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, 484,944 hours 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

• 1611 –
  Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.
• 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.
• 1952 –
  Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends as the Treaty of San Francisco, ratified September 8, 1951, comes into force.
• 1975 –
  General Cao Van Vien, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.
• 1978 –
  President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
• 1986 –
  The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea.
• 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.
• 1996 –
  Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
• 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?

• 1868 –
  Lucy Booth, the fifth daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1953)
• 1889 –
  António de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal (d. 1970)
• 1908 –
  Oskar Schindler, Austro-Hungarian (Sudeten German) industrialist (d. 1974)
• 1928 –
  Eugene M. Shoemaker, American planetary scientist (d. 1997)
• 1937 –
  Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq 1979-2003; Prime Minister of Iraq 1979-1991; 1994-2003 (d. 2006)
• 1967 –
  Kari Wührer, American actress
• 1981 –
  Pietro Travagli, Italian rugby player
• 1987 –
  Ryan Conroy, Scottish footballer
• 1988 –
  Jonathan Biabiany, French footballer
• 1988 –
  Juan Manuel Mata, Spanish footballer

Who died on April 28?

• 1533 –
  Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (b. 1461)
• 1710 –
  Thomas Betterton, English actor
• 1841 –
  Peter Chanel, French saint (b. 1803)
• 1858 –
  Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (b. 1801)
• 1883 –
  John “Jack” Russell, English parson, hunter and dog breeder (b. 1795)
• 1957 –
  Heinz “Pritzl” Bär, German fighter pilot (b. 1913)
• 1973 –
  Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (b. 1893)
• 1999 –
  Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1921)
• 1999 –
  Sir Alf Ramsey, English football manager (b. 1920)
• 2005 –
  Chris Candido, American wrestler (b. 1972)