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
- 357 –Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius.
- 1503 –The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as the first battle in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.
- 1788 –Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
- 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.
- 1869 –Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
- 1930 –The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.
- 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.
- 1948 –Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus, in New York City at New York City Center.
- 1965 –United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to “forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship” and to evacuate U.S. Army troops.
- 1970 –Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
- 1977 –The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
- 1978 –President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
- 1987 –American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
- 1988 –Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle “C.B.” Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane’s fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
- 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.
- 1996 –In Tasmania, Australia, Martin Bryant goes on a shooting spree, killing 35 people and seriously injuring 21 more.
- 1996 –Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
- 2001 –Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world’s first space tourist.
- 2008 –A train collision in Shandong, China, kills 72 people and injures 416 more.
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