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 118^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 247 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 15, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,096,640 minutes 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 ‘hectadecaoctagon’ 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 295 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 4,511 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

April 28 Historical Events

• 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.
• 1792 –
  France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium), beginning the French Revolutionary War.
• 1887 –
  A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war.
• 1920 –
  Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.
• 1948 –
  Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus, in New York City at New York City Center.
• 1952 –
  Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
• 1952 –
  The 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.
• 1970 –
  Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
• 2001 –
  Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world’s first space tourist.
• 2008 –
  A train collision in Shandong, China, kills 72 people and injures 416 more.

Who were born on April 28?

• 1911 –
  Lee Falk, American comic strip writer (d. 1999)
• 1924 –
  Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia
• 1928 –
  Yves Klein, French painter (d. 1962)
• 1949 –
  Bruno Kirby, American actor (d. 2006)
• 1949 –
  Indian Larry, American stuntman (d. 2004)
• 1949 –
  Paul Guilfoyle, American actor
• 1950 –
  Jay Leno, American comedian and television host
• 1956 –
  Jimmy Barnes, Scottish-born singer
• 1980 –
  Josh Howard, American basketball player
• 1988 –
  Jonathan Biabiany, French footballer

Who died on April 28?

• 1192 –
  King Conrad of Montferrat
• 1858 –
  Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (b. 1801)
• 1957 –
  Heinz “Pritzl” Bär, German fighter pilot (b. 1913)
• 1973 –
  Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (b. 1893)
• 1994 –
  Berton Roueché, American medical writer (b. 1910)
• 1998 –
  Jerome Bixby, American writer (b. 1923)
• 1999 –
  Rory Calhoun, American actor (b. 1922)
• 2002 –
  Lou Thesz, American wrestler (b. 1916)
• 2007 –
  Dabbs Greer, American actor (b. 1917)
• 2009 –
  Ekaterina Maximova, Russian ballerina (b. 1939)