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This day in history: 28 April

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Key facts

356 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 28 April.
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2004: CBS News releases evidence of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse. The photographs show rape and abuse from the American troops over Iraqi detainees.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Aphrodisius and companions

Christian feast day: April 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Blessed Marie Louise Trichet

Christian feast day: Gianna Beretta Molla

Christian feast day: Kirill of Turov (Orthodox, added to Roman Martyrology in 1969)

Christian feast day: Louis de Montfort

Christian feast day: Pamphilus of Sulmona

Christian feast day: Peter Chanel

Christian feast day: Vitalis and Valeria of Milan

Mujahideen Victory Day (Afghanistan)

National Heroes Day (Barbados)

Events

2004CBS News releases evidence of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse. The photographs show rape and abuse from the American troops over Iraqi detainees.

1996Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people and wounding 23 others.

1996Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 41⁄2 hour videotaped testimony for the defense.

1994Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving US secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.

1991Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-39, the first unclassified shuttle mission for the United States Department of Defense.

1988Near 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.

1986High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.

1983The West German news magazine Stern begins publishing excerpts from the purported diaries of Adolf Hitler, later revealed to be forgeries.

1978The President of Afghanistan, Mohammad Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.

1977The 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.

1975General Cao Văn Viên, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closes in on victory.

1973The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, recorded in Abbey Road Studios goes to number one on the US Billboard chart, beginning a record-breaking 741-week chart run.

1970Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to take part in the Cambodian campaign.

1969Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.

1967Vietnam War: Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses his induction into the United States Army and is subsequently stripped of his championship and license.

1965United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate US Army troops.

1952Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO in order to campaign in the 1952 United States presidential election.

1952The 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.

1952The Treaty of San Francisco comes into effect, restoring Japanese sovereignty and ending its state of war with most of the Allies of World War II.

1949The 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.

1948Igor Stravinsky conducts the premiere of his American ballet, Orpheus at the New York City Center.

1947Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.

1945Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are shot dead by Walter Audisio, a member of the Italian resistance movement.

1945The Holocaust: Nazi Germany carries out its final use of gas chambers to execute 33 Upper Austrian socialist and communist leaders in Mauthausen concentration camp.

1944World War II: Nine German E-boats attack US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.

1941The Ustaše massacre nearly 200 Serbs in the village of Gudovac, the first massacre of their genocidal campaign against Serbs of the Independent State of Croatia.

1937South African medical researcher Max Theiler develops the yellow fever vaccine at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City.

1930The Independence Producers host the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas.

1923Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.

1920The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic is founded.

1910Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in the United Kingdom.

1887A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of Wilhelm I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.

1881Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.

1869Chinese 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.

1859The sailing clipper ship Pomona is wrecked on the coast of Ireland with the loss of 424 of the 448 passengers and crew aboard.

1858The Bawani Imli massacre, where 52 Indian freedom fighters are hanged to death on a tamarind tree by British colonial forces.

1796The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.

1794Sardinians, headed by Giovanni Maria Angioy, start a revolution against the Savoy domination, expelling Viceroy Balbiano and his officials from Cagliari, the capital and largest city of the island.

1792France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.

1789The Mutiny on the Bounty occurs, with the ship's captain, Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors, set adrift, and the rebel crew setting sail for Tahiti. Eventually the majority of rebels sail for Pitcairn Island.

Born on this day

2001Anthony Volpe, American baseball player

2000Alek Thomas, American baseball player

2000Victoria De Angelis, Italian musician

1998Song Yu-bin, South Korean singer and actor

1997Denzel Ward, American football player

1997Shane McClanahan, American baseball player

1995Connor Clifton, American ice hockey player

1995Melanie Martinez, American singer

1994Jakob Butturff, American bowler (died 2026)

1994Wonpil, South Korean musician

1993Eva Samková, Czech snowboarder

1993Matt Chapman, American baseball player

1992Blake Bortles, American football player

1992DeMarcus Lawrence, American football player

1989Emil Salomonsson, Swedish footballer

1989Kim Sung-kyu, South Korean singer

1988Jonathan Biabiany, French footballer

1988Juan Mata, Spanish footballer

1987Bradley Johnson, English footballer

1987Daequan Cook, American basketball player

1987Drew Gulak, American wrestler

1987Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Indian actress and model

1987Zoran Tošić, Serbian footballer

1986Jenna Ushkowitz, Korean-American actress, singer, and dancer

1986Roman Polák, Czech ice hockey player

1985Deividas Stagniūnas, Lithuanian ice dancer

1985Lucas Jakubczyk, German sprinter and long jumper

1984Dmitri Torbinski, Russian footballer

1983David Freese, American baseball player

1983Josh Brookes, Australian motorcycle racer

1983Roger Johnson, English footballer

1983Thomas Waldrom, New Zealand-English rugby player

1982Chris Kaman, American basketball player

1982Nikki Grahame, English model and journalist (died 2021)

1981Jessica Alba, American model and actress

1980Bradley Wiggins, English cyclist

1979Scott Fujita, American football player and sportscaster

1978Lauren Laverne, English singer and television and radio host

1977Titus O'Neil, American wrestler and football player

1975Michael Walchhofer, Austrian skier

Died on this day

2024Brian McCardie, Scottish actor and writer (born 1965)

2021El Risitas, Spanish comedian (born 1956)

2021Michael Collins, American astronaut (born 1930)

2019John Singleton, American film director (born 1968)

2019Richard Lugar, American politician (born 1932)

2018James Hylton, American race car driver (born 1934)

2017Mariano Gagnon, American Catholic priest and author (born 1929)

2016Jenny Diski, English author and screenwriter (born 1947)

2015Antônio Abujamra, Brazilian actor and director (born 1932)

2015Marcia Brown, American author and illustrator (born 1918)

2015Michael J. Ingelido, American general (born 1916)

2014Barbara Fiske Calhoun, American cartoonist and painter (born 1919)

2014Dennis Kamakahi, American guitarist and composer (born 1953)

2014Edgar Laprade, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1919)

2014Frederic Schwartz, American architect, co-designed Empty Sky (born 1951)

2014Idris Sardi, Indonesian violinist and composer (born 1938)

2014Jack Ramsay, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (born 1925)

2014Ryan Tandy, Australian rugby player (born 1981)

2014William Honan, American journalist and author (born 1930)

2013Bernie Wood, New Zealand journalist and author (born 1939)

2013Brad Lesley, American baseball player (born 1958)

2013Fredrick McKissack, American author (born 1939)

2013Jack Shea, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928)

2013János Starker, Hungarian-American cellist and educator (born 1924)

2013John C. Reynolds, American computer scientist and academic (born 1935)

2013Paulo Vanzolini, Brazilian singer-songwriter and zoologist (born 1924)

2012Aberdeen Shikoyi, Kenyan rugby player (born 1985)

2012Al Ecuyer, American football player (born 1937)

2012Fred Allen, New Zealand rugby player and coach (born 1920)

2012Matilde Camus, Spanish poet and author (born 1919)

Quote of the day

“Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.”

Seneca

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