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What Happened on April 28th This Day in History

Year	Name
2004	CBS News released evidence of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse. The photographs show rape and abuse from the American troops over Iraqi detainees.
1996	Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}1⁄2 hour
1996	Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people and wounding 23 others.
1994	Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
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.
1986	High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.
1978	The President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
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.
1975	General Cao Văn Viên, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closes in on victory.
1973	The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, recorded in Abbey Road Studios goes to number one on the US Billboard chart, beginning a record-breaking 741-week chart run.
1970	Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to take part in the Cambodian campaign.
1969	Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
1967	Vietnam War: Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses his induction into the United States Army and is subsequently stripped of his championship and license.
1965	United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops.
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO in order to campaign in the 1952 United States presidential election.
1952	The Treaty of San Francisco comes into effect, restoring Japanese sovereignty and ending its state of war with most of the Allies of World War II.
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.
1949	The Hukbalahap are accused of assassinating former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, while she is en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and ten others are also killed.
1948	Igor Stravinsky conducted the premiere of his American ballet, Orpheus at the New York City Center.
1947	Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
1945	Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are shot dead by Walter Audisio, a member of the Italian resistance movement.
1945	The Holocaust: Nazi Germany carries out its final use of gas chambers to execute 33 Upper Austrian socialist and communist leaders in Mauthausen concentration camp.
1944	World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
1941	The Ustaše massacre nearly 200 Serbs in the village of Gudovac, the first massacre of their genocidal campaign against Serbs of the Independent State of Croatia.
1930	The Independence Producers hosted the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas.
1923	Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.
1920	The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic is founded.
1910	Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in the United Kingdom.
1887	A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of William I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.
1881	Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
1869	Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First transcontinental railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
1796	The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.
1794	Sardinians, headed by Giovanni Maria Angioy, start a revolution against the Savoy domination, expelling Viceroy Balbiano and his officials from Cagliari, the capital and largest city of the island.
1792	France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
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.
1788	Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1758	The Marathas defeat the Afghans in the Battle of Attock and capture the city.
1625	A combined Spanish and Portuguese fleet of 52 ships commences the recapture of Bahia from the Dutch during the Dutch–Portuguese War.
1611	Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.
1503	The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as one of the first European battles in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.
1294	Temür, grandson of Kublai, is elected Khagan of the Mongols with the reigning title Oljeitu.
1253	Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō for the very first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
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.
357	Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius.
224	The Battle of Hormozdgan is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V effectively ending the Parthian Empire.

Famous People Born on April 28

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Year	Name
1960	Walter Zenga, Italian footballer and manager
1923	Carolyn Cassady, American author (d. 2013)
1987	Bradley Johnson, English footballer
1928	Yves Klein, French painter (d. 1962)
1889	António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese economist and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1970)
1573	Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême, son of Charles IX (d. 1650)
1974	Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress and producer
1965	Jennifer Rardin, American author (d. 2010)
1985	Deividas Stagniūnas, Lithuanian ice dancer
1941	Iryna Zhylenko, Ukrainian poet and author (d. 2013)

Famous People Deaths On April 28

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Date	Name
2018	James Hylton, American race car driver (b. 1934)
1994	Berton Roueché, American journalist and author (b. 1910)
1197	Rhys ap Gruffydd, prince of Deheubarth (b. 1132)
1781	Cornelius Harnett, American merchant, farmer, and politician (b. 1723)
1946	Louis Bachelier, French mathematician and academic (b. 1870)
1813	Mikhail Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (b. 1745)
2014	Barbara Fiske Calhoun, American cartoonist and painter (b. 1919)
1710	Thomas Betterton, English actor and manager (b. 1630)
1109	Abbot Hugh of Cluny (b. 1024)
2012	Fred Allen, New Zealand rugby player and coach (b. 1920)