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
- 1503 –The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as the first battle in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.
- 1932 –A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.
- 1945 –Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement.
- 1947 –Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
- 1948 –Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus, in New York City at New York City Center.
- 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.
- 1988 –Near 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.
- 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.
- 2001 –Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world’s first space tourist.
Who were born on April 28?
- 1868 –Lucy Booth, the fifth daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1953)
- 1870 –August Schmierer, German rugby player
- 1889 –António de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal (d. 1970)
- 1910 –Sam Merwin, Jr., American mystery fiction writer (d. 1996)
- 1941 –Iryna Zhylenko, Ukrainian poet
- 1944 –Alice Waters, American chef
- 1953 –Kim Gordon, American musician (Sonic Youth)
- 1956 –Jimmy Barnes, Scottish-born singer
- 1958 –Nancy Lee Grahn, American actress
- 1974 –Richel Hersisia, Dutch boxer
Who died on April 28?
- 1489 –Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, English politician
- 1695 –Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet (b. 1621)
- 1716 –Louis de Montfort, French catholic priest (b. 1673)
- 1813 –Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (b. 1745)
- 1946 –Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (b. 1870)
- 1957 –Heinz “Pritzl” Bär, German fighter pilot (b. 1913)
- 1978 –Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan, President of Afghanistan (b. 1909)
- 1993 –Jim Valvano, American basketball coach (b. 1946)
- 2000 –Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish doctor, researcher and politician (b. 1925)
- 2005 –Percy Heath, American jazz bassist (Modern Jazz Quartet) (b. 1923)
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