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Events on the 28th of April in history

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28 Apr 0357 Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius.
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28 Apr 0357 Emperor Constantius II visits Rome
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28 Apr 0585 War between Lydia & Media ended by solar eclipse
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28 Apr 1192 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.
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28 Apr 1202 King Philip II throws out John without Country, from France
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28 Apr 1253 Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō for the very first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
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28 Apr 1253 Utrecht destroyed by fire
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28 Apr 1376 English parliament demands supervision on royal outlay
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28 Apr 1503 The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as the first battle in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.
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28 Apr 1503 Battle at Cerignalo Spanish army under G C
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28 Apr 1521 Treaty of Worms Emperor Charles names his brother Ferdinand Arch duke of Netherlands-Austria
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28 Apr 1550 Powers of Dutch inquisition extends
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28 Apr 1611 Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.
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28 Apr 1635 Virginia Governor John Harvey accused of treason & removed from office
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28 Apr 1655 English Admiral Blake beats Tunen pirate fleet
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28 Apr 1686 1st volume of Isaac Newton's "Principia" published
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28 Apr 1770 Captain James Cook in Endeavor lands at Botany Bay in Australia
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28 Apr 1788 Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
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28 Apr 1788 Maryland becomes the 7th state to ratify the constitution
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28 Apr 1789 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.
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28 Apr 1789 Fletcher Christian leads Mutiny on HMS Bounty & Captain William Bligh
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28 Apr 1792 France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium), beginning the French Revolutionary War.
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28 Apr 1796 The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, the King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.
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28 Apr 1796 Cease fire of Cherasco
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28 Apr 1804 31 English ship sail Suriname river demand transition colony
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28 Apr 1818 Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on Great Lakes & Lake Champlain
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28 Apr 1829 Dutch parliament accepts new press laws
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28 Apr 1847 George B Vashon becomes 1st black to enter New York State Bar
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28 Apr 1848 Free last slaves in French colonies
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28 Apr 1855 1st veterinary college in US incorporated in Boston
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28 Apr 1865 Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "L'Africaine", premieres in Paris France
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28 Apr 1869 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.
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28 Apr 1881 Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
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28 Apr 1887 A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of William I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.
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28 Apr 1892 1st performance of Antonin Dvor
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28 Apr 1901 1st soccer game between Belgium (8) & Netherlands (0)
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28 Apr 1901 Cleveland's Bock Baker gives up a record 23 singles as Chicago White Sox beat Blues (Cleveland Blues!) 13-1
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28 Apr 1910 Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
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28 Apr 1910 1st night air flight (Claude Grahame-White, England)
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28 Apr 1914 181 die in coal mine collapse at Eccles, West Virginia
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28 Apr 1914 W H Carrier patents air conditioner
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28 Apr 1919 1st jump with Army Air Corp (rip-cord type) parachute (Les Irvin)
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28 Apr 1920 Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.
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28 Apr 1920 Azerbaijan SSR joins the USSR (1st time)
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28 Apr 1922 WOI (Ames IA) country's 1st licensed educational radio station
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28 Apr 1923 Wembley Stadium opens-Bolton Wanderers vs West Ham United (FA Cup)
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28 Apr 1924 119 die in Benwood West Virginia coal mine disaster
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28 Apr 1925 Kurd rebels surrender to Turkish army
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28 Apr 1925 Netherlands & Great Britain return to gold standard
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28 Apr 1930 A night baseball game takes place between the Class C Independence Producers and the Muskogee Chiefs in Independence, Kansas using temporary lights. This is one of several games claimed as the first night game in organized baseball.
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28 Apr 1930 1st night organized baseball game (Independence KS)
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28 Apr 1931 Program for woman athletes approved for 1932 Olympics track & field
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28 Apr 1932 A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.
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28 Apr 1932 Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced
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28 Apr 1932 1st broadcast of "One Man's Family" on NBC-radio
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28 Apr 1934 Tigers' Goose Goslin grounds into 4 straight double plays
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28 Apr 1934 FDR signs Home Owners Loan Act
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28 Apr 1934 Soccer team Blue White '34 forms
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28 Apr 1934 Spanish government of Samper forms
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28 Apr 1935 Moscow underground opens (81 km long)
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28 Apr 1937 1st animated cartoon electric sign displayed (New York NY)
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28 Apr 1937 1st commercial flight across the Pacific, Pan Am
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28 Apr 1938 King Zog of Albania marries Countess Geraldine of Hungary
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28 Apr 1939 Hitler claims German-Polish non-attack treaty still in effect
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28 Apr 1940 Glenn Miller records "Pennsylvania 6-5000"
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28 Apr 1940 Rudolf Hess becomes commandant of concentration camp Auschwitz
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28 Apr 1941 Last British troops in Greece surrenders
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28 Apr 1942 "WW II" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll
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28 Apr 1942 Nightly "dim-out" begins along East Coast
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28 Apr 1942 "WWII" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll
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28 Apr 1942 Nightly "dim-out" begins along the East Coast
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28 Apr 1943 1st performance of Marc Blitzstein's "Freedom Morning"
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28 Apr 1943 German-Italian counter offensive in North-Africa
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28 Apr 1943 US 34th Division occupies Djebel el Hara North Tunisia
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28 Apr 1944 Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 US soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats
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28 Apr 1944 World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
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28 Apr 1944 Stalin meets Polish/US priest S Orlemanski
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28 Apr 1945 Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement.
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28 Apr 1945 British commands attack Elbe & occupies Lauenburg
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28 Apr 1945 US 5th army reaches Swiss border
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28 Apr 1947 Thor Heyerdahl and "Kon-Tiki" sail from Peru to Polynesia
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28 Apr 1947 Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
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28 Apr 1948 Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus, in New York City at New York City Center.
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28 Apr 1949 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.
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28 Apr 1949 Brooklyn's Commish Chandler suspends Durocher but he is absolved on May 3 New York fan charges Leo Durocher with assault after Giants lose 15-2 to
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28 Apr 1950 Bhumibol Adulyadej marries Queen Sirikit after their quiet engagement in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 19, 1949.
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28 Apr 1952 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.
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28 Apr 1952 Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends as the Treaty of San Francisco, ratified September 8, 1951, comes into force.
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28 Apr 1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
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28 Apr 1952 WWII Pacific peace treaty takes effect
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28 Apr 1952 Patty Berg wins LPGA Richmond Golf Open
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28 Apr 1952 St Louis Browns lend 2 black minor leaguers to Hankyu Braves of Japan
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28 Apr 1955 WBIQ TV channel 10 in Birmingham AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
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28 Apr 1956 Last French troop leave Vietnam
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28 Apr 1956 Reds Frank Robinson hits his 1st of 586 homeruns
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28 Apr 1957 WSOC TV channel 9 in Charlotte NC (ABC) begins broadcasting
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28 Apr 1958 Vanguard TV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
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28 Apr 1958 Vice President Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America
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28 Apr 1958 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
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28 Apr 1959 KLOE TV channel 10 in Goodland KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
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28 Apr 1959 KPLR TV channel 11 in Saint Louis MO (IND) begins broadcasting
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28 Apr 1960 "Christine" opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 12 performances
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28 Apr 1960 WIPM TV channel 3 in Mayaguez Puerto Rico (PBS) begins broadcasting
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28 Apr 1961 Lieutenant Colonel Georgi Mossolov takes E-66A to 34,714 meter altitude
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28 Apr 1961 Warren Spahn pitches 2nd no hitter at 41 beats San Francisco Giants, 1-0
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28 Apr 1963 17th Tony Awards Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? & A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum win
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28 Apr 1963 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
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28 Apr 1964 Japan joins OECO
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28 Apr 1965 Barbra Streisand stars on "My Name is Barbra" special on CBS
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28 Apr 1965 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.
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28 Apr 1965 US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966
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28 Apr 1965 Lindsey Nelson broadcasts game at Astrodome from a hanging gondola
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28 Apr 1965 Richard Helms replaces Marshall S Carter as deputy director of CIA
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28 Apr 1965 William F Raborn Jr replaces John A McCone as 7th head of CIA
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28 Apr 1966 38th Academy Awards - "Sound of Music, " Julie Christie and L Marvin win
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28 Apr 1966 20th NBA Championship Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3
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28 Apr 1966 Cleveland ties record with 10th straight win since Opening Day
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28 Apr 1966 OCAM, Common Afro-Mauritian Organization forms
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28 Apr 1967 Expo 67 opens in Montr
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28 Apr 1967 Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title
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28 Apr 1968 11 year-old Mary Bell strangles 4 year-old Martin Brown
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28 Apr 1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies' Golf Invitational
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28 Apr 1968 "Hair" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 1750 performances
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28 Apr 1969 King Crismson with Greg Lake and Ian McDonald debuts
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28 Apr 1969 Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
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28 Apr 1970 Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
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28 Apr 1971 Samuel Lee Gravely Jr becomes 1st black Admiral in US Navy
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28 Apr 1971 Dutch social Democratic party/D'66/DS'70 win parliamentary election
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28 Apr 1972 The courts awarded the Kentucky Derby prize money to 2nd place winner because the winner was given drugs before the race
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28 Apr 1974 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
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28 Apr 1975 John Lennon appears on "Tonight" andRingo on "Smother Brothers"
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28 Apr 1975 General Cao Văn Viên, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.
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28 Apr 1975 John Lennon appears on "Tonight" & Ringo on "Smothers Brothers"
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28 Apr 1975 Last Americans evacuated from Saigon
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28 Apr 1975 South-Vietnam General Duong Van Minh sworn in as president till April 30
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28 Apr 1977 Andreas Baader and members of Baader-Meinhoff jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly 2 years in Stuttgart, Germany
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28 Apr 1977 Christopher Boyce convicted for selling secrets
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28 Apr 1977 The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.
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28 Apr 1977 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.
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28 Apr 1977 Christopher Boyce convicted for selling US secrets to the Russians
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28 Apr 1978 President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
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28 Apr 1980 Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State, resigns
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28 Apr 1980 Reunion Arena in Dallas opens
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28 Apr 1983 Boston Bruins 4-New York Islanders 1-Wales Conference Championship-Series tied 1-1
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28 Apr 1983 NASA launches Goes-F
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28 Apr 1983 Argentine government declares all 15-30,000 missing persons dead
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28 Apr 1984 "La Tragedie de Carmen" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 187 performances
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28 Apr 1985 Alice Miller wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
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28 Apr 1985 Fernando Valenzuela sets record of 41 scoreless innings to start season
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28 Apr 1985 Philadelphia Flyers New York Islanders 1-Patrick Division Finals-Flyers win series 4-1
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28 Apr 1985 Billy Martin named New York Yankee manager for 4th time
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28 Apr 1986 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.
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28 Apr 1986 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.
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28 Apr 1986 Chernobyl, USSR site of world's worst nuclear power plant disaster
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28 Apr 1987 NBA announces expansion to Charlotte NC and Miami Florida in 1988, Minneapolis Minn and Orlando Florida in 1989
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28 Apr 1987 American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
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28 Apr 1988 "Chess" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 68 performances
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28 Apr 1988 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.
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28 Apr 1988 Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess
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28 Apr 1988 Baltimore Orioles lose American League record 21 games in a row
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28 Apr 1988 New Jersey Devils set all time playoff mark for penalty minutes
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28 Apr 1989 Iran protests sale of "Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie
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28 Apr 1989 Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money
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28 Apr 1990 Boston Celtics score most points in a playoff, beat the New York Knicks 157-128
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28 Apr 1990 "Chorus Line" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 6,137 performances (15 years)
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28 Apr 1990 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Dave Ferraro
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28 Apr 1990 Guns & Roses' Axl Rose marries Erin Everly (annulled same year)
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28 Apr 1990 Last issue of Dutch communist daily De Waarheid (The Truth)
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28 Apr 1991 "Gypsy" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 105 performances
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28 Apr 1991 "Taking Steps" closes at Circle in the Square Theater NYC after 78 performances
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28 Apr 1991 Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) is launched
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28 Apr 1992 Brewers beat Blue Jays 22-2 with AL record 31 hits in 9 innings
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28 Apr 1992 Italian President Francesco Cossiga formally resigns
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28 Apr 1992 Milwaukee Brewers beat Toronto Blue Jays 22-2 with American League record 31 hits in 9 innings
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28 Apr 1993 "Tango Passion" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 5 performances
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28 Apr 1993 Carlo Ciampi forms Italian government with ex-communists
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28 Apr 1993 New York Islanders beat Washington Capitals 4 to 1 in playoffs, Capitals Dale Hunter attacks Pierre Turgeon after scoring, in hockey's worst cheap shot
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28 Apr 1993 Zambian plane crashes at Libreville Gabon, 30 soccer players die
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28 Apr 1994 Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
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28 Apr 1994 1st multi-racial election in South Africa ends [3 days]
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28 Apr 1994 Aldrich Ames, former CIA officer & wife Rosario plead guilty to spying
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28 Apr 1994 Freddy Thielemans sworn in as mayor of Brussels Belgium
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28 Apr 1994 Lisa Marie Presley separates from Danny Keough
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28 Apr 1995 Gas explosion in South Korean metro, 103 die
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28 Apr 1995 Sri Lankaan BAE748 crashes at Palaly, 52 die
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28 Apr 1996 "Big, " opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 193 performances
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28 Apr 1996 Port Arthur massacre (Australia): Gunman Martin Bryant opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, Killing 35 people and wounding 23 others.
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28 Apr 1996 Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
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28 Apr 1996 Martin Bryant shoots & kills 35 in Port Arthur Tasmania
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28 Apr 1996 Meg Mallon wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
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28 Apr 1997 "Jekyll & Hyde" opens at Plymouth Theater, New York City
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28 Apr 1997 "Jekyll & Hyde" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC
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28 Apr 2001 Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist.
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