About April 28
April 28, 2025 is the 118th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 247 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 295 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 28
- 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.
- 1253 –Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the very first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
- 1503 –The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as the first battle in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.
- 1611 –Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.
- 1788 –Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
- 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.
- 1792 –France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium), beginning the French Revolutionary War.
- 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.
- 1930 –The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.
- 1932 –A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.
- 1944 –World War II: Nine German S-boots attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
- 1945 –Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement.
- 1947 –Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
- 1948 –Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus, in New York City at New York City Center.
- 1952 –Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
- 1969 –Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
- 1986 –The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea.
- 1987 –American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
- 1994 –Former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
- 2008 –A train collision in Shandong, China, kills 72 people and injures 416 more.
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