 1913)
- 1863Josiah Thomas, Australian politician (d. 1933)
- 1868Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (d. 1908)
- 1868Lucy Booth, the fifth daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1953)
- 1870August Schmierer, German rugby player
- 1874Karl Kraus, Austrian journalist and author (d. 1936)
- 1876Nicola Romeo, Italian automobile engineer and an entrepreneur (d. 1938)
- 1878Lionel Barrymore, American actor (d. 1954)
- 1888Walter Tull, British footballer (d. 1918)
- 1889António de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal (d. 1970)
- 1897Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician (d. 1986)
- 1900Heinrich Müller, head of the Gestapo (disappeared in 1945)
- 1900Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer (d. 1992)
- 1902Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (d. 1979)
- 1906Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (d. 1978)
- 1906Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (d. 1999)
- 1908Oskar Schindler, Austro-Hungarian (Sudeten German) industrialist (d. 1974)
- 1910Sam Merwin, Jr., American mystery fiction writer (d. 1996)
- 1911Lee Falk, American comic strip writer (d. 1999)
- 1912Kaneto Shindō, Japanese film director
- 1912Odette Sansom Hallowes, French resistance worker (d. 1995)
- 1914Philip E. High, Science fiction author (d. 2006)
- 1916Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (d. 1993)
- 1921Rowland Evans, American journalist (d. 2001)
- 1922Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (d. 1987)
- 1923William Guarnere, WWII veteran
- 1924Blossom Dearie, American jazz singer (d. 2009)
- 1924Donatas Banionis, Lithuanian actor
- 1924Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia
- 1925T. John Lesinski, Lieutenant Governor of Michigan
- 1926Harper Lee, American author
- 1928Eugene M. Shoemaker, American planetary scientist (d. 1997)
- 1928Yves Klein, French painter (d. 1962)
- 1930Carolyn Jones, American actress (d. 1983)
- 1930James Baker, American politician
- 1932Brownie Ledbetter, American civil rights activist (d. 2010)
- 1934Lois Duncan, American novelist
- 1937John White, Scottish internationalist footballer, killed by lightning (d. 1964)
- 1937Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq 1979-2003; Prime Minister of Iraq 1979-1991; 1994-2003 (d. 2006)
- 1938Madge Sinclair, Jamaican actress (d. 1995)
- 1941Ann-Margret, Swedish-born actress
- 1941Iryna Zhylenko, Ukrainian poet
- 1941Karl Barry Sharpless, American chemist, Nobel laureate
- 1941Lucien Aimar, French cyclist
- 1941Nico Mastorakis, Greek filmmaker, director and radio producer
- 1942Mike Brearley, English cricketer
- 1943Jacques Dutronc, French singer and actor
- 1944Alice Waters, American chef
- 1944Elizabeth LeCompte, American theater director
- 1944Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe, Belgian politician
- 1946Ginette Reno, French Canadian singer, songwriter and actress
- 1948Dorothée Berryman, Canadian actress and singer
- 1948Marcia Strassman, American actress
- 1948Terry Pratchett, English author
- 1949Bruno Kirby, American actor (d. 2006)
- 1949Indian Larry, American stuntman (d. 2004)
- 1949Paul Guilfoyle, American actor
- 1950Jay Leno, American comedian and television host
- 1950Willie Colón, Puerto Rican salsa musician
- 1952Mary McDonnell, American actress
- 1953Kim Gordon, American musician (Sonic Youth)
- 1953Roberto Bolaño, Chilean novelist and poet (d. 2003)
- 1954Ron Zook, American football coach
- 1954Vic Sotto, Filipino actor, host, comedian, and film producer
- 1955Nicky Gumbel, British author and priest
- 1956Jimmy Barnes, Scottish-born singer
- 1957Wilma Landkroon, Dutch singer
- 1958Hal Sutton, American golfer
- 1958Nancy Lee Grahn, American actress
- 1960Ian Rankin, Scottish novelist
- 1960Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic strength athlete (d. 1993)
- 1960John Cerutti, American baseball player and announcer (d. 2004)
- 1960Walter Zenga, Italian footballer
- 1961Anna Oxa, Italian singer
- 1961Futoshi Matsunaga, Japanese serial killer
- 1963Lloyd Eisler, Canadian figure skater
- 1963Marc Lacroix, Belgian biochemist
- 1964Barry Larkin, American baseball player
- 1964Noriyuki Iwadare, Japanese composer
- 1965Jennifer Rardin, American author, Jaz Parks series (d. 2010)
- 1965Steven Blum, American voice actor
- 1966John Daly, American golfer
- 1966Too Short, American rapper
- 1967Kari Wührer, American actress
- 1968Andy Flower, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1968Howard Donald, English musician
- 1968Scott Putesky, American musician (Marilyn Manson)
- 1970Diego Simeone, Argentine footballer
- 1970Nicklas Lidström, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1971Brad McEwan, Australian journalist
- 1971Bridget Moynahan, American actress
- 1972Joseph Bruce, American musician (Insane Clown Posse)
- 1973Earl Holmes, American footballer
- 1973Elisabeth Röhm, German/American actress
- 1973Francisco Palencia, Mexican footballer
- 1973Jorge Garcia, American actor
- 1973Serge Zwikker, American basketball player
- 1974Dominic Matteo, Scottish footballer
- 1974Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress
- 1974Richel Hersisia, Dutch boxer
- 1974Vernon Kay, English disc jockey and television presenter
- 1977Derrick Wayne Frazier, American convicted murderer (d. 2006)
- 1978Lauren Laverne, English disc jockey and television presenter
- 1979Bahram Radan, Iranian actor
- 1979Scott Fujita, American football player
- 1980Josh Howard, American basketball player
- 1980Karolina Goceva, Macedonian singer
- 1981Jessica Alba, American actress
- 1981Pietro Travagli, Italian rugby player
- 1982Chris Kaman, American basketball player
- 1982Harry Shum, Jr., American dancer and actor
- 1982Nikki Grahame, English television personality
- 1983Roger Johnson, English footballer
- 1984Dmitri Torbinski, Russian footballer
- 1986George Nozuka, Canadian singer/songwriter
- 1986Jenna Ushkowitz, South Korean-American actress
- 1986Jennifer Palm Lundberg, Swedish beauty pageant contestant
- 1986Roman Polák, Czech ice hockey player
- 1987Ryan Conroy, Scottish footballer
- 1988Jonathan Biabiany, French footballer
- 1988Juan Manuel Mata, Spanish footballer
- 1989Emil Salomonsson, Swedish footballer
- 1990Mario Meraz, Mexican boxer
- 1991Jordan Robinson, British footballer
- 1992Jack Taylor, American actor
Who Died On April 28?
- 1192King Conrad of Montferrat
- 1489Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, English politician
- 1533Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (b. 1461)
- 1643Francisco de Lucena, Portuguese Secretary of State (b. 1578?)
- 1695Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet (b. 1621)
- 1710Thomas Betterton, English actor
- 1716Louis de Montfort, French catholic priest (b. 1673)
- 1726Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (b. 1653)
- 1741Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish General and statesman (b. 1668)
- 1772Johann Friedrich Struensee, physician of Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1737)
- 1781Cornelius Harnett, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723)
- 1813Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (b. 1745)
- 1816Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher (b. 1862)
- 1841Peter Chanel, French saint (b. 1803)
- 1853Ludwig Tieck, German writer (b. 1773)
- 1858Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (b. 1801)
- 1865Samuel Cunard, Canadian-born British shipping magnate (b. 1787)
- 1881Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon, French sculptor and photographer (b. 1818)
- 1883John “Jack” Russell, English parson, hunter and dog breeder (b. 1795)
- 1905Fitzhugh Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1835)
- 1936King Fuad I of Egypt (b. 1868)
- 1944Frank Knox, U.S. Secretary of the Navy & Vice-Presidential candidate (b. 1874)
- 1944Mohammed Alim Khan, the last Emir of the Emirate of Bukhara (b. 1880)
- 1945Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist dictator (b. 1883)
- 1945Clara Petacci, Italian mistress of Benito Mussolini (b. 1912)
- 1945Roberto Farinacci, Italian fascist (b. 1892)
- 1946Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (b. 1870)
- 1949Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (b. 1888)
- 1954Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1879)
- 1957Heinz “Pritzl” Bär, German fighter pilot (b. 1913)
- 1964Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector (b. 1888)
- 1970Ed Begley, American actor (b. 1901)
- 1973Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (b. 1893)
- 1975Tom Donahue, American freeform radio DJ (b. 1928)
- 1978Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan, President of Afghanistan (b. 1909)
- 1988B. W. Stevenson, American country singer (b. 1949)
- 1991Steve Broidy, American motion picture executive (b. 1905)
- 1992Francis Bacon, Anglo-Irish painter (b. 1909)
- 1992Iceberg Slim, American writer (b. 1918)
- 1993Jim Valvano, American basketball coach (b. 1946)
- 1994Berton Roueché, American medical writer (b. 1910)
- 1998Jerome Bixby, American writer (b. 1923)
- 1998Ramakant Desai, Indian cricketer (b. 1939)
- 1999Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1921)
- 1999Rory Calhoun, American actor (b. 1922)
- 1999Sir Alf Ramsey, English football manager (b. 1920)
- 2000Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish doctor, researcher and politician (b. 1925)
- 2000Penelope Fitzgerald, English writer (b. 1916)
- 2002Alexander Lebed, Russian general (b. 1950)
- 2002Lou Thesz, American wrestler (b. 1916)
- 2005Chris Candido, American wrestler (b. 1972)
- 2005Percy Heath, American jazz bassist (Modern Jazz Quartet) (b. 1923)
- 2005Taraki Sivaram, Tamil journalist of Sri Lanka (b. 1959)
- 2007Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (b. 1912)
- 2007Dabbs Greer, American actor (b. 1917)
- 2007René Mailhot, Canadian journalist (b. 1942)
- 2007Tommy Newsom, American bandleader (b. 1929)
- 2009Ekaterina Maximova, Russian ballerina (b. 1939)
- 2009Richard Pratt, Australian businessman (b.1934)
- 2009Valeria Peter Predescu, Romanian singer (b. 1947)
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