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Date | Description | Type |
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28th of April 1192 | EVENT | 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. |
28th of April 1253 | EVENT | Nichiren, 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. |
28th of April 1503 | EVENT | The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as the first battle in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder. |
28th of April 1611 | EVENT | Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world. |
28th of April 1788 | EVENT | Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States. |
28th of April 1789 | EVENT | 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. |
28th of April 1792 | EVENT | France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium), beginning the French Revolutionary War. |
28th of April 1796 | EVENT | The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, the King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast. |
28th of April 1869 | EVENT | Chinese 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. |
28th of April 1887 | EVENT | A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebele is released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war. |
28th of April 1920 | EVENT | Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union. |
28th of April 1930 | EVENT | The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas. |
28th of April 1932 | EVENT | A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans. |
28th of April 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Nine German S-boots attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946. |
28th of April 1945 | EVENT | Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement. |
28th of April 1947 | EVENT | Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia. |
28th of April 1949 | EVENT | Former 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. |
28th of April 1950 | EVENT | Bhumibol Adulyadej marries Queen Sirikit after their quiet engagement in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 19, 1949. |
28th of April 1952 | EVENT | Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. |
28th of April 1952 | EVENT | Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends as the Treaty of San Francisco, ratified September 8, 1951, comes into force. |
28th of April 1952 | EVENT | 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. |
28th of April 1965 | EVENT | 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. |
28th of April 1969 | EVENT | Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France. |
28th of April 1970 | EVENT | Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia. |
28th of April 1975 | EVENT | General Cao Van Vien, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory. |
28th of April 1977 | EVENT | The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed. |
28th of April 1977 | EVENT | 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. |
28th of April 1978 | EVENT | President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels. |
28th of April 1986 | EVENT | 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. |
28th of April 1987 | EVENT | American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua. |
28th of April 1988 | EVENT | 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. |
28th of April 1994 | EVENT | Former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia. |
28th of April 1996 | EVENT | Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4 1/2 hour videotaped testimony for the defense. |
28th of April 1996 | EVENT | In Tasmania, Australia, Martin Bryant goes on a shooting spree, killing 35 people and seriously injuring 21 more. |
28th of April 2001 | EVENT | Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist. |
28th of April 2008 | EVENT | A train collision in Shandong, China, kills 72 people and injures 416 more. |
28th of April 0032 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Salvius Otho, Roman emperor (d. 69 AD) |
28th of April 1442 | BIRTHDAY | King Edward IV of England (d. 1483) |
28th of April 1545 | BIRTHDAY | Yi Sun-sin, Korean admiral (d. 1598) |
28th of April 1630 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Cotton, English poet (d. 1687) |
28th of April 1686 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1721) |
28th of April 1715 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Sparry, composer (d. 1767) |
28th of April 1758 | BIRTHDAY | James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (d. 1831) |
28th of April 1765 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvestre Francois Lacroix, French mathematician (d. 1834) |
28th of April 1819 | BIRTHDAY | Ezra Abbot, American Bible scholar (d. 1884) |
28th of April 1827 | BIRTHDAY | William Nelson Hall, Canadian sailor (d. 1904) |
28th of April 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, Nobel laureate (d. 1913) |
28th of April 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Josiah Thomas, Australian politician (d. 1933) |
28th of April 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Lucy Booth, the fifth daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1953) |
28th of April 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (d. 1908) |
28th of April 1870 | BIRTHDAY | August Schmierer, German rugby player |
28th of April 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Kraus, Austrian journalist and author (d. 1936) |
28th of April 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Nicola Romeo, Italian automobile engineer and an entrepreneur (d. 1938) |
28th of April 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Lionel Barrymore, American actor (d. 1954) |
28th of April 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal (d. 1970) |
28th of April 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician (d. 1986) |
28th of April 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Muller, head of the Gestapo (disappeared in 1945) |
28th of April 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer (d. 1992) |
28th of April 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (d. 1979) |
28th of April 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Godel, Austrian mathematician (d. 1978) |
28th of April 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (d. 1999) |
28th of April 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Oskar Schindler, Austro-Hungarian (Sudeten German) industrialist (d. 1974) |
28th of April 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Merwin, Jr., American mystery fiction writer (d. 1996) |
28th of April 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Falk, American comic strip writer (d. 1999) |
28th of April 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Odette Sansom Hallowes, French resistance worker (d. 1995) |
28th of April 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Kaneto Shindo, Japanese film director |
28th of April 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Philip E. High, Science fiction author (d. 2006) |
28th of April 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (d. 1993) |
28th of April 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Rowland Evans, American journalist (d. 2001) |
28th of April 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (d. 1987) |
28th of April 1923 | BIRTHDAY | William Guarnere, WWII veteran |
28th of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Donatas Banionis, Lithuanian actor |
28th of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia |
28th of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Blossom Dearie, American jazz singer (d. 2009) |
28th of April 1925 | BIRTHDAY | T. John Lesinski, Lieutenant Governor of Michigan |
28th of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Harper Lee, American author |
28th of April 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Yves Klein, French painter (d. 1962) |
28th of April 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene M. Shoemaker, American planetary scientist (d. 1997) |
28th of April 1930 | BIRTHDAY | James Baker, American politician |
28th of April 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Carolyn Jones, American actress (d. 1983) |
28th of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Brownie Ledbetter, American civil rights activist (d. 2010) |
28th of April 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Lois Duncan, American novelist |
28th of April 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq 1979-2003; Prime Minister of Iraq 1979-1991; 1994-2003 (d. 2006) |
28th of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Madge Sinclair, Jamaican actress (d. 1995) |
28th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Ann-Margret, Swedish-born actress |
28th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Nico Mastorakis, Greek filmmaker, director and radio producer |
28th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Barry Sharpless, American chemist, Nobel laureate |
28th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Iryna Zhylenko, Ukrainian poet |
28th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Lucien Aimar, French cyclist |
28th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Brearley, English cricketer |
28th of April 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Dutronc, French singer and actor |
28th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth LeCompte, American theater director |
28th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe, Belgian politician |
28th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Waters, American chef |
28th of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Ginette Reno, French Canadian singer, songwriter and actress |
28th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothee Berryman, Canadian actress and singer |
28th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Marcia Strassman, American actress |
28th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Pratchett, English author |
28th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Guilfoyle, American actor |
28th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Indian Larry, American stuntman (d. 2004) |
28th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Kirby, American actor (d. 2006) |
28th of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Willie Colon, Puerto Rican salsa musician |
28th of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Leno, American comedian and television host |
28th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Mary McDonnell, American actress |
28th of April 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Gordon, American musician (Sonic Youth) |
28th of April 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto Bolano, Chilean novelist and poet (d. 2003) |
28th of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Vic Sotto, Filipino actor, host, comedian, and film producer |
28th of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Zook, American football coach |
28th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Nicky Gumbel, British author and priest |
28th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Barnes, Scottish-born singer |
28th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Wilma Landkroon, Dutch singer |
28th of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Hal Sutton, American golfer |
28th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | John Cerutti, American baseball player and announcer (d. 2004) |
28th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Zenga, Italian footballer |
28th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Pall Sigmarsson, Icelandic strength athlete (d. 1993) |
28th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Rankin, Scottish novelist |
28th of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Oxa, Italian singer |
28th of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Futoshi Matsunaga, Japanese serial killer |
28th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Lloyd Eisler, Canadian figure skater |
28th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Lacroix, Belgian biochemist |
28th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Noriyuki Iwadare, Japanese composer |
28th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Larkin, American baseball player |
28th of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Blum, American voice actor |
28th of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Rardin, American author, Jaz Parks series (d. 2010) |
28th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Too Short, American rapper |
28th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | John Daly, American golfer |
28th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Kari Wuhrer, American actress |
28th of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Donald, English musician |
28th of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Flower, Zimbabwean cricketer |
28th of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Putesky, American musician (Marilyn Manson) |
28th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Nicklas Lidstrom, Swedish ice hockey player |
28th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Diego Simeone, Argentine footballer |
28th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Brad McEwan, Australian journalist |
28th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Bridget Moynahan, American actress |
28th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Bruce, American musician (Insane Clown Posse) |
28th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jorge Garcia, American actor |
28th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco Palencia, Mexican footballer |
28th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Elisabeth Rohm, German/American actress |
28th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Penelope Cruz, Spanish actress |
28th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Richel Hersisia, Dutch boxer |
28th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Dominic Matteo, Scottish footballer |
28th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Vernon Kay, English disc jockey and television presenter |
28th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Derrick Wayne Frazier, American convicted murderer (d. 2006) |
28th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Lauren Laverne, English disc jockey and television presenter |
28th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Fujita, American football player |
28th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Bahram Radan, Iranian actor |
28th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Howard, American basketball player |
28th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Pietro Travagli, Italian rugby player |
28th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Alba, American actress |
28th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Nikki Grahame, English television personality |
28th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Kaman, American basketball player |
28th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Shum, Jr., American dancer and actor |
28th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Johnson, English footballer |
28th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Dmitri Torbinski, Russian footballer |
28th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | George Nozuka, Canadian singer/songwriter |
28th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Roman Polak, Czech ice hockey player |
28th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jenna Ushkowitz, South Korean-American actress |
28th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Palm Lundberg, Swedish beauty pageant contestant |
28th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Conroy, Scottish footballer |
28th of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Manuel Mata, Spanish footballer |
28th of April 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Emil Salomonsson, Swedish footballer |
28th of April 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Meraz, Mexican boxer |
28th of April 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Jordan Robinson, British footballer |
28th of April 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Taylor, American actor |
28th of April 1192 | DEATH | Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem |
28th of April 1489 | DEATH | Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, English politician |
28th of April 1533 | DEATH | Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (Born 1461) |
28th of April 1695 | DEATH | Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet (Born 1621) |
28th of April 1710 | DEATH | Thomas Betterton, English actor |
28th of April 1716 | DEATH | Louis de Montfort, French catholic priest (Born 1673) |
28th of April 1726 | DEATH | Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (Born 1653) |
28th of April 1741 | DEATH | Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish General and statesman (Born 1668) |
28th of April 1772 | DEATH | Johann Friedrich Struensee, physician of Christian VII of Denmark (Born 1737) |
28th of April 1781 | DEATH | Cornelius Harnett, American delegate to the Continental Congress (Born 1723) |
28th of April 1813 | DEATH | Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (Born 1745) |
28th of April 1816 | DEATH | Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher (Born 1862) |
28th of April 1841 | DEATH | Peter Chanel, French saint (Born 1803) |
28th of April 1853 | DEATH | Ludwig Tieck, German writer (Born 1773) |
28th of April 1858 | DEATH | Johannes Peter Muller, German physiologist (Born 1801) |
28th of April 1865 | DEATH | Samuel Cunard, Canadian-born British shipping magnate (Born 1787) |
28th of April 1883 | DEATH | John "Jack" Russell, English parson, hunter and dog breeder (Born 1795) |
28th of April 1905 | DEATH | Fitzhugh Lee, American Confederate general (Born 1835) |
28th of April 1926 | DEATH | Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (Born 1857) |
28th of April 1936 | DEATH | King Fuad I of Egypt (Born 1868) |
28th of April 1944 | DEATH | Mohammed Alim Khan, the last Emir of the Emirate of Bukhara (Born 1880) |
28th of April 1944 | DEATH | Frank Knox, U.S. Secretary of the Navy & Vice-Presidential candidate (Born 1874) |
28th of April 1945 | DEATH | Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist dictator (Born 1883) |
28th of April 1945 | DEATH | Clara Petacci, Italian mistress of Benito Mussolini (Born 1912) |
28th of April 1945 | DEATH | Roberto Farinacci, Italian fascist (Born 1892) |
28th of April 1946 | DEATH | Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (Born 1870) |
28th of April 1949 | DEATH | Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (Born 1888) |
28th of April 1954 | DEATH | Leon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1879) |
28th of April 1957 | DEATH | Heinz "Pritzl" Bar, German fighter pilot (Born 1913) |
28th of April 1964 | DEATH | Rolf de Mare, Swedish art collector (Born 1888) |
28th of April 1970 | DEATH | Ed Begley, American actor (Born 1901) |
28th of April 1973 | DEATH | Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (Born 1893) |
28th of April 1975 | DEATH | Tom Donahue, American FM radio DJ (pioneer, freeform radio) (Born 1928) |
28th of April 1978 | DEATH | Sardar Mohammed Daoud, President of Afghanistan (Born 1909) |
28th of April 1988 | DEATH | B. W. Stevenson, American country singer (Born 1949) |
28th of April 1991 | DEATH | Steve Broidy, American motion picture executive (Born 1905) |
28th of April 1992 | DEATH | Francis Bacon, Anglo-Irish painter (Born 1909) |
28th of April 1992 | DEATH | Iceberg Slim, American writer (Born 1918) |
28th of April 1993 | DEATH | Jim Valvano, American basketball coach (Born 1946) |
28th of April 1994 | DEATH | Berton Roueche, American medical writer, The New Yorker magazine staff writer (Born 1910) |
28th of April 1998 | DEATH | Ramakant Desai, Indian cricketer (Born 1939) |
28th of April 1998 | DEATH | Jerome Bixby, American writer (Born 1923) |
28th of April 1999 | DEATH | Sir Alf Ramsey, English football manager (Born 1920) |
28th of April 1999 | DEATH | Rory Calhoun, American actor (Born 1922) |
28th of April 1999 | DEATH | Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1921) |
28th of April 2000 | DEATH | Penelope Fitzgerald, English writer (Born 1916) |
28th of April 2000 | DEATH | Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish doctor, researcher and politician (Born 1925) |
28th of April 2002 | DEATH | Alexander Lebed, Russian general (Born 1950) |
28th of April 2002 | DEATH | Lou Thesz, American wrestler (Born 1916) |
28th of April 2005 | DEATH | Chris Candido, American wrestler (Born 1972) |
28th of April 2005 | DEATH | Percy Heath, American jazz bassist (Modern Jazz Quartet) (Born 1923) |
28th of April 2005 | DEATH | Taraki Sivaram, Tamil journalist of Sri Lanka (Born 1959) |
28th of April 2007 | DEATH | Rene Mailhot, Canadian journalist (Born 1942) |
28th of April 2007 | DEATH | Dabbs Greer, American actor (Born 1917) |
28th of April 2007 | DEATH | Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker, German physicist and philosopher (Born 1912) |
28th of April 2007 | DEATH | Tommy Newsom, American bandleader (Born 1929) |
28th of April 2009 | DEATH | Valeria Peter Predescu, Romanian singer (Born 1947) |
28th of April 2009 | DEATH | Ekaterina Maximova, Russian ballerina (Born 1939) |
28th of April 2009 | DEATH | Richard Pratt, Australian businessman (Born1934) |