Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 28
This is a list of selected April 28 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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University of Santo Tomas
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Guillaume Schnaebelé -
Paulhan's landing
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Heroes' Day in Barbados | stub |
| 1192 – Third Crusade: Conrad of Montferrat, the elected King of Jerusalem, was fatally stabbed by members of the Hashshashin. | needs more footnotes |
| 1944 – World War II: During Exercise Tiger, a large-scale rehearsal for the invasion of Normandy, German S-boats attacked an Allied convoy, killing 946 American servicemen. | refimprove section |
| 1952 – The Treaty of San Francisco entered into force, ending the Occupation of Japan by the former Allied Powers of World War II. | multiple issues |
| 1969 – Charles de Gaulle, the first President of the French Fifth Republic, resigned following his defeat on a nationwide referendum. | appears on January 20 |
| 1978 – Mohammed Daoud Khan, the first president of Afghanistan, was overthrown and assassinated in a coup d'état by pro-communist supporters. | Khan: refimprove section; Revolution: refimprove section |
| 1996 – A spree shooter in the Port Arthur massacre killed 35 people, and seriously injured 37 in Tasmania, leading to strict gun laws in Australia. | lead too short |
| Terry Pratchett |b|1948 | refimprove sections |
| ; Sa die de sa Sardigna in Sardinia, Italy | Undercited |
| * 2001 – American entrepreneur Dennis Tito boarded the Russian spacecraft Soyuz TM-32 to the International Space Station, becoming the world's first fee-paying space tourist. | A number of tags in the spaceflight section |
| * 1975 – Chief of the South Vietnamese army Cao Văn Viên fled the country as the North Vietnamese closed in on Saigon. | Article states that his actions are unclear and gives two versions of events |
| * 1949 – Former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, her daughter, and ten others were assassinated by the military arm of the Philippine Communist Party. | Too much uncited |
Eligible
- 224 – The ancient Iranian Parthian Empire fell to the Sasanids after its forces were defeated at the Battle of Hormozdgan.
- 1611 – The University of Santo Tomas in Manila, one of the oldest existing universities in Asia and one of the world's largest Catholic universities by enrollment, was founded.
- 1783 – Second Anglo-Mysore War: British troops surrendered the fortress of Bednore in southwestern India to French and Mysorean forces; many of the prisoners were later murdered.
- 1887 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé (pictured) was released on the order of William I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.
- 1910 – Frenchman Louis Paulhan landed his biplane at Manchester (pictured), having departed from London the previous day, to win the world's first long-distance air race
- 1941 – World War II: Presaging a campaign of genocide against the Serbs of Croatia, around 190 people were massacred by members of the Ustaše movement in Gudovac.
- 1952 – Japan and the Republic of China signed the Treaty of Taipei, officially ending the Second Sino-Japanese War seven years after fighting ended due to World War II.
- 1971 – Scottish trade unionist Jimmy Reid condemned the capitalist "rat race" in his inaugural address as Rector of the University of Glasgow.
- 1973 – The album The Dark Side of the Moon by the British progressive rock band Pink Floyd entered the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart, on which it spent a record 942 weeks.
- 1988 – Aloha Airlines Flight 243 experienced explosive decompression while airborne between Hilo and Honolulu, Hawaii, with one fatality as a flight attendant was ejected from the aircraft.
- 1999 – A 14-year-old former student in Taber, Alberta, opened fire at his high school, killing one student and wounding another in Canada's first fatal school shooting in more than two decades.
- 2008 – The 1,388-foot-tall (423.2 m) Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago, with the world's highest residence above ground level at the time, held its grand opening.
- Born/died this day:
Rhys ap Gruffydd |d|1197| Shajar al-Durr |d|1257| James Monroe |b|1758| Tobias Asser |b|1838| Hertha Ayrton |b|1854| Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon |d|1881| Tristan Tzara |b|1896| Josiah Willard Gibbs |d|1903| Oskar Schindler |b|1908| Hermann Fegelein |d|1945| Elena Kagan |b|1960|Penélope Cruz |b|1974| Bradley Wiggins |b|1980| David Freese |b|1983| Xiaxue|d|1984| Alf Ramsey |d|1999
Notes
- 1927 FA Cup Final appears on April 23, so 1923 one should not appear in the same year
April 28: Workers' Memorial Day
- 1253 – The Japanese monk Nichiren declared the mantra Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō, now a central part of Nichiren Buddhism.
- 1789 – Fletcher Christian, the acting lieutenant on board the Royal Navy ship Bounty, led a mutiny against the commander William Bligh in the South Pacific.
- 1923 – The FA Cup final (crowd and police pictured) between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United was held on the opening day of the Empire Stadium in London.
- 1945 – World War II: Benito Mussolini, the deposed fascist dictator of Italy, was executed by partisans in Giulino.
- 1983 – The West German news magazine Stern published excerpts from the purported diaries of Adolf Hitler, later revealed to be forgeries.
- Bajirao I (d. 1740)
- Jane Cobden (b. 1851)
- Regina Martínez Pérez (d. 2012)