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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 confirmed by election. Killing carried out by Hashshashin.
28 Apr 1202
King Philip II expels King John of England (Lackland) from France
28 Apr 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.
28 Apr 1376
English parliament demands supervision of royal spending
28 Apr 1376
English Good Parliament begins meeting in London will sit till 10th July then the longest-sitting English parliament
28 Apr 1503
Battle at Cerignalo Spanish army under G Cordoba beats France
28 Apr 1521
Treaty of Worms Emperor Charles names his brother Ferdinand Archduke of Netherlands-Austria
28 Apr 1611
Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas The Catholic University of the Philippines oldest existing university in Asia and largest Catholic university in the world
28 Apr 1635
Virginia Governor John Harvey accused of treason and removed from office
28 Apr 1655
English General-at-Sea Robert Blake (he was never titled Admiral) beats North African pirate fleet
28 Apr 1788
Maryland becomes 7th state to ratify US constitution
28 Apr 1804
31 British ships sail up Suriname river demanding transition colony from the Dutch
28 Apr 1847
George B. Vashon becomes 1st African American to enter New York State Bar
28 Apr 1855
1st veterinary college in US incorporated in Boston
28 Apr 1865
Giacomo Meyerbeers opera LAfricaine premieres in Paris
28 Apr 1892
1st performance of Antonin Dvorks overture Carneval
28 Apr 1901
Clevelands Bock Baker gives up a record 23 singles as White Sox beat Blues (Cleveland Blues) 13-1
28 Apr 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 1040 AM on this date
28 Apr 1910
First night air flight by Claude Grahame-White in England
28 Apr 1914
181 die in coal mine collapse at Eccles West Virginia
28 Apr 1919
1st jump with US Army Air Corps (rip-cord type) parachute (Les Irvin)
28 Apr 1922
WOI (Ames Iowa) countrys 1st licensed educational radio station
28 Apr 1923
Wembley Stadium opens - Bolton Wanderers vs West Ham United (FA Cup)
28 Apr 1924
119 die in coal mine disaster at Benwood West Virginia
28 Apr 1925
Netherlands & Great Britain return to gold standard
28 Apr 1930
1st night organized baseball game played in Independence Kansas
28 Apr 1931
Program for woman athletes approved for 1932 Olympics track & field
28 Apr 1934
Tigers Goose Goslin grounds into 4 straight double plays
28 Apr 1937
1st animated cartoon electric sign displayed (NYC)
28 Apr 1937
1st commercial flight across Pacific operated by Pan Am
28 Apr 1940
SS-Obersturmbannfhrer (lieutenant colonel) Rudolf Hss (not Hess diferent Nazi) becomes commandant of concentration camp Auschwitz
28 Apr 1942
German Luftwaffe estimated to have flown over 11 thousand sorties against Malta since 20th March
28 Apr 1943
1st performance of Marc Blitzsteins Freedom Morning
28 Apr 1943
German-Italian counter offensive in North Africa
28 Apr 1943
US 34th Division occupies Djebel el Hara North Tunisia
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 off Slapton Sands Devon.
28 Apr 1945
British commandos attack Elbe & occupy Lauenburg
28 Apr 1949
Former Philippine First Lady Aurora Quezon 61 assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband her daughter and 10 others also killed
28 Apr 1952
St Louis Browns lend 2 black minor leaguers to Hankyu Braves of Japan
28 Apr 1955
WBIQ TV channel 10 in Birmingham AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
28 Apr 1957
WSOC TV channel 9 in Charlotte North Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting
28 Apr 1957
4th National Film Awards (India) Kabuliwala wins the Golden Lotus
28 Apr 1958
Vanguard TV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
28 Apr 1959
KLOE TV channel 10 in Goodland KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
28 Apr 1959
KPLR TV channel 11 in Saint Louis MO (IND) begins broadcasting
28 Apr 1959
6th National Film Awards (India) Sagar Sangamey wins the Golden Lotus
28 Apr 1960
Christine opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 12 performances
28 Apr 1960
WIPM TV channel 3 in Mayaguez PR (PBS) begins broadcasting
28 Apr 1961
Lt Col Gueorgui Mossolov takes E-66A to 34714 m altitude
28 Apr 1961
Warren Spahn pitches 2nd no hitter at 41 beats SF Giants 1-0
28 Apr 1963
17th Tony Awards Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum win
28 Apr 1965
Lindsey Nelson broadcasts game at Astrodome from a hanging gondola
28 Apr 1965
Richard Helms replaces Marshall S Carter as deputy director of CIA
28 Apr 1965
US marines invade Dominican Republic stay until October 1966
28 Apr 1965
William F Raborn Jr replaces John A McCone as 7th head of CIA
28 Apr 1966
20th NBA Championship Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers 4 games to 3
28 Apr 1966
Cleve ties record with 10th straight win since Opening Day
28 Apr 1966
OCAM Common Afro-Mauritian Organization forms
28 Apr 1969
King Crismson with Greg Lake & Ian McDonald debuts
28 Apr 1969
Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence ONeill resigns and is replaced later by James Chichester-Clark.
28 Apr 1971
Dutch social democratic partyD66DS70 win parliamentary election
28 Apr 1971
Samuel Lee Gravely Jr becomes 1st black admiral in US Navy
28 Apr 1972
Courts award 1968 Kentucky Derby prize money to 2nd place winner due to the winner being given drugs before the race
28 Apr 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)
28 Apr 1975
South-Vietnam Gen Duong Van Minh sworn in as president till April 30
28 Apr 1977
Christopher Boyce convicted for selling secrets
28 Apr 1977
Andreas Baader and members of terrorist group the Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Gang) jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly 2 years in Stuttgart Germany
28 Apr 1977
The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.
28 Apr 1980
Cyrus Vance Carters US Secretary of State resigns
28 Apr 1981
Were Fighting Back premieres on CBS in the US based on the formation of the Guardian Angels
28 Apr 1983
Argentine government declares all 15-30000 missing persons dead
28 Apr 1984
La Tragedie de Carmen closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 187 performances
28 Apr 1985
Billy Martin named NY Yankee manager for 4th time
28 Apr 1985
Fernando Valenzuela sets record of 41 scoreless inn to start season
28 Apr 1987
NBA announces expansion to Charlotte NC & Miami Fla in 1988 & Minneapolis Minn & Orlando Fla in 1989
28 Apr 1987
American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
28 Apr 1987
NFL Draft University of Miami quarterback Vinny Testaverde first pick by Tampa Bay Buccaneers
28 Apr 1988
Chess opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 68 performances
28 Apr 1988
Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight kills stewardess
28 Apr 1988
Baltimore Orioles lose AL record 21 games in a row
28 Apr 1988
NJ Devils set all time playoff mark for penalty minutes
28 Apr 1989
Argentina hit by rocketing inflation runs out of money
28 Apr 1989
Iran protests sale of Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
28 Apr 1990
Chorus Line closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 6137 performances
28 Apr 1990
Boston Celtics score most points in a playoff beat NY Knicks 157-128
28 Apr 1990
Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Dave Ferraro
28 Apr 1990
Last issue of Dutch communist daily De Waarheid (The Truth)
28 Apr 1991
Gypsy opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 105 performances
28 Apr 1991
Taking Steps closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 78 performances
28 Apr 1992
Brewers beat Blue Jays 22-2 with AL record 31 hits in 9 innings
28 Apr 1992
Italian President Francesco Cossiga formally resigns
28 Apr 1993
Tango Passion opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 5 performances
28 Apr 1993
Carlo Ciampi forms Italian government with ex-communists
28 Apr 1993
Zambian plane crashes at Libreville Gabon 30 soccer players die
28 Apr 1994
Freddy Thielemans sworn in as Mayor of Brussels Belgium
28 Apr 1996
Big opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 193 performances
28 Apr 1996
Martin Bryant shoots & kills 35 in Port Arthur Tasmania
28 Apr 2001
Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the worlds first space tourist.
28 Apr 2007
NFL Draft LSU quarterback JaMarcus Russell first pick by Oakland Raiders
28 Apr 2011
NFL Draft Auburn quarterback Cam Newton first pick by Carolina Panthers
28 Apr 2012
Tent collapse in St Louis Missouri kills one and injures 110 people
28 Apr 2013
8 people are killed and dozens are injured after Taliban attacks on election candidates in Pakistan
28 Apr 2013
3 people are killed and 14 are injured after a gas explosions causes a building to collapse in Reims France
28 Apr 2018
Shaquem Griffin is the first one-handed person to be drafted into the NFL for the Seattle Seahawks
28 Apr 2018
Worlds largest child sacrifice 140 remains uncovered by archaeologists near Trujillo Peru dating back 550 years to Chim civilisation
28 Apr 2018
Indian government announces electricity has now reached every Indian village
28 Apr 1943
US 34th Division occupies Djebel el Hara North Tunisia
28 Apr 1957
LPGA Western Open Womens Golf Montgomery CC Patty Berg wins her 6th WO by 1 stroke from Wiffi Smith
28 Apr 1990
Professional Bowlers Association Tournament of Champions Dave Ferraro beats Tony Westlake 226203
28 Apr 1996
In Australias worst massacre in modern history Martin Bryant shoots and kills 35 in Port Arthur Tasmania. Leads to a compulsory gun buy back program and major changes to gun control laws.
28 Apr 2002
The Tradition Senior Mens Golf Superstition Mountain G&CC Jim Thorpe wins his lone career major title with birdie on first playoff hole against John Jacobs
28 Apr 2016
NFL Draft Cal quarterback Jared Goff first pick by Los Angeles Rams
28 Apr 2019
Largest demonstrations since 2014 in Hong Kong over plans to change law to send suspects to mainland China for trial
28 Apr 2019
Spanish general election no party wins a majority Socialists under Pedro Sanchez win most with 29%
28 Apr 1892
1st performance of Antonn Dvoks overture Carnival Overture
28 Apr 1940
SS-Obersturmbannfhrer (lieutenant colonel) Rudolf Hss (not Hess different Nazi) becomes commandant of concentration camp Auschwitz
28 Apr 1965
Lindsey Nelson broadcasts baseball game at Astrodome from a hanging gondola
28 Apr 2019
American diver Victor Vescovo makes the deepest dive ever to the bottom of the Mariana trench at 10927m (35849ft) and finds a plastic bag
28 Apr 2020
US Department of Defense releases three declassified videos of possible UFOs from 2004 and 2015
28 Apr 2020
Argentina bans all commercial domestic and international flights until September 1 because of COVID-19
28 Apr 1180
Philip II of France (14) marries first wife Isabella of Hainault (10) at Bapaume
28 Apr 1503
Battle at Cerignalo Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernndez de Crdoba defeats a French force led by Louis dArmagnac Duke of Nemours
28 Apr 1960
Webster and Fains musical Christine based on Hilda Wernhers novel My Indian Family opens at 46th St Theater NYC runs for 12 performances
28 Apr 1965
Richard Helms replaces Marshall S. Carter as deputy director of CIA
28 Apr 1965
William F. Raborn Jr. replaces John A. McCone as 7th head of CIA
28 Apr 1966
Cleveland ties record with 10th straight win since Opening Day
28 Apr 1969
Rock band King Crimson with Robert Fripp Greg Lake & Ian McDonald debuts
28 Apr 1971
Samuel Lee Gravely Jr. becomes 1st black admiral in US Navy
28 Apr 1977
American defense employee Christopher John Boyce convicted for selling secrets to the Soviet Union
28 Apr 1980
US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance resigns in protest over the Iran hostage rescue attempt
28 Apr 1990
Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Klebans A Chorus Line closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 6137 performances
28 Apr 2021
NASAs Parker Solar Probe becomes the first spacecraft to cross the Alfvn critical boundary the outer atmosphere of the Sun [1]
28 Apr 1919
American stuntman and parachute developer Leslie Irvin (23) makes first premeditated free-fall parachute jump from a plane above US the Army Air Services McCook Field near Dayton Ohio [1]
28 Apr 1928
RCA and GE install three test television sets in homes in Schenectady New York allowing trials of inventor E.F.W. Alexandersons first home television receiver a poor and unsteady 1.5 square inch picture was received from radio transmitter
28 Apr 1955
WBIQ TV channel 10 in Birmingham Alabama (PBS) begins broadcasting
28 Apr 1963
17th Tony Awards Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf (play) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (musical) win
28 Apr 1965
Lindsey Nelson broadcasts baseball game at Houston Astrodome from a hanging gondola
28 Apr 1997
Ringo Starrs fourth All-Starr Band debuts in concert members include Peter Frampton Jack Bruce Gary Brooker Simon Kirke and Mark Rivera
28 Apr 2016
George Wolfes musical Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed based on Eubie Blake and Noble Sissles original revue and featuring Audra MacDonald and Billy Porter opens at the Music Box Theatre NYC runs for 100 performances
28 Apr 2020
US confirmed cases of COVID-19 pass 1 million while death toll of 58365 surpasses that of US soldiers killed in Vietnam War (Johns Hopkins)
28 Apr 1694
French-Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet sets out from Quebec leading the first documented journey of the Labrador coastline (reaches Zoar area) [1]
28 Apr 1937
First commercial flight across the Pacific operated by Pan Am
28 Apr 1969
British progressive rock band King Crimson with Robert Fripp Greg Lake & Ian McDonald debuts
28 Apr 2007
ICC Mens Cricket ODI World Cup Kensington Oval Bridgetown Barbados Australia 3-peat with 53 run win over Sri Lanka Player of the Match Adam Gilchrist (AUS) 149 (104) & 2 catches
28 Apr 2018
Shaquem Griffin is the first one-handed person to be drafted into the NFL selected by Seattle Seahawks
28 Apr 2023
Taiwanese political TV drama Wave Makers debuts on Netflix - goes on to ignite a Me Too movement in Taiwan [1]
28 Apr 1656
Dutch ship Vergulde Draeck (Gilt Dragon) laden with eight chests of silver wrecks on the western coast of Australia with the loss of 118 lives [1]
28 Apr 1728
82 survivors of the Dutch ship Zeewijk sail into Batavia on a hand-built boat ten months after being shipwrecked off the western coast of Australia [1]
28 Apr 1993
Zambian national football team dies in a plane crash near Libreville Gabon that kills 30 people [1]
28 Apr 2024
A worse than usual rainy season across East Africa due to El Nino kills at least 155 people in Tanzania and 60 in Kenya with hundreds of thousands displaced [1]
28 Apr 2024
At least 37 mostly nocturnal tornadoes cause widespread devastation and four deaths in Oklahoma [1]
28 Apr 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
28 Apr 1804
31 British ships sail up the Suriname River demanding the transfer of the colony from the Dutch
28 Apr 1855
First veterinary college in the US is incorporated in Boston
28 Apr 1892
First performance of Antonn Dvoks orchestral work Carnival Overture
28 Apr 1919
American stuntman and parachute developer Leslie Irvin (23) makes the first premeditated free-fall parachute jump from a plane above the US Army Air Services McCook Field near Dayton Ohio [1]
28 Apr 1925
The Exposition Internationale des Arts Dcoratifs et Industriels Modernes begins in Paris France it draws 16 million visitors over seven months and later becomes the source for the term sescribing the design movement of art deco
28 Apr 1928
RCA and GE install three test television sets in homes in Schenectady New York allowing trials of inventor E.F.W. Alexandersons first home television receiver a poor and unsteady 1.5-square-inch picture is received from a radio transmitter
28 Apr 1930
First night of organized baseball is played in Independence Kansas
28 Apr 1937
First animated cartoon electric sign is displayed in NYC
28 Apr 1937
First commercial flight across the Pacific is operated by Pan Am
28 Apr 1942
WWII continues to be titled so as a result of a Gallup Poll after US President Franklin Roosevelt suggests other names [1]
28 Apr 1942
Nightly dim-out begins along US East Coast as a deterance to German military threats
28 Apr 1956
Cincinnati Reds outfielder Frank Robinson hits his 1st of 586 HRs
28 Apr 1961
Milwaukee Braves future HOF pitcher Warren Spahn throws his second career no hitter at 41 beats SF Giants 1-0 at County Stadium
28 Apr 1965
William F. Raborn Jr. replaces John McCone as 7th head of CIA
28 Apr 1966
David Diamonds 5th Symphony premieres with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein the work was dedicated to the conductor
28 Apr 1991
Revival of Jules Styne and Stephen Sondheims musical Gypsy starring Tyne Daly re-opens at Marquis Theater NYC after a short break and venue transfer runs for an additional 105 performances
28 Apr 2014
Craig Ferguson announces he will leave The Late Late Show at the end of
28 Apr 2020
President Vladimir Putin warns Russia has not yet reached the peak of COVID-19 infections with 93000 recorded cases and 867 deaths
28 Apr 2025
Airports hospitals and public transit shut down due to a widespread power outage in Spain Portugal Andorra and parts of France [1]
28 Apr 2025
Canadian voters reelect the Liberal Party to run the government prompted by trade war with US and comments by US political leaders made about annexing their country [1]