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- 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.
- 1253 Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
- 1611 Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the oldest existing university in Asia and the largest Catholic university in the world (d. 1611)
- 1635 Virginia Gov John Harvey accused of treason & removed from office
- 1686 The first volume of Isaac Newton's "Principia" published
- 1788 Maryland becomes the 7th state to ratify the constitution
- 1788 Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
- 1788 Maryland was one of the first of the United States of America, entering the Union as number seven on this day
- 1789 Mutiny on HMS Bounty
- 1789 Mutiny on the HMS Bounty. Captain 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 Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium), beginning the French Revolutionary War.
- 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.
- 1818 Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on Great Lakes & Lake Champlain
- 1862 American Civil War: Admiral David Farragut captures New Orleans, Louisiana.
- 1902 Using the ISO 8601 standard Year Zero definition for the Gregorian calendar preceded by the Julian calendar, the one billionth minute since the start of January 1, Year Zero occurred at 10:40 AM on this date.
- 1910 The first night air flight (Claude Grahame-White, England)
- 1914 181 die in coal mine collapse at Eccles WV
- 1914 W H Carrier patents air conditioner
- 1919 The first jump with Army Air Corp (rip-cord type) parachute (Les Irvin)
- 1920 Azerbaijan SSR joins the USSR (1st time)
- 1920 Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.
- 1922 WOI (Ames, Iowa) country's first licensed educational radio station
- 1923 Wembley Stadium opens-Bolton Wanderers vs West Ham United (FA Cup)
- 1924 119 die in Benwood West Virginia coal mine disaster
- 1924 J Hartmann discovers asteroid #1029 La Plata
- 1930 The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.
- 1932 A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.
- 1932 Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced
- 1937 The first commercial flight across the Pacific, Pan Am
- 1938 King Zog of Albania marries Countess Geraldine of Hungary
- 1940 Glenn Miller records "Pennsylvania 6-5000"
- 1941 Sgt. John Daniel Hinton, 20th NZ Battalion, won the Victoria Cross at Kalamai, Greece
- 1942 Nightly "dim-out" begins along the East Coast
- 1944 U.S. LSTs attacked during Operation Tiger
- 1945 Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement.
- 1945 Bernito Mussolini Fascist leader & mistress captured, tried, & shot
- 1947 Thor Heyerdahl & "Kon-Tiki" sail from Peru to Polynesia
- 1947 Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
- 1950 Bhumibol Adulyadej, got married with his queen, Queen Sirikit, after their quiet engagement in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 19, 1949.
- 1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NATO.
- 1952 Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends.
- 1952 Ratification by Australia of peace treaty with Japan and official end of British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF), Japan
- 1952 WW II Pacific peace treaty takes effect
- 1958 Vanguard TV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
- 1958 Vice Pres Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America
- 1960 Number one hit on UK music charts - Anthony Newley - Do You Mind
- 1961 Lt Col Gueorgui Mossolov takes E-66A to 34,714 m altitude
- 1962 Naval forces capture Forts Jackson and St. Philip, LA
- 1965 Barbra Striesand stars on "My Name is Barbra" special on CBS
- 1965 Dominican Republic intervention began
- 1965 US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966
- 1965 United States troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. citizens.
- 1966 Number one hit on UK music charts - Dusty Springfield - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
- 1967 Expo 67 opens in Montreal
- 1967 Expo 67 opens to the public in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
- 1967 Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title
- 1968 11 year-old Mary Bell strangles 4 year-old
- 1969 Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
- 1970 Ed Begley actor (Mr Koppel-Leave it to Larry), dies at 69
- 1970 Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
- 1971 Samuel Lee Gravely Jr becomes first black admiral in US Navy
- 1972 The courts awarded the Kentucky Derby prize money to 2nd place winner because the winner was given drugs before the race
- 1974 Last Americans evacuated from Saigon
- 1975 John Lennon appears on "Tonight" & Ringo on "Smother Brothers"
- 1977 Christopher Boyce convicted for selling secrets
- 1977 The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.
- 1977 The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
- 1978 President of Afghanistan Mohammed Daoud Khan is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
- 1980 Alfred Hitchcock Diedfrom Liver Failure and Heart Problems
- 1980 Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State, resigns
- 1980 Tommy Caldwell rocker (Marshall Tucker Band), dies
- 1981 Galician current Statute of Autonomy.
- 1981 Mickey "Toy Bulldog" Walker welterweight champ (1922-26) dies at 79
- 1982 L G Taff discovers asteroid #3343 Nedzel
- 1986 Chernobyl, USSR site of world's worst nuclear power plant disaster
- 1986 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 USS Coral Sea, on station across the "Line of Death" in the Gulf of Sidra off the coast of Libya. The transit began at 0300 and lasted 12 hours.
- 1987 Ben Linder development worker, murdered by Contras in Nicaragua
- 1987 U.S. engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
- 1988 Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess
- 1988 NJ Devils set all time playoff mark for penalty minutes
- 1988 Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is sucked out of Aloha Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
- 1990 "Chorus Line" closes on Broadway after 6,137 performances (15 yrs)
- 1991 Ken Curtis actor (Gunsmoke), dies at 74
- 1991 Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) launched
- 1992 Visitor posting - Dr. Alexander James Clay Weakley born - USA
- 1993 SECDEF memo orders Armed Forces to train and assign women on combat aircraft and most combat ships, but not to ground combat positions.
- 1994 Former Central Intelligence Agency official Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
- 1994 Visitor posting - Lindsey Leavy, the most beautiful girl ever and the love of my life, was born
- 1996 In Tasmania, Australia, Martin Bryant goes on a shooting spree, killing 35 people and seriously injuring 37 more.
- 1996 Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives 4 hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
- 1997 The 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention goes into effect, with Russia, Iraq and North Korea notable nations who had not ratified the treaty.
- 1999 Visitor posting - April 28, 1999 Lawrene: A star was born to Nichole Herdtner and Eric Hodge.
- 2000 Visitor posting - April 28, 2000 Ryan A. Vigeant is born. Many call him a miracle. An inspiration and loved always.
- 2001 Visitor posting - [email protected] - United Kingdom
- 2001 Visitor posting - Gabriel Gomes born - Brazil
- 2001 Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist.
- 2005 Taraki Sivaram, a popular Tamil journalist of Sri Lanka kidnapped in Colombo; his body was found the next day near the parliament.
- 2005 The Patent Law Treaty goes into effect.
- 2007 Visitor posting - Apr 28 2007 Phyo Kyaw And Khin Yoon Yoon Fall In Love :)
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