Notable Historical Events on April 28th
April 28th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
357 |
Emperor Constantius II visits Rome |
1192 |
Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne confirmed by election. Killing carried out by Hashshashin. |
1202 |
King Philip II throws out John without Country, from France |
1253 |
-May 7th) Utrecht destroyed by fire |
1253 |
Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism. |
1376 |
English parliament demands supervision on royal outlay |
1503 |
Battle at Cerignalo: Spanish army under G Cordoba beats France |
1521 |
Treaty of Worms: Emperor Charles names his brother Ferdinand Arch duke of Netherlands-Austria |
1550 |
Powers of Dutch inquisition extends |
1611 |
Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the oldest existing university in Asia and the largest Catholic university in the world. |
1635 |
Virginia Gov John Harvey accused of treason & removed from office |
1655 |
English admiral Blake beats Tunen pirate fleet |
1770 |
Capt James Cook aboad Endeavour lands at Botany Bay in Australia |
1788 |
Maryland becomes 7th state to ratify constitution |
1789 |
Fletcher Christian leads mutiny on HMS Bounty against its captain William Bligh |
1796 |
Cease fire of Cherasco |
1804 |
31 British ships sail up Suriname river demanding transition colony from the Dutch |
1818 |
Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on Great Lakes & Lake Champlain |
1829 |
Dutch parliament accepts new press laws |
1847 |
George B Vashon becomes 1st black to enter NY State Bar |
1848 |
Free last slaves in French colonies |
1855 |
1st veterinary college in US incorporated in Boston |
1865 |
Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "L'Africaine" premieres in Paris |
1892 |
1st performance of Antonin Dvorák's overture "Carneval" |
1901 |
1st soccer game between Belgium (8) & Netherlands (0) |
1901 |
Cleveland's Bock Baker gives up a record 23 singles as White Sox beat Blues (Cleveland Blues!) 13-1 |
1902 |
Using the ISO 8601 standard Year Zero definition for the Gregorian calendar preceded by the Julian calendar, the one billionth minute since the start of January 1, Year Zero occurs at 10:40 AM on this date. |
1910 |
1st night air flight (Claude Grahame-White, England) |
1914 |
181 die in coal mine collapse at Eccles WV |
1919 |
1st jump with Army Air Corp (rip-cord type) parachute (Les Irvin) |
1920 |
Azerbaijan SSR joins USSR (1st time) |
1922 |
WOI (Ames, Iowa) country's 1st licensed educational radio station |
1923 |
Wembley Stadium opens-Bolton Wanderers vs West Ham United (FA Cup) |
1924 |
119 die in Benwood West Virginia coal mine disaster |
1925 |
Kurdish rebels surrender to Turkish army |
1925 |
Netherlands & Great Britain return to gold standard |
1930 |
1st night organized baseball game played in Independence Kansas |
1931 |
Program for woman athletes approved for 1932 Olympics track & field |
1932 |
1st broadcast of "One Man's Family" on NBC-radio |
1932 |
Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced |
1934 |
FDR signs Home Owners Loan Act |
1934 |
Soccer team Blue White '34 forms |
1934 |
Spanish government of Samper forms |
1934 |
Tigers' Goose Goslin grounds into 4 straight double plays |
1935 |
Moscow underground opens (81 km long) |
1937 |
1st animated cartoon electric sign displayed (NYC) |
1937 |
1st commercial flight across Pacific, Pan Am |
1939 |
Hitler claims German-Polish non-attack treaty still in effect |
1940 |
Glenn Miller records "Pennsylvania 6-5000" |
1940 |
Rudolf Hess becomes commandant of concentration camp Auschwitz |
1941 |
Last British troops in Greece surrender |
1942 |
"WW II" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll |
1942 |
Nightly "dim-out" begins along US East Coast |
1943 |
1st performance of Marc Blitzstein's "Freedom Morning" |
1943 |
German-Italian counter offensive in North-Africa |
1943 |
US 34th Division occupies Djebel el Hara North Tunisia |
1944 |
Stalin meets Polish/US priest S Orlemanski |
1944 |
Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 US soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats |
1945 |
British commandos attack Elbe & occupies Lauenburg |
1945 |
US 5th army reaches Swiss border |
1947 |
Thor Heyerdahl & "Kon-Tiki" sail from Peru to Polynesia |
1949 |
Bkln, Commish Chandler suspends Durocher but he is absolved on May 3 NY fan charges Leo Durocher with assault after Giants lose 15-2 to |
1949 |
Former Philippine First Lady 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. |
1952 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Richmond Golf Open |
1952 |
St Louis Browns lend 2 black minor leaguers to Hankyu Braves of Japan |
1952 |
WW II Pacific peace treaty takes effect |
1952 |
Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NATO. |
1955 |
WBIQ TV channel 10 in Birmingham, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
Last French troop leave Vietnam |
1956 |
Reds Frank Robinson hits his 1st of 586 HRs |
1957 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
1957 |
WSOC TV channel 9 in Charlotte, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1958 |
Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
1958 |
Vanguard TV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed) |
1958 |
Vice Pres Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America |
1959 |
KLOE TV channel 10 in Goodland, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1959 |
KPLR TV channel 11 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting |
1960 |
"Christine" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 12 performances |
1960 |
WIPM TV channel 3 in Mayaguez, PR (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1960 |
Elena Kagan, New York, US Supreme Court Judge |
1961 |
Lt Col Gueorgui Mossolov takes E-66A to 34,714 m altitude |
1961 |
Warren Spahn pitches 2nd no hitter at 41 beats SF Giants, 1-0 |
1963 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
1963 |
17th Tony Awards: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" win |
1964 |
Japan joins OECD |
1965 |
Barbra Streisand stars on "My Name is Barbra" special on CBS |
1965 |
Lindsey Nelson broadcasts game at Astrodome from a hanging gondola |
1965 |
Richard Helms replaces Marshall S Carter as deputy director of CIA |
1965 |
US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966 |
1965 |
William F Raborn Jr replaces John A McCone as 7th head of CIA |
1966 |
20th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3 |
1966 |
38th Academy Awards - "Sound of Music", Julie Christie & Lee Marvin win |
1966 |
Cleve ties record with 10th straight win since Opening Day |
1966 |
OCAM, Common Afro-Mauritian Organization forms |
1967 |
Expo 67 opens in Montreal |
1967 |
Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title |
1968 |
11 year-old Mary Bell strangles 4 year-old |
1968 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies' Golf Invitational |
1969 |
Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France |
1969 |
King Crismson with Greg Lake & Ian McDonald debuts |
1969 |
Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill resigns and is replaced later by James Chichester-Clark. |
1971 |
Dutch social democratic party/D'66/DS'70 win parliamentary election |
1971 |
Samuel Lee Gravely Jr becomes 1st black admiral in US Navy |
1972 |
Courts award 1968 Kentucky Derby prize money to 2nd place winner due to the winner being given drugs before the race |
1973 |
Over 6000 Mk. 82 500 pound bombs detonate over 18 hrs in a railyard in northern California. 5500 structures damaged, town of Antelope destroyed, with every building reduced to foundations. Leads to Transportation Safety Act (1974) |
1974 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic |
1975 |
John Lennon appears on "Tonight" & Ringo Starr on "Smother Brothers" |
1975 |
South-Vietnam Gen Duong Van Minh sworn in as president till April 30 |
1977 |
Christopher Boyce convicted for selling secrets |
1977 |
Andreas Baader & members of Baader-Meinhoff jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly 2 years in Stuttgart, Germany |
1977 |
The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed. |
1980 |
Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State, resigns |
1980 |
Reunion Arena in Dallas opens |
1981 |
Galician current Statute of Autonomy. |
1983 |
Argentine government declares all 15-30,000 missing persons dead |
1983 |
Bruins 4-Isles 1-Wales Conference Championship-Series tied 1-1 |
1983 |
NASA launches Geos-F |
1984 |
"La Tragedie de Carmen" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 187 perfs |
1985 |
Alice Miller wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
1985 |
Billy Martin named NY Yankee manager for 4th time |
1985 |
Fernando Valenzuela sets record of 41 scoreless inn to start season |
1986 |
Soviet TV news program Vremya annouces a nuclear accident at Chernobyl nuclear power station, 2 days after the event |
1987 |
NBA announces expansion to Charlotte NC & Miami Fla in 1988 & Minneapolis Minn & Orlando Fla in 1989 |
1987 |
American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua. |
1988 |
"Chess" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 68 performances |
1988 |
Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess |
1988 |
Baltimore Orioles lose AL record 21 games in a row |
1988 |
NJ Devils set all time playoff mark for penalty minutes |
1989 |
Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money |
1989 |
Iran protests sale of "Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie |
1990 |
"Chorus Line" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 6,137 performances |
1990 |
Boston Celtics score most points in a playoff, beat NY Knicks 157-128 |
1990 |
Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Dave Ferraro |
1990 |
Last issue of Dutch communist daily De Waarheid (The Truth) |
1991 |
"Gypsy" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 105 performances |
1991 |
"Taking Steps" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 78 perfs |
1991 |
Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) launched |
1992 |
Brewers beat Blue Jays 22-2 with AL record 31 hits in 9 innings |
1992 |
Italian President Francesco Cossiga formally resigns |
1993 |
"Tango Passion" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 5 performances |
1993 |
Carlo Ciampi forms Italian government with ex-communists |
1993 |
Zambian plane crashes at Libreville, Gabon, 30 soccer players die |
1993 |
NY Islanders beat Wash Caps 4 to 1 in playoffs, Caps Dale Hunter attacks Pierre Turgeon after scoring, in hockey's worst cheap shot |
1994 |
1st multi-racial election in South Africa ends [3 days] |
1994 |
Aldrich Ames, former CIA officer & wife Rosario plead guilty to spying |
1994 |
Freddy Thielemans sworn in as mayor of Brussels Belgium |
1995 |
Gas explosion in South Korean metro, 103 die |
1995 |
Sri Lankaan BAE748 crashes at Palaly, 52 die |
1996 |
"Big" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 193 performances |
1996 |
Martin Bryant shoots & kills 35 in Port Arthur Tasmania |
1996 |
Meg Mallon wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic |
1997 |
"Jekyll & Hyde" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC |
2001 |
Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist. |
2003 |
Andre Agassi recaptures the world no. 1 ranking to become the oldest top-ranked male in the history of the ATP rankings (33 years, 13 days) |
2005 |
The Patent Law Treaty goes into effect. |
2012 |
Tent collapse in St Louis, Missouri, kills one and injures 110 people |
2013 |
8 people are killed and dozens are injured after Taliban attacks on election candidates in Pakistan |
2013 |
3 people are killed and 14 are injured after a gas explosions causes a building to collapse in Reims, France |
2014 |
Craig Ferguson announces he will leave "The Late Late Show" at the end of 2014 |
2016 |
Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state moves ahead with oil and gas tax |
2016 |
Ted Cruz picks Carly Fiorina as running mate |
2016 |
Dennis Hastert, ex-US House speaker, sentenced to 15 months in jail |
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