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

• 1192 –
  Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne is confirmed by election. The killing is carried out by Hashshashin.
• 1503 –
  The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as the first battle in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.
• 1611 –
  Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1947 –
  Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
• 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.
• 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.

Who were born on April 28?

• 1868 –
  Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (d. 1908)
• 1878 –
  Lionel Barrymore, American actor (d. 1954)
• 1908 –
  Oskar Schindler, Austro-Hungarian (Sudeten German) industrialist (d. 1974)
• 1941 –
  Ann-Margret, Swedish-born actress
• 1941 –
  Nico Mastorakis, Greek filmmaker, director and radio producer
• 1961 –
  Anna Oxa, Italian singer
• 1974 –
  Richel Hersisia, Dutch boxer
• 1979 –
  Bahram Radan, Iranian actor
• 1986 –
  George Nozuka, Canadian singer/songwriter
• 1988 –
  Juan Manuel Mata, Spanish footballer

Who died on April 28?

• 1489 –
  Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, English politician
• 1841 –
  Peter Chanel, French saint (b. 1803)
• 1853 –
  Ludwig Tieck, German writer (b. 1773)
• 1858 –
  Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (b. 1801)
• 1865 –
  Samuel Cunard, Canadian-born British shipping magnate (b. 1787)
• 1936 –
  King Fuad I of Egypt (b. 1868)
• 1975 –
  Tom Donahue, American freeform radio DJ (b. 1928)
• 1992 –
  Iceberg Slim, American writer (b. 1918)
• 1993 –
  Jim Valvano, American basketball coach (b. 1946)
• 1998 –
  Ramakant Desai, Indian cricketer (b. 1939)