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History on the 28th of April

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28 Apr 1521 RELIGIOUS German reformer Martin Luther wrote in a letter: 'The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.'
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28 Apr 1839 RELIGIOUS Birth of Vernon J. Charlesworth, English clergyman and headmaster at Charles Spurgeon's Stockwell Orphanage. Today, Charlesworth is remembered as author of the hymn, "A Shelter in the Time of Storm."
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28 Apr 1872 RELIGIOUS English devotional author Frances Ridley Havergal, 33, penned the words to the hymn, "Lord, Speak to Me That I May Speak."
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28 Apr 1874 RELIGIOUS Birth of Susan Strachan, missions pioneer. Working together with her husband Harry Strachan, in 1921 she helped found the Latin America Mission in Stony Point, NY.
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28 Apr 1915 WW1 Begin of First Battle of Krithia
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28 Apr 1919 WW2 USS R-5 departed Boston, Massachusetts, United States for New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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28 Apr 1920 WW2 The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic was formed. 
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28 Apr 1920 WW2 Crown Prince Yi Un of Korea married Japanese Princess Masako of Nashimoto. 
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28 Apr 1932 WW2 USS R-5 set sail for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. 
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28 Apr 1933 WW2 In the Soviet Union, a Communist Party decree pointed out (correctly) that far too many careerist and political illiterates had been allowed into the party ranks during the collectivization and industrialization drive. Held in local public buildings, the party Chistka (Three-man purge commissions) was instructed to interrogate all local Communist officials, who were expected to declare their social origin, their activities for the Party and any derelictions of duty. The commissions had the authority to call witnesses, take statements and decide on a range of recommendations, ranging from confirmation of status down to expulsion from the party. 
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28 Apr 1934 WW2 USS Astoria was commissioned into service with Captain Edmund S. Root in command. 
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28 Apr 1936 WW2 Tetsuzo Iwamoto began receiving flight training by the Japanese Navy. 
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28 Apr 1937 WW2 Basque forces, fighting on the side of the Spanish Republicans, surrendered at Durango and Guernica, Spain. 
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28 Apr 1937 WW2 The British Royal Navy issued the order for the future battleship HMS Howe. 
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28 Apr 1939 WW2 General Duan Lang ordered his Chinese 79th Division to disengage south of Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China after suffering high casualties during a Japanese counterattack. 
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28 Apr 1939 WW2 In a two-hour speech to the German Reichstag which was widely broadcast around the world, Adolf Hitler repudiated the Anglo-German Naval Agreement and expressed the wish to annex Danzig. In regards to the recent British-Polish treaty, Hitler claimed that it broke the terms of the 1934 German-Polish non-aggression treaty, thus the 1934 agreement was now void; he was, however, willing to negotiate a new one with Poland. Finally, addressing US President Franklin Roosevelt's letter of 14 Apr 1939, in which Roosevelt requested Germany to guarantee the borders of 31 nations, Hitler noted the result of the subsequent survey that revealed most of the nations (Poland excluded) responded they were not at all threatened by Germany. 
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28 Apr 1940 WW2 Vittorio Veneto was commissioned into service. 
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28 Apr 1940 WW2 The British War Cabinet ordered the withdraw of British troops at Trondheim, Norway to the dismay of Norwegian leaders. Meanwhile, troops of the British 15th Brigade held their line against attacks by the German 196th Division at Otta throughout the day before they fell back 25 miles to the north to Dombås overnight. 
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28 Apr 1941 WW2 German submarine U-123 detected Allied convoy HX121 150 miles south of Iceland and radioed the finding to 5 other submarines. At 0415 hours, U-552 sank a tanker. At 0725 hours, U-96 sank 2 tankers and 1 freighter. While attacking, U-65 was sunk by depth charges launched by British destroyer HMS Douglas, killing the entire crew of 50. 
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28 Apr 1941 WW2 British Stirling bombers of No. 7 Squadron RAF attacked Emden, Germany during the day. 
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28 Apr 1941 WW2 In Berlin, Germany, German ambassador to the Soviet Union Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg attempted to convince Adolf Hitler that the Soviet Union was generally friendly toward Germany, and the two nations could achieve greater friendship by working closer together. 
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28 Apr 1941 WW2 German aircraft sank Greek torpedo boat Kyzikos and 2 other ships during the day. 2 companies of the German 5th Panzer Division captured the port of Kalamata, Greece, disrupting evacuation of Allied troops; though Allied forces would recapture the port by the end of the day, all British ships had already departed from Kalamata. Overnight, 4,170 Allied troops were evacuated from the Peloponnese Peninsula in southern Greece. 
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28 Apr 1941 WW2 Sergeant Jack Hinton of New Zealand 2nd Division led an attack to retake the quay at Kalamata, Greece, clearing out 3 machine gun nests and a mortar with grenades and capturing a 6-inch gun. He was shot in the stomach and taken prisoner. He would later win the Victoria Cross. 
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28 Apr 1941 WW2 Günther Altenburg was made the Reich Plenipotentiary for Greece. 
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28 Apr 1941 WW2 German armed merchant cruiser Pinguin attacked British ship Clan Buchanan in the Arabian Sea 1,200 miles east of Mogadishu, British Somaliland. Before the crew of 110 surrendered and the ship scuttled, a distress signal was sent out, and British warships were dispatched to the area to hunt for Pinguin. 
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28 Apr 1941 WW2 At 0600 hours, German bombers attacked Tobruk, Libya. During the day, German Deputy Chief of Staff Friedrich Paulus ordered Erwin Rommel to delay the planned ground assault on Tobruk. 
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28 Apr 1941 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down his 8th kill, a British Blenheim light bomber, over the water off Tobruk, Libya. 
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28 Apr 1941 WW2 German bombers attacked Malta overnight, badly damaging destroyer HMS Encounter in the drydock and destroying minesweeper HMS Fermoy. 
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28 Apr 1941 WW2 British minesweeping trawler HMT Caroline, manned by Dutch sailors, hit a mine and sank off Milford Haven, Wales, United Kingdom, killing the entire crew. 
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28 Apr 1941 WW2 Winston Churchill, without reference to the Chiefs of Staff, issued a directive stating that there is no need at the present time to make provisions for the defence of Malaya and Singapore. 
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28 Apr 1941 WW2 Charles Sweeney joined the United States Army Air Corps; he would later become the pilot of B-29 Superfortress bomber Bockscar that delivered the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. 
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28 Apr 1942 WW2 Coast Watchers reported that a Japanese flying boat base was being built in the upper Solomon Islands. 
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28 Apr 1942 WW2 Erwin Rommel received the Colonial Order of the Star of Italy. 
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28 Apr 1942 WW2 HMS Edinburgh departed Murmansk, Russia. 
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28 Apr 1942 WW2 Allied convoy PQ-15, which had departed Iceland two days prior, was joined by British battleship HMS King George V, American battleship USS Washington, British aircraft carrier HMS Victorious, 5 cruisers, 12 destroyers, and 4 submarines for its journey toward Murmansk, Russia; the convoy was spotted by German aircraft 200 miles northwest of Tromsø, Norway. On the same day, returning convoy QP-11 departed Kola Inlet in northern Russia; it was consisted of 13 merchant ships and was escorted by 6 destroyers, 4 corvettes, 1 trawler, and 4 minesweepers. 
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28 Apr 1942 WW2 German submarine U-136 sank Dutch ship Arundo 30 miles southeast of New York, New York, United States at 1535 hours; 6 were killed, 37 survived. 
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28 Apr 1942 WW2 Italian submarine Corallo sank Tunisian fishing boats Dar El Salam and Tunis with the deck gun off Cape Bon, Tunisia after taking off the crews. 
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28 Apr 1942 WW2 USS S-35 sailed west from Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska in response to a reported Japanese invasion fleet in the western Aleutian Islands, starting her second war patrol. 
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28 Apr 1942 WW2 At 1100 hours, Coast Watchers reported incoming Japanese aircraft flying south from the Lae, New Guinea area. Shortly after, 8 Japanese Type 1 bombers and 11 Zero fighters attacked Port Moresby, Australian Papua. In the ensuing combat, two of the Kittyhawk fighters attempted to engage in dogfights with Zero fighters at a high altitude, which caused their engines to stall, leading to the two fighters' crash. After the attack, Port Moresby personnel discovered one of the Japanese bombers had delivered a bag containing 395 letters written by prisoners of war kept in Rabaul, New Britain; actually two khaki bags of mail were dropped, but one of them fell in the water. 
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28 Apr 1942 WW2 Troops of the Chinese 28th Division arrived at Lashio in northern Burma. To the west, the Indian 17th Division crossed the Irrawaddy River at Sameikkon, Burma on its retreat toward India; Chinese 38th Division and British 7th Armoured Brigade formed a line between Sagaing and Ondaw to guard the retreat. 
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28 Apr 1942 WW2 The German Reichstag passed the legislation marking Adolf Hitler as the "Supreme Judge of the German People," formalizing his status above the law. 
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28 Apr 1942 WW2 88 British bombers (62 Wellington, 15 Stirling, 10 Hampden, 1 Halifax) attacked Kiel, Germany, destroying all three main shipyard facilities and killing 15; 6 bombers were destroyed in his mission. 
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28 Apr 1942 WW2 Japanese Naval General Staff's technology sub-committee reviewed the preliminary proposal of a underwater aircraft carrier. 
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28 Apr 1942 WW2 Naka departed Seletar Naval Base, Singapore and arrived at Keppel Harbor, Singapore. 
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28 Apr 1942 WW2 Axis aircraft attacked Malta, sinking British tug HMS West Dean. 
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28 Apr 1942 WW2 21 British Halifax and 12 Lancaster bombers attacked German battleship Tirpitz at Trondheim, Norway; two Halifax bombers were destroyed. 
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28 Apr 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at Takao, Taiwan. 
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28 Apr 1942 WW2 The historic Guildhall in York, England, United Kingdom was destroyed by fire started by a German air raid on the city. 
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28 Apr 1942 WW2 The keel of submarine Dragonet was laid down by the Cramp Shipbuilding Company at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. 
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28 Apr 1943 WW2 Sweden protested the mining her territorial waters by Germany. 
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28 Apr 1943 WW2 Konstantin Rokossovsky was promoted to the rank of general. 
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28 Apr 1943 WW2 Lance Corporal John Patrick Kenneally ignored his wounds to make a one-man assault at Djebel Bou Azoukaz, Tunisia which caused the enemy line to break. Despite being wounded again, Kenneally survived to collect his Victoria Cross. 
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28 Apr 1943 WW2 German submarine U-650 sighted Allied convoy ONS 5 in the North Atlantic at 0800 hours. During the day U-375, U-386, U-528, and U-537 sailed toward U-650 and began planning the attack. Radio chatter between these submarines alerted commander of ONS 5 escorts Captain Peter Gretton. 
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28 Apr 1943 WW2 Otto Skorzeny was promoted to the rank of Hauptsturmführer and was given command of the commandos of the Oranienburg Special Training Unit. 
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28 Apr 1943 WW2 USS Scorpion was ordered to return to her home port. 
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28 Apr 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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28 Apr 1943 WW2 Irako departed Truk, Caroline Islands for Iwo Jima, Japan with destroyer Tanikaze in escort. 
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28 Apr 1943 WW2 Satoru Anabuki, flying Ki-43 fighter "Fubuki", shot down a P-40 fighter over Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, his 35th victory. 
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28 Apr 1943 WW2 Viktor Abakumov personally arrested Major General Boris Teplinsky, the head of the Operational Department of the Air Force of the Siberian Military District on false charges of treason, conspiracy, and spreading anti-Soviet propaganda. 
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28 Apr 1944 WW2 Yamato arrived at Manila, unloaded troops and supplies, and then departed. 
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28 Apr 1944 WW2 USS Cassin Young sortied from Manus, Admiralty Islands with Task Force 58 for carrier strikes in the Central Pacific. 
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28 Apr 1944 WW2 Frank Knox passed away. 
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28 Apr 1944 WW2 The keel of USS Tirante was laid down at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, United States. 
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28 Apr 1944 WW2 Slapton Sands Incident: German E-boats torpedoed American landing ships in amphibious exercises off of the Devon coast in England, United Kingdom, killing 198 sailors and 551 soldiers. 
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28 Apr 1944 WW2 Matsu was commissioned into service. 
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28 Apr 1944 WW2 26 B-24 bombers of the US 14th Air Force escorted by 10 P-51 fighters attacked Zhengzhou, Henan, China. Fighters of the Japanese 9th Sentai at nearby Xinxiang failed to react due to the faulty radar at Kaifeng. Storage warehouses, the Bawangcheng Bridge, and another nearby bridge on the Yellow River were damaged. 
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28 Apr 1944 WW2 USS Iowa completed her escort mission for carriers off New Guinea, Dutch East Indies. 
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28 Apr 1944 WW2 A force of 4,000 Chinese troops, 1,400 American troops (Merrill's Marauders), and 600 Kachin scouts began marching for Myitkyina, Burma. 
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28 Apr 1944 WW2 Oberleutnant Wilhelm Johnen, Staffelkapitän of German night fighter Squadron 5./NJG 5, whilst chasing an RAF bomber strayed into Swiss airspace where he was hit by flak and forced to land at Dübendorf where his Messerschmitt Bf 110G-4B./R3, which was equipped with the latest Lichtenstein SN-2b radar, was interned by the Swiss authorities. Fearful that the top-secret radar (which was the Luftwaffe's answer to the Allies "Window" anti-radar system) might fall into the hands of the Allies, the Germans eventually traded twelve new Bf 109G fighters in exchange for a Swiss guarantee that the interned aircraft with its new radar would be completely destroyed. 
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28 Apr 1944 WW2 Allied convoy RA-59 departed the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. 
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28 Apr 1944 WW2 The South African and Rhodesian prime ministers arrived in London, England, United Kingdom for the Imperial Conference. 
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28 Apr 1944 WW2 USS Franklin entered New York Navy Yard, New York, United States for repairs. 
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28 Apr 1944 WW2 Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd visited Franklin Roosevelt at Bernard Baruch's estate Hobcaw Barony near Georgetown, South Carolina, United States. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 Sunken cruiser Köln's turrets fired against enemy troops advancing at Wilhelmshaven, Germany (near Neuenburg and Bockhorn). 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Trepang sank Japanese Transport Number 146 in the Yellow Sea. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 Canadian First Army captured Emden and Wilhelmshaven, Germany. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 Himmler's attempts to negotiate peace with the Western Allies was discovered Hitler, who stripped him of all his titles and ranks and ordered for his arrest. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 Mussolini was hanged by Italian partisans along with his mistress Clara Petacci and a dozen of his cabinet members. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 A group of Austrian resistance fighters became the last victims of gassings at Mauthausen Concentration Camp. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 Japanese special attack aircraft damaged 5 destroyers, 2 hospital ships, and victory ship Bozeman Victory off Okinawa, Japan. None of the four G4M bombers carrying Ohka special attack aircraft hit their targets. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sennet sank Japanese repair ship Hatsushima south of Japan, hitting her with 2 of 3 torpedoes fired. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 In Burma, the XV Corps, which had been leapfrogging islands along the coast, reached and captured Taungup. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops captured Allanmyo, Burma. Elsewhere, Indian 17th Division reached the heavily-defended Pegu, where the Japanese built the final major stronghold north of Rangoon, which was 47 miles to the south. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Alabama arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 American bombers attacked Japanese shipping at Saigon, Indochina, sinking 1 tanker and 6 other vessels. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 US Seventh Army captured Augsburg, Germany. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 In Berlin, Germany, Marshal Ivan Koniev's men had virtually cleared the Potsdamer Strasse and Soviet troops were now within a mile of the Chancellery and the Reichstag, spurred on by Joseph Stalin's explicit wish that the Soviet flag should fly there in time for the May Day celebrations. In the bunker under the Chancellery, Adolf Hitler awaited reports for the progress of the counterattack he had ordered Walther Wenck to commence; he would receive no such report as he counterattack never took place. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 Robert von Greim departed Berlin, Germany. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sunfish arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her eleventh war patrol. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 In Italy, British Eighth Army captured Venice and US Fifth Army captured Brescia. German Colonel General Heinrich von Vietinghoff dispatched a messenger from Bolzano, Italy toward the Allies lines seeking a ceasefire. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 Brazilian infantry and US tanks attacked the remnants of German 148th Infantry Division at Fornovo di Taro, Italy. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 Captain Chojuro Takahashi was relieved as the commanding officer of light carrier Ryuho; Captain Hojima was assigned to oversee the damaged carrier until the end of the war. On the same day, the carrier was attacked by US aircraft at Etajima near Kure, Japan, receiving no damage. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Springer attacked Japanese transports in the harbor at Tomie (now part of Goto), Nagasaki, Japan; she scored no hits on the transports, but she was able to sink Submarine Chaser No. 17 during the counterattack, hitting her with 1 or 2 of 6 torpedoes. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 In Holland an unofficial truce commenced, allowing British and Canadian convoys through the German lines unmolested to deliver food, fuel and vital supplies to the starving Dutch civilian population. 
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28 Apr 1945 WW2 Hungarian Count István Bethlen was transferred to Moscow, Russia for interrogation due to his past pro-British tendencies. 
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28 Apr 1946 WW2 Chinese Nationalist troops launched a new offensive in northeastern China against Chinese communist forces. 
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28 Apr 1948 WW2 ShCh-307 was converted to a floating charging station with the new designation PZS-5. 
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28 Apr 1960 RELIGIOUS The 100th General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church (PCUS) passed a resolution declaring that sexual relations within marriage -- without the intention of procreation -- were not sinful.
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