April 28

Thursday 28, 2005:

The Patent Law Treaty goes into effect.

Monday 28, 2003:

Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store launches, selling 1 million songs in its first week.

Saturday 28, 2001:

Millionnaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist.

Monday 28, 1997:

The 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention goes into effect. Russia, Iraq and North Korea were notable nations who had not ratified the treaty.

Sunday 28, 1996:

Port Arthur massacre: Martin Bryant kills 35 people and wounds another 18 in Tasmania, Australia.

Thursday 28, 1994:

Former Central Intelligence Agency official Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.

Saturday 28, 1990:

After 6,237 performances, the Broadway musical A Chorus Line closes.

Thursday 28, 1988:

Near Maui, Hawaii, a flight attendant is sucked out of Aloha Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when an upper part of the plane's cabin area rips off in mid-flight. Metal fatigue is later found to be the cause of the failure.

Tuesday 28, 1987:

U.S. engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by US-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.

Friday 28, 1978:

President of Afghanistan Mohammed Daoud Khan is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.

Thursday 28, 1977:

1977 - The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.

Tuesday 28, 1970:

Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.

Monday 28, 1969:

Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.

Friday 28, 1967:

1967 - Expo 67 opens in Montréal, Québec, Canada

Wednesday 28, 1965:

United States troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. citizens.

Monday 28, 1952:

Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends.

Monday 28, 1947:

Thor Heyerdahl and five crewmates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.

Saturday 28, 1945:

Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by members of the Italian resistance movement.

Thursday 28, 1932:

A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.

Monday 28, 1930:

The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.

Wednesday 28, 1920:

Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.

Monday 28, 1862:

American Civil War: Admiral David Farragut captures New Orleans, Louisiana.

Thursday 28, 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.

Tuesday 28, 1789:

Mutiny on the HMS Bounty. Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew sets sail for Pitcairn Island.

Monday 28, 1788:

Maryland becomes the 7th state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.

Monday 28, 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.

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