What are the important events that happened on April 28? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 28: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 28 is the 119th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 247 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 15, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,714,262,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectadecaenneagon’ day.
Taurus is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 276 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,146 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 28 Historical Events
- 1788 –Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1869 –Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
- 1949 –Former First Lady of the Philippines 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 –Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
- 1970 –Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
- 1977 –The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.
- 1994 –Former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
- 1999 –In Alberta, Canada, 14-year-old Todd Cameron Smith fires upon three students, killing one and wounding another in the W. R. Myers High School shooting.
Who were born on April 28?
- 1937 –Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq 1979-2003; Prime Minister of Iraq 1979-1991; 1994-2003 (d. 2006)
- 1941 –Lucien Aimar, French cyclist
- 1950 –Willie Colón, Puerto Rican salsa musician
- 1963 –Lloyd Eisler, Canadian figure skater
- 1964 –Noriyuki Iwadare, Japanese composer
- 1966 –Too Short, American rapper
- 1968 –Andy Flower, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1982 –Harry Shum, Jr., American dancer and actor
- 1986 –George Nozuka, Canadian singer/songwriter
- 1986 –Jennifer Palm Lundberg, Swedish beauty pageant contestant
Who died on April 28?
- 1726 –Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (b. 1653)
- 1781 –Cornelius Harnett, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723)
- 1858 –Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (b. 1801)
- 1883 –John “Jack” Russell, English parson, hunter and dog breeder (b. 1795)
- 1944 –Mohammed Alim Khan, the last Emir of the Emirate of Bukhara (b. 1880)
- 1945 –Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist dictator (b. 1883)
- 1999 –Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1921)
- 2002 –Lou Thesz, American wrestler (b. 1916)
- 2005 –Percy Heath, American jazz bassist (Modern Jazz Quartet) (b. 1923)
- 2007 –Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (b. 1912)
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