This Day in History for 28th April

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 157

357 - Emperor Constantius II visits Rome
585 - War between Lydia & Media ended by solar eclipse
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 Neth-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
1686 - 1st volume of Isaac Newton's "Principia" published
1770 - Capt James Cook aboad Endeavor lands at Botany Bay in Australia
1788 - Maryland becomes 7th state to ratify constitution
1789 - Fletcher Christian leads Mutiny on HMS Bounty & Capt William Bligh
1796 - Cease fire of Cherasco
1804 - 31 English ships sail Suriname river demanding transition colony from the Dutch
Captain/Explorer James Cook 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
1914 - W H Carrier patents air conditioner
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 - Kurd rebels surrender to Turkish army
1925 - Netherlands & Great Britain return to gold standard
1930 - 1st night organized baseball game (Independence KS)
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 surrenders
1942 - "WW II" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll
1942 - Nightly "dim-out" begins along 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 commands 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)
37th US President Richard Nixon 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 OECO
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
Singer & Actress Barbra Streisand 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 & L 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

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 195

1442 - Edward IV, King of England (1461-70, 71-83)
1545 - Yi Sun-sin, Korean admiral (d. 1598)
1592 - George Villiers, 1st duke of Buckingham/English admiral
1630 - Charles Cotton, English poet (d. 1687)
1686 - Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1721)
1715 - Franz Sparry, composer
1748 - Lorenz Justinian Ott, composer
1750 - Paul Ignaz Kurzinger, composer
1753 - Franz K Achard, German physicist
1757 - Claus Nielsen Schali, composer
1758 - James Monroe, Westmoreland Va, (D-R) 5th pres (1817-25)
1765 - Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician (b. 1834)
1770 - Nikita P Panin, Russian diplomat/minister of Foreign affairs
1774 - Francis Baily, describer of "Baily's Beads" during solar eclipse
1795 - Charles Sturt, England, explorer (Australia)
1809 - Conradus Leemans, Dutch archaeologist
1810 - Daniel Ullmann, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1812 - Daniel Henry Rucker, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1910
1815 - Andrew Jackson Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1819 - Ezra Abbot, American Bible scholar (d. 1884)
1825 - James Winning McMillan, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1826 - Alexander Stadtfeld, composer
1838 - Tobias M Carel Asser, Holland, advocate of world law (Nobel 1911)
1842 - Louis PMFG of Orleans, earl of Brazil (1870-89)
1846 - Johann E Backlund, Swedish astronomer (planets/asteroids)
1848 - Ludvig Schytte, composer
1864 - William F A Ellison, Irish clergyman/director (Armagh Observatory)
1868 - Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (d. 1908)
1870 - Hermann Suter, composer
1873 - Harold Bauer, English/US pianist (Beethoven-Association)
1874 - Karl Kraus, writer
1874 - Sidney Toler, Warrensburg MO, actor (Madame X, Meeting at Midnight)
1876 - Frank Cavanagh, one of football's coaching greats
1878 - Lionel Barrymore, [Blythe], Phila, actor (Free Soul, Dr Kildare)
1879 - Edgar Tytgat, Flemish painter/etcher
1879 - Franz Arnold, writer
1882 - Alberto Pirelli, Italian industrialist
1886 - Erich Salomon, German photographer
1888 - Henry DG Crerar, Canadian general (WW I/Italy/Netherland)
1889 - Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, premier/dictator Portugal (1932-68)
1889 - Bryant Washburn, Chicago, actor (Exposure, Millionaire Kid, Nabonga)
1889 - Karel WFM Doorman, Dutch rear admiral
1892 - Georges Antoine, composer
1892 - John Jacob Niles, composer
1892 - Joseph Dunninger, NYC, mentalist (Amazing Dunninger)
1897 - Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician (d. 1986)
1900 - Bruno Apitz, writer
1900 - Jan Hendrik Oort, Dutch astronomer (hypothesized "Oort Cloud")
1900 - Maurice Thorez, secretary-general (French Communist Party)
1901 - Corry Vonk, [Cornelia D], wife of Wim Kan (ABC-cabaret)
1902 - Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (d. 1979)
1906 - Bartholomeus J "Bart" Bok, Dutch/US astronomer (Milky Way)
1906 - Pierre [Louis] Boileau, Paris France, novelist (Vertigo)
1906 - Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (d. 1978)
1906 - Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (d. 1999)
1908 - Arnoud Breeveld, Suriname bishop
1908 - Jack Fingleton, cricketer (Australian opener of 30's)
1908 - Michael T Fitzmaurice, Chicago IL, actor (Reported Missing, 14 Hours)
Industrialist Oskar Schindler (1908) 1908 - Oskar Schindler, Zwittau, Moravia, Austria-Hungary, Austrian businessman and subject of the novel Schindler's Ark and the film Schindler's List. (d. 1974)
1910 - Sam Merwin, Jr., American mystery fiction writer (d. 1996)
1911 - Frans Vroons, actor/tenor/director (Neth Opera)
1911 - Lee Falk, American comic strip writer (d. 1999)
1912 - Odette Hallowes, British classified agent in France (WW II)
1914 - Skuli Halldorsson, composer
1916 - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (d. 1993)
1917 - Joop Waasdorp, Dutch writer (Naked Life)
1917 - Robert Woodruff Anderson, New York, writer (Tea & Sympathy, Never Sang for My Father)
1917 - Robert Cornthwaite, St Helen Oregon, actor (Thing, War of the Worlds)
1920 - Nan Merriman, US/Neth singer (Arturo Toscanini NBC Orch)
1921 - Rowland Evans, White Marsh Pa, news reporter (CNN-Evans & Novak)
1922 - Guillaume Jorissen, Flemish politician (Volksunie)
1922 - Iser J Koepermann, Russian/US world checkers champ (1958-68, 75-76)
1922 - William S Broomfield, (Rep-R-MI, 1956- )
1922 - William Guarnere, WWII Veteran
1922 - Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (d. 1987)
1923 - Adele Mara, Dearborn Mich, actress/singer (Cool Million, Wheels)
1923 - Wolfgang Steffen, composer
1924 - Kenneth David Kaunda, founder/president (Zambia, 1964-91)
1924 - Donatas Banionis, Lithuanian actor
1925 - Richard C Sarafian, NYC, director/actor (Foley Square)
1926 - Harper Lee, author (To Kill a Mockingbird)
1926 - Blossom Dearie, American jazz singer
1927 - Garfield Weston, English industrial/billionaire (Twinings Tea)
1928 - Yves Klein, French sculptor/painter
1928 - Eugene M. Shoemaker, American planetary scientist (d. 1997)
1929 - Carolyn Jones, Amarillo Texas, actress (Morticia-Addams Family)
1930 - Christopher John Magenis Headington, composer
1930 - James Baker 3, Houston, Sec of Treasury (1985-88), Sec State (1989-92)
1932 - Marek Kopelent, composer
1933 - Karl Heinz Wahren, composer
1933 - Oliver "Bops Junior" Jackson, drummer
1934 - Lois Duncan, American novelist
1936 - John Martin Tchicai, composer, (d. 2012)
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (1937) 1937 - Saddam Hussein, [At-Takriti], Al-Awja, president of Iraq (1979-2003)
1938 - Beverly F Albert, architect
1938 - Madge Sinclair, Kingston Jamaica, actress (Bell-Roots, Trapper John)
1938 - Fred Dibnah, English television personality (d. 2004)
1941 - Ann-Margret, Valsjobya Sweden, actress (Bye Bye Birdie, Tommy)
1941 - K. Barry Sharpless, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1941 - Lucien Aimar, French cyclist

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 4 of 4

1938 - King Zog of Albania marries Countess Geraldine of Hungary
1950 - King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand marries Mon Rajawongse Sirikit at Sra Pathum Palace after a quiet engagement in Lausanne, Switzerland July 19, 1949.
1990 - Guns & Roses' Axl marries Erin Everly (annulled same year)
2007 - Reality TV producer Mark Burnett (46) weds former "Touched By An Angel" actress Roma Downey (47) in a private ceremony at their home in Malibu

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

1994 - Lisa Marie Presley separates from Danny Keough

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 97 of 97

1089 - Dirk de Grote, bishop of Verdun/Basel/archbishop of Trier, dies
1109 - Hugo van Cluny, 6th abbott of Cluny/saint, dies
1192 - Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem (b. mid 1140s)
1498 - Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, English politician
1533 - Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (b. 1461)
1710 - Thomas Betterton, English actor
1716 - Louis de Montfort, French catholic priest (b. 1673)
1726 - Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (b. 1653)
1741 - Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish General and statesman (b. 1668)
1770 - Marie AC de Camargo, Spanish/Italian/Belgian dancer, dies at 60
1772 - Johann Friedrich Struensee, physician of Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1737)
1781 - Cornelius Harnett, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723)
1799 - Francois Giroust, composer, dies at 62
1804 - Hans Gram, composer, dies at 49
1813 - Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (b. 1745)
1816 - Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher (b. 1862)
1841 - Peter Chanel, French saint (b. 1803)
1843 - William Wallace, Scottish mathematician (rights of Wallace), dies
1853 - Ludwig Tieck, writer, dies at 79
1858 - Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (b. 1801)
1865 - Samuel Cunard, Canadian-born British shipping magnate (b. 1787)
1873 - A Manzoni, writer, dies at 88
1881 - Robert W Ollinger, US warden/last victim of Billy the Kid, dies
1887 - Carl Ferdinand Pohl, composer, dies at 67
1896 - Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian, dies
1905 - Fitzhugh Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1835)
1925 - Louis F J Bouwmeester, actor (Shakespeare), dies
1926 - Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (b. 1857)
1933 - Robin Irvine, actor (Easy Virtue), dies at 31
1935 - Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, Scotish composer, dies at 87
1936 - Foead I, king of Egypt (1922-36), dies
1944 - Frank Knox, U.S. Vice-Presidential candidate (b. 1874)
Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini (1945) 1945 - Benito Mussolini, Fascist leader (Italy), shot after trial at 61
1945 - Claretta Petacci, mistress of Mussolini, executed
1945 - Hans Bloesch, writer, dies
1945 - Roberto Farinacci, Italian fascist (b. 1892)
1946 - Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (b. 1870)
1949 - Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (shot) (b. 1888)
1954 - Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1879)
1955 - Lode Cantens, Flemish playwrite (Gnomes of the City), dies at 43
1957 - Heinz "Pritzl" Bär, German fighter pilot (b. 1913)
1960 - Anton Pancake, astronomer/marxist theorist, dies at 87
1964 - Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector (b. 1888)
1965 - Ferdinand Bordewijk, Dutch lawyer/writer (Character), dies at 80
1966 - Ralph Bunker, actor (Ghost Goes West), dies of a stroke at 77
1969 - Johannes Rontgen, composer, dies at 70
1970 - Ed Begley, actor (Mr Koppel-Leave it to Larry), dies at 69
1973 - Pat Henning, actor (Goodyear TV Playhouse), dies at 62
1973 - Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (b. 1893)
1974 - Paul Page, actor (Girl from Havanna, Moth), dies at 70
1975 - Jan A de Jonge, Dutch historian, dies at 48
1976 - Eugen Roth, writer, dies at 81
1977 - Ricardo Cortez, actor/director (Bad Company, Flesh), dies at 87
1979 - Feliks Roderyk Labunski, composer, dies at 86
1980 - Dee Carroll, [Betty Jean Marsh], actress (Mad Bomber, Split), dies
1981 - Mickey "Toy Bulldog" Walker, welterweight champ (1922-26) dies at 79
1982 - Bert van Dongen, [Abraham J Cohen], Dutch singer/actor, dies at 66
1982 - EW "Nobby" Clark, Engl cricketer (32 wickets in 8 Tests 1929-34), dies
1983 - Ron James, cricketer (NSW's Sheffield Shield capt 1949-50), dies
1984 - Glen H Taylor, US senator/VP candidate (1948), dies at 80
1984 - Silvia A Warner, writer, dies
1987 - Ben Linder, development worker, murdered by Contras in Nicaragua
1988 - B. W. Stevenson, American country singer (b. 1949)
1989 - Olaff J de Landell [JB van Sparwoude], Dutch writer, dies at 77
1990 - Jean Blazer Baney, entertainer, dies
1991 - Floyd B McKissick, US founder (CORE), dies
1991 - Ken Curtis, actor (Festus-Gunsmoke), dies at 74
1991 - Steve Broidy, American motion picture executive (b. 1905)
1992 - Francis Bacon, Irish/British abstract painter, dies at 82
1992 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer (St Francois d'Assise), dies at 83
1992 - Iceberg Slim, American writer (b. 1918)
1993 - Jim Valvano, basketball coach (NC State), dies of cancer at 47
1995 - Andrew Salkey, author editor/broadcaster, dies at 67
1995 - Henry C Rogers, press Agent, dies at 81
1995 - Peaches Roy Davis, baseball pitcher, dies at 89
1996 - Giles Grangier, film director, dies at 84
1996 - Henry Clarke, fashion photographer, dies at 75
1996 - Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro, politician, dies at 80
1996 - William E Colby, director of CIA (1973-76), dies
1997 - Susan Seddon Boulet, artist, dies of cancer at 45
1998 - Ramakant Desai, Indian cricketer (b. 1939)
1999 - Rory Calhoun, American actor (b. 1922)
1999 - Alf Ramsey, English football manager (b. 1920)
1999 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1921)
2000 - Penelope Fitzgerald, English writer (b. 1916)
2000 - Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish doctor, researcher and politician (b. 1925)
2002 - Alexander Lebed, Russian general (b. 1950)
2002 - Lou Thesz, American wrestler (b. 1916)
2005 - Chris Candido, American wrestler (b. 1972)
2005 - Taraki Sivaram, Tamil journalist of Sri Lanka (b. 1959)
2005 - Percy Heath, American jazz bassist (Modern Jazz Quartet) (b. 1923)
2007 - Dabbs Greer, American actor (b. 1917)
2007 - Tommy Newsom, American bandleader (b. 1929)
2007 - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (b. 1912)
2009 - Valeria Peter Predescu, Romanian singer (b. 1947)
2009 - Ekaterina Maximova, Russian ballerina (b. 1939)
2012 - Patricia Medina, English actress, dies from natural causes at 92