April 28
1788 - Maryland became the 7th state.
1789 - Fletcher Christian led the mutiny aboard the British ship Bounty against Captain William Bligh.
1945 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were executed as they attempted to flee the country.
1947 - Thor Heyerdahl and five others began their trek across the Pacific Ocean on the balsa wood raft, Kon-Tiki.
1952 - War with Japan officially ended as a treaty signed in San Francisco the year before took effect.
1952 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe; he was succeeded by Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway.
1965 - President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered U.S. Marines to the Dominican Republic to protect American citizens and interests in the face of a civil war.
1980 - President Jimmy Carter accepted the resignation of Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, who had opposed the failed rescue mission aimed at freeing American hostages in Iran.
1986 - The Soviet Union informed the world of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl.
1990 - The musical "A Chorus Line" closed after 6,137 performances on Broadway.
1992 - The Department of Agriculture unveiled its first Food Pyramid.
1994 - Former CIA agent Aldrich Ames, who had passed U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and then Russia, pleaded guilty to espionage and tax evasion, and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
2001 - A Russian rocket lifted off from Central Asia bearing the first space tourist, California businessman Dennis Tito, and two cosmonauts on a journey to the international space station.
2004 - The Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal first came to light when graphic photos of U.S. soldiers physically abusing and humiliating Iraqi prisoners were shown on CBS's "60 Minutes II."
2011 - Convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy, pleaded guilty to kidnapping and raping a California girl, Jaycee Dugard, who was abducted in 1991 at the age of 11 and rescued 18 years later. (Phillip Garrido was sentenced to 431 years to life in prison; Nancy Garrido was sentenced to 36 years to life in prison.)
2012 - Syria derided United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as biased and called his comments “outrageous” after he blamed the regime for widespread cease-fire violations.
2017 - President Donald Trump reaffirmed his support for gun rights, telling attendees of a National Rifle Association convention in Atlanta that “the eight-year assault on your Second Amendment freedoms has come to a crashing end.”
2018 - Alfie Evans, the 23-month-old terminally-ill British toddler who was at the center of a legal battle over his treatment, died at a British hospital; doctors had said further treatment for his degenerative brain condition was futile and that he should be allowed to die, but his parents fought for months to take him to the Vatican’s children’s hospital so he could be kept on life support.
2021 - In his first address to Congress, President Joe Biden called for an expansion of federal programs to drive the economy past the pandemic and broadly extend the social safety net on a scale not seen in decades.
2021 - The Justice Department brought federal hate crimes charges in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who was pursued and then killed by white men who spotted him running in their Georgia neighborhood. (Three white men were found guilty of federal hate crimes after being convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison in Arbery's shooting death.)
2021 - Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, who orbited the moon alone while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their first steps on the lunar surface, died of cancer in Florida at age 90.
Birthdays
28 - Melanie Martinez (singer)
31 - Catherine Wayne (comedian)
32 - Aleisha Allen (actress)
36 - Samantha Ruth Prabhu (actress)
37 - Jenna Ushkowitz (actress)
41 - Harry Shum Jr. (actor)
42 - Jessica Alba (actress)
45 - Drew Scott (TV host)
45 - Jonathan Scott (TV host)
45 - Nate Richert (actor)
49 - Penelope Cruz (actress)
50 - Elisabeth Rohm (actress)
50 - Jorge Garcia (actor)
52 - Chris Young (actor)
52 - Bridget Moynahan (actress)
63 - Elena Kagan (Supreme Court Justice)
67 - Nancy Lee Grahn (actress)
71 - Mary McDonnell (actress)
73 - Jay Leno (TV host)
74 - Paul Guilfoyle (actor)
82 - Ann Margret (actress)
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Today in Sports History - April 28
1923 - London's Wembley Stadium opens.
1930 - The first organized night baseball game was played in Independence, Kansas.
1966 - The Boston Celtics defeat the Los Angeles Lakers in seven games to win the NBA championship.
1967 - Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the U.S. Army and was thereby stripped of his championship.
1971 - Hank Aaron hit his 600th career home run.
1985 - Fernando Valenzuela sets a MLB record by pitching 41 consecutive scoreless innings to start the season.
1985 - Billy Martin was named manager of the New York Yankees for the fourth time.
1987 - The NBA announced expansion franchises for Charlotte (Hornets) and Miami (Heat) for the 1988-89 season and Minneapolis (Timberwolves) and Orlando (Magic) for the 1989-90 season.
1987 - The Tampa Bay Buccaneers select Miami (FL) quarterback Vinny Testaverde with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1988 - The Baltimore Orioles lost their 21st consecutive game to establish a new MLB record for worst start to a season (0-21).
1993 - Dale Hunter (Washington Capitals) executed a blindside check on Pierre Turgeon (New York Islanders). On May 4 Hunter was given a 21 game suspension.
2003 - Andre Agassi becomes the oldest men's tennis player to ever achieve a world's #1 ranking at 33 years, 13 days old.
2007 - The Oakland Raiders select LSU quarterback JaMarcus Russell with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
2011 - The Carolina Panthers select Auburn quarterback Cam Newton with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
2016 - The Los Angeles Rams select California quarterback Jared Goff with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
2022 - The Jacksonville Jaguars selected Georgia defensive end Travon Walker with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
2022 - Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer was suspended for two full seasons without pay by Major League Baseball for violating the league's domestic violence and sexual assault policy, which he denied doing.
1788 - Maryland became the 7th state.
1789 - Fletcher Christian led the mutiny aboard the British ship Bounty against Captain William Bligh.
1945 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were executed as they attempted to flee the country.
1947 - Thor Heyerdahl and five others began their trek across the Pacific Ocean on the balsa wood raft, Kon-Tiki.
1952 - War with Japan officially ended as a treaty signed in San Francisco the year before took effect.
1952 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe; he was succeeded by Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway.
1965 - President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered U.S. Marines to the Dominican Republic to protect American citizens and interests in the face of a civil war.
1980 - President Jimmy Carter accepted the resignation of Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, who had opposed the failed rescue mission aimed at freeing American hostages in Iran.
1986 - The Soviet Union informed the world of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl.
1990 - The musical "A Chorus Line" closed after 6,137 performances on Broadway.
1992 - The Department of Agriculture unveiled its first Food Pyramid.
1994 - Former CIA agent Aldrich Ames, who had passed U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and then Russia, pleaded guilty to espionage and tax evasion, and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
2001 - A Russian rocket lifted off from Central Asia bearing the first space tourist, California businessman Dennis Tito, and two cosmonauts on a journey to the international space station.
2004 - The Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal first came to light when graphic photos of U.S. soldiers physically abusing and humiliating Iraqi prisoners were shown on CBS's "60 Minutes II."
2011 - Convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy, pleaded guilty to kidnapping and raping a California girl, Jaycee Dugard, who was abducted in 1991 at the age of 11 and rescued 18 years later. (Phillip Garrido was sentenced to 431 years to life in prison; Nancy Garrido was sentenced to 36 years to life in prison.)
2012 - Syria derided United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as biased and called his comments “outrageous” after he blamed the regime for widespread cease-fire violations.
2017 - President Donald Trump reaffirmed his support for gun rights, telling attendees of a National Rifle Association convention in Atlanta that “the eight-year assault on your Second Amendment freedoms has come to a crashing end.”
2018 - Alfie Evans, the 23-month-old terminally-ill British toddler who was at the center of a legal battle over his treatment, died at a British hospital; doctors had said further treatment for his degenerative brain condition was futile and that he should be allowed to die, but his parents fought for months to take him to the Vatican’s children’s hospital so he could be kept on life support.
2021 - In his first address to Congress, President Joe Biden called for an expansion of federal programs to drive the economy past the pandemic and broadly extend the social safety net on a scale not seen in decades.
2021 - The Justice Department brought federal hate crimes charges in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who was pursued and then killed by white men who spotted him running in their Georgia neighborhood. (Three white men were found guilty of federal hate crimes after being convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison in Arbery's shooting death.)
2021 - Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, who orbited the moon alone while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their first steps on the lunar surface, died of cancer in Florida at age 90.
Birthdays
28 - Melanie Martinez (singer)
31 - Catherine Wayne (comedian)
32 - Aleisha Allen (actress)
36 - Samantha Ruth Prabhu (actress)
37 - Jenna Ushkowitz (actress)
41 - Harry Shum Jr. (actor)
42 - Jessica Alba (actress)
45 - Drew Scott (TV host)
45 - Jonathan Scott (TV host)
45 - Nate Richert (actor)
49 - Penelope Cruz (actress)
50 - Elisabeth Rohm (actress)
50 - Jorge Garcia (actor)
52 - Chris Young (actor)
52 - Bridget Moynahan (actress)
63 - Elena Kagan (Supreme Court Justice)
67 - Nancy Lee Grahn (actress)
71 - Mary McDonnell (actress)
73 - Jay Leno (TV host)
74 - Paul Guilfoyle (actor)
82 - Ann Margret (actress)
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Today in Sports History - April 28
1923 - London's Wembley Stadium opens.
1930 - The first organized night baseball game was played in Independence, Kansas.
1966 - The Boston Celtics defeat the Los Angeles Lakers in seven games to win the NBA championship.
1967 - Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the U.S. Army and was thereby stripped of his championship.
1971 - Hank Aaron hit his 600th career home run.
1985 - Fernando Valenzuela sets a MLB record by pitching 41 consecutive scoreless innings to start the season.
1985 - Billy Martin was named manager of the New York Yankees for the fourth time.
1987 - The NBA announced expansion franchises for Charlotte (Hornets) and Miami (Heat) for the 1988-89 season and Minneapolis (Timberwolves) and Orlando (Magic) for the 1989-90 season.
1987 - The Tampa Bay Buccaneers select Miami (FL) quarterback Vinny Testaverde with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1988 - The Baltimore Orioles lost their 21st consecutive game to establish a new MLB record for worst start to a season (0-21).
1993 - Dale Hunter (Washington Capitals) executed a blindside check on Pierre Turgeon (New York Islanders). On May 4 Hunter was given a 21 game suspension.
2003 - Andre Agassi becomes the oldest men's tennis player to ever achieve a world's #1 ranking at 33 years, 13 days old.
2007 - The Oakland Raiders select LSU quarterback JaMarcus Russell with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
2011 - The Carolina Panthers select Auburn quarterback Cam Newton with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
2016 - The Los Angeles Rams select California quarterback Jared Goff with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
2022 - The Jacksonville Jaguars selected Georgia defensive end Travon Walker with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
2022 - Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer was suspended for two full seasons without pay by Major League Baseball for violating the league's domestic violence and sexual assault policy, which he denied doing.
