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Today in History – April 28 in History
What happened on this day in history – April 28 in History around the world
| 357 | Constantius II visits Rome for the first time. | |
| 1282 | Villagers in Palermo lead a revolt against French rule in Sicily. | |
| 1635 | Virginia Governor John Harvey is accused of treason and removed from office. | |
| 1760 | French forces besieging Quebec defeat the British in the second battle on the Plains of Abraham. | |
| 1788 | Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the constitution. | |
| 1789 | The crew of the HMS Bounty mutinies against Captain William Bligh. | |
| 1818 | President James Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain. | |
| 1856 | Yokut Indians repel an attack on their land by 100 would-be Indian fighters in California. | |
| 1902 | Revolution breaks out in the Dominican Republic. | |
| 1910 | The first night air flight is performed by Claude Grahame-White in England. | |
| 1916 | British declare martial law throughout Ireland. | |
| 1919 | Les Irvin makes the first jump with an Army Air Corps parachute. | |
| 1920 | Azerbaijan joins the Soviet Union. | |
| 1930 | The first organized night baseball game is played in Independence, Kansas. | |
| 1932 | A yellow fever vaccine for humans is announced. | |
| 1945 | Benito Mussolini is killed by Italian partisans. | |
| 1946 | The Allies indict Tojo on 55 counts of war crimes | |
| 1947 | Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl and five others set out in a balsa wood craft known as Kon Tiki to prove that Peruvian Indians could have settled in Polynesia. | |
| 1953 | French troops evacuate northern Laos. | |
| 1965 | The U.S. Army and Marines invade the Dominican Republic. | |
| 1967 | Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the U.S. Army and is stripped of boxing title. | |
| 1969 | Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France. | |
| Born on April 28 | ||
| 1442 | Edward IV, king of England (1461-1470, 1471-1483), first king of the House of York. | |
| 1758 | James Monroe, fifth President of the United States (1817-1825). | |
| 1878 | Lionel Barrymore, American stage, screen and radio actor. | |
| 1892 | John Jacob Niles, American folk singer and folklorist. | |
| 1898 | William Soutar, Scottish poet. | |
| 1902 | Johan Borgen, Norwegian novelist. | |
| 1912 | Odette Hallowes, British secret agent. | |
| 1926 | Harper Lee, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (To Kill a Mockingbird). | |
| 1930 | James Baker III, Cabinet secretary for Presidents Reagan and Bush. | |
| 1936 | Kenneth White, poet and essayist. | |
| 1937 | Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq. | |
| 1937 | Jean Redpath, Scottish folk singer. | |
