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What happend on 28. April in History
In our data base we found 281 events happened on 28. April:
• 32: Marcus Salvius Otho, Roman emperor (d. 69 AD) [category: Births]
• 357: Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius. [category: Events]
• 1192: Conrad of Montferrat (b. 1140s) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
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• 1442: Edward IV of England (d. 1483) [category: Births]
• 1489: Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, English politician (b. 1440s) [category: Deaths]
• 1503: The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as the first battle in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder. [category: Events]
• 1533: Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (b. 1461) [category: Deaths]
• 1545: Yi Sun-sin, Korean admiral (d. 1598) [category: Births]
• 1611: Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world. [category: Events]
• 1630: Charles Cotton, English poet (d. 1687) [category: Births]
• 1643: Francisco de Lucena, Portuguese Secretary of State (b. 1578?) [category: Deaths]
• 1652: Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse-Darmstadt, German composer (d. 1712) [category: Births]
• 1686: Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1721) [category: Births]
• 1695: Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet (b. 1621) [category: Deaths]
• 1710: Thomas Betterton, English actor (b. 1630s) [category: Deaths]
• 1715: Franz Sparry, Austrian composer (d. 1767) [category: Births]
• 1716: Louis de Montfort, French priest (b. 1673) [category: Deaths]
• 1726: Thomas Pitt, English merchant (b. 1653) [category: Deaths]
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• 1741: Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish general and statesman (b. 1668) [category: Deaths]
• 1758: James Monroe, American politician, 5th President of the United States (d. 1831) [category: Births]
• 1765: Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician (d. 1834) [category: Births]
• 1772: Johann Friedrich Struensee, German physician of Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1737) [category: Deaths]
• 1781: Cornelius Harnett, American merchant, farmer, and statesman, delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723) [category: Deaths]
• 1788: Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1792: France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium), beginning the French Revolutionary War. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1813: Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (b. 1745) [category: Deaths]
• 1816: Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher (b. 1862) [category: Deaths]
• 1819: Ezra Abbot, American scholar (d. 1884) [category: Births]
• 1827: William Nelson Hall, Canadian sailor (d. 1904) [category: Births]
• 1838: Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1913) [category: Births]
• 1841: Peter Chanel, French saint (b. 1803) [category: Deaths]
• 1853: Ludwig Tieck, German writer (b. 1773) [category: Deaths]
• 1858: Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (b. 1801) [category: Deaths]
• 1863: Josiah Thomas, Australian politician (d. 1933) [category: Births]
• 1865: Samuel Cunard, Canadian-English shipping magnate (b. 1787) [category: Deaths]
• 1868: Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (d. 1908) [category: Births]
• 1868: Hélène de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1868: Lucy Booth, Indian songwriter and commander (d. 1953) [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1870: August Schmierer, German rugby player (death date unknown) [category: Births]
• 1874: Karl Kraus, Austrian journalist and author (d. 1936) [category: Births]
• 1876: Nicola Romeo, Italian automobile engineer and entrepreneur (d. 1938) [category: Births]
• 1878: Lionel Barrymore, American actor (d. 1954) [category: Births]
• 1881: Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon, French sculptor and photographer (b. 1818) [category: Deaths]
• 1883: John Russell, English parson, hunter and dog breeder (b. 1795) [category: Deaths]
• 1887: A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war. [category: Events]
• 1888: Walter Tull, English footballer (d. 1918) [category: Births]
• 1889: António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese politician (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1891: Charlie Patton, American Delta blues guitarist (d. 1934) [category: Births]
• 1897: Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1900: Heinrich Müller, German police official (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1900: Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1902: Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1902: Cyprien Tanguay, French-Canadian priest and historian (b. 1819) [category: Deaths]
• 1905: Fitzhugh Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1835) [category: Deaths]
• 1906: Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1906: Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1906: Pierre Boileau, French writer (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1908: Oskar Schindler, Austro-Hungarian industrialist (d. 1974) [category: Births]
• 1910: Sam Merwin, Jr., American writer (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1910: Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England. [category: Events]
• 1911: Lee Falk, American writer (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1912: Kaneto Shindō, Japanese director [category: Births]
• 1912: Odette Sansom Hallowes, French resistance worker (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1914: Philip E. High, English author (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1916: Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian industrialist and automobile manufacturer, created Lamborghini (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1920: Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union. [category: Events]
• 1921: Rowland Evans, American journalist (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1921: Simin Daneshvar, Iranian writer and translator (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1923: William Guarnere, American soldier and Sergeant [category: Births]
• 1924: Blossom Dearie, American singer and pianist, (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1924: Donatas Banionis, Lithuanian actor [category: Births]
• 1924: Kenneth Kaunda, Zambian teacher and politician, 1st President of Zambia [category: Births]
• 1925: T. John Lesinski, American politician and judge, 51st Lieutenant Governor of Michigan [category: Births]
• 1926: Harper Lee, American author [category: Births]
• 1928: Eugene M. Shoemaker, American scientist (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1928: Yves Klein, French painter (d. 1962) [category: Births]
• 1929: Hendrik van Heuckelum, Dutch footballer (b. 1879) [category: Deaths]
• 1930: Carolyn Jones, American actress (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1930: James Baker, American politician [category: Births]
• 1930: The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas. [category: Events]
• 1932: Brownie Ledbetter, American civil rights activist (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1932: A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans. [category: Events]
• 1934: Lois Duncan, American novelist [category: Births]
• 1936: Fuad I of Egypt (b. 1868) [category: Deaths]
• 1937: Jean Redpath, Scottish singer [category: Births]
• 1937: John White, Scottish footballer (d. 1964) [category: Births]
• 1937: Saddam Hussein, Iraqi politician, 5th President of Iraq (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1938: Madge Sinclair, Jamaican actress (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1941: Ann-Margret, Swedish actress [category: Births]
• 1941: Iryna Zhylenko, Ukrainian poet [category: Births]
• 1941: Karl Barry Sharpless, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1941: Lucien Aimar, French cyclist [category: Births]
• 1941: Nico Mastorakis, Greek director and producer [category: Births]
• 1942: Mike Brearley, English cricketer [category: Births]
• 1943: Jacques Dutronc, French singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, and actor [category: Births]
• 1943: Yoav Talmi, Israeli conductor and composer [category: Births]
• 1944: Alice Waters, American chef [category: Births]
• 1944: Elizabeth LeCompte, American director [category: Births]
• 1944: Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe, Belgian politician [category: Births]
• 1944: Frank Knox, American Secretary of the Navy (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1944: Mohammed Alim Khan, the last Emir of the Emirate of Bukhara (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1944: World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946. [category: Events]
• 1945: John Wolters, American musician (Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show) (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1945: Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: Clara Petacci, Italian mistress of Benito Mussolini (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: Hermann Fegelein, Waffen-SS General (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: Roberto Farinacci, Italian politician (b. 1892) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement. [category: Events]
• 1946: Ginette Reno, French Canadian singer-songwriter, author, and actress [category: Births]
• 1946: Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (b. 1870) [category: Deaths]
• 1947: Christian Jacq, French author and Egyptologist [category: Births]
• 1947: Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia. [category: Events]
• 1948: Dorothée Berryman, Canadian actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1948: Marcia Strassman, American actress [category: Births]
• 1948: Terry Pratchett, English author [category: Births]
• 1948: Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus, in New York City at New York City Center. [category: Events]
• 1949: Bruno Kirby, American actor (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1949: Indian Larry, American motorcycle builder, stunt rider, and biker (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1949: Paul Guilfoyle, American actor [category: Births]
• 1949: Aurora Quezon, Filipino first lady, 2nd First Lady of the Philippines (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
• 1949: Former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, 61, is assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and 10 others are also killed. [category: Events]
• 1950: Jay Leno, American comedian and talk show host [category: Births]
• 1950: Willie Colón, Puerto Rican trombonist and producer [category: Births]
• 1950: Bhumibol Adulyadej marries Queen Sirikit after their quiet engagement in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 19, 1949. [category: Events]
• 1951: Larry Smith, Canadian football player and politician [category: Births]
• 1952: Chuck Leavell, keyboard player, Allman Brothers, Sea Level and others [category: Births]
• 1952: Mary McDonnell, American actress [category: Births]
• 1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. [category: Events]
• 1952: Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends as the Treaty of San Francisco, ratified September 8, 1951, comes into force. [category: Events]
• 1952: The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War. [category: Events]
• 1953: Kim Gordon, American singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and fashion designer (Sonic Youth, Ciccone Youth, and Free Kitten) [category: Births]
• 1953: Roberto Bolaño, Chilean author and poet (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1954: Ron Zook, American football coach [category: Births]
• 1954: Timothy Curley, American athletic director [category: Births]
• 1954: Vic Sotto, Filipino actor, comedian, and producer [category: Births]
• 1954: Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1879) [category: Deaths]
• 1955: Nicky Gumbel, English author and priest [category: Births]
• 1956: Jimmy Barnes, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and musician Cold Chisel, Fraternity, and Living Loud) [category: Births]
• 1957: Wilma Landkroon, Dutch singer [category: Births]
• 1957: Heinrich Bär, German pilot (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1958: Hal Sutton, American golfer [category: Births]
• 1958: Nancy Lee Grahn, American actress [category: Births]
• 1959: Erhard Loretan, Swiss mountaineer (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1960: Ian Rankin, Scottish novelist [category: Births]
• 1960: John Cerutti, American baseball player and announcer (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1960: Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic athlete (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1960: Steven Blum, American voice actor [category: Births]
• 1960: Walter Zenga, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1961: Anna Oxa, Italian singer [category: Births]
• 1961: Futoshi Matsunaga, Japanese serial killer [category: Births]
• 1963: Lloyd Eisler, Canadian figure skater [category: Births]
• 1963: Marc Lacroix, Belgian biochemist [category: Births]
• 1963: Wilhelm Weber, German gymnast (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: Barry Larkin, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1964: Noriyuki Iwadare, Japanese composer [category: Births]
• 1964: Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
• 1965: Jennifer Rardin, American author (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1966: John Daly, American golfer [category: Births]
• 1966: Too Short, American rapper, producer, and actor [category: Births]
• 1967: Kari Wührer, American actress [category: Births]
• 1968: Andy Flower, Zimbabwean cricketer [category: Births]
• 1968: Howard Donald, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Take That) [category: Births]
• 1968: Scott Putesky, American musician (Jack Off Jill) [category: Births]
• 1969: Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France. [category: Events]
• 1970: Diego Simeone, Argentine footballer [category: Births]
• 1970: Nicklas Lidström, Swedish ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1970: Ed Begley, American actor (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia. [category: Events]
• 1971: Brad McEwan, Australian journalist [category: Births]
• 1971: Bridget Moynahan, American actress [category: Births]
• 1972: Joseph Bruce, American rapper, producer, wrestler and actor (Insane Clown Posse, Dark Lotus, and Psychopathic Rydas) [category: Births]
• 1973: Earl Holmes, American football player [category: Births]
• 1973: Elisabeth Röhm, German-American actress [category: Births]
• 1973: Francisco Palencia, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1973: Jorge Garcia, American actor [category: Births]
• 1973: Serge Zwikker, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1973: Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: Dominic Matteo, Scottish footballer [category: Births]
• 1974: Margo Dydek, Polish basketball player (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1974: Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress [category: Births]
• 1974: Richel Hersisia, Dutch boxer [category: Births]
• 1974: Vernon Kay, English disc jockey, model, and television presenter [category: Births]
• 1975: Tom Donahue, American disk jockey (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 1975: General Cao Van Vien, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory. [category: Events]
• 1977: Derrick Wayne Frazier, American convicted murderer (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1977: The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1978: Lauren Laverne, English disc jockey, author, singer, and television presenter [category: Births]
• 1978: Mohammed Daoud Khan, Afghan politician, 1st President of Afghanistan (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels. [category: Events]
• 1979: Bahram Radan, Iranian actor [category: Births]
• 1979: Scott Fujita, American football player [category: Births]
• 1980: Josh Howard, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1980: Karolina Goceva, Macedonian singer [category: Births]
• 1980: Tommy Caldwell, American musician (The Marshall Tucker Band) (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Alex Riley, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1981: Jessica Alba, American actress [category: Births]
• 1981: Pietro Travagli, Italian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1981: Steve Currie, English musician (T. Rex) (b. 1947) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Chris Kaman, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1982: Harry Shum, Jr., American dancer and actor [category: Births]
• 1982: Nikki Grahame, English model and columnist [category: Births]
• 1983: Roger Johnson, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Dmitri Torbinski, Russian footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Leon Legge, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Lucas Jakubczyk, German athlete [category: Births]
• 1986: David Krejci, Czech ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1986: George Nozuka, Canadian singer and dancer [category: Births]
• 1986: Jenna Ushkowitz, Korean-American actress, singer, and dancer [category: Births]
• 1986: Jennifer Palm Lundberg, Swedish model, Miss World Sweden 2008 [category: Births]
• 1986: Roman Polák, Czech ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1987: Bradley Johnson, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Ryan Conroy, Scottish footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Indian Actress [category: Births]
• 1987: Zoran Tošić, Serbian footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Ben Linder, American engineer (b. 1959) [category: Deaths]
• 1987: American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua. [category: Events]
• 1988: Jonathan Biabiany, French footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Juan Manuel Mata, Spanish footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Katariina Tuohimaa, Finnish tennis player [category: Births]
• 1988: B. W. Stevenson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1989: Emil Salomonsson, Swedish footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Mario Meraz, Mexican boxer [category: Births]
• 1990: Niels-Peter Mørck, Danish footballer [category: Births]
• 1991: Jordan Robinson, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1991: Ken Curtis, American actor and singer (The Sons of the Pioneers) (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Steve Broidy, American executive (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Jack Taylor, American actor [category: Births]
• 1992: Francis Bacon, Anglo-Irish painter (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Iceberg Slim, American writer (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Jim Valvano, American basketball coach (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Berton Roueché, American writer (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1996: Lester Sumrall, American evangelist (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: In Tasmania, Australia, Martin Bryant goes on a shooting spree, killing 35 people and seriously injuring 21 more. [category: Events]
• 1996: Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense. [category: Events]
• 1998: Jerome Bixby, American writer (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Ramakant Desai, Indian cricketer (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Alf Ramsey, English football manager (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Rory Calhoun, American actor (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: In Alberta, Canada, 14-year-old Todd Cameron Smith fires upon three students, killing one and wounding another in the W. R. Myers High School shooting. [category: Events]
• 2000: Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish doctor, researcher and politician (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Penelope Fitzgerald, English writer (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist. [category: Events]
• 2002: Alexander Lebed, Russian general (b. 1950) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Lou Thesz, American wrestler (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Chris Candido, American wrestler (b. 1972) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Percy Heath, American jazz bassist (Modern Jazz Quartet) (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Taraki Sivaram, Tamil journalist (b. 1959) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Bertha Wilson, Canadian jurist, first woman Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Dabbs Greer, American actor (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: René Mailhot, Canadian journalist (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Tommy Newsom, American saxophone player and bandleader (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: A train collision in Shandong, China, kills 72 people and injures 416 more. [category: Events]
• 2009: Ekaterina Maximova, Russian ballerina (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Richard Pratt, Australian businessman (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Valeria Peter Predescu, Romanian singer (b. 1947) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Erhard Loretan, Swiss mountaineer (b. 1959) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Fred Allen, New Zealand rugby union footballer and coach (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• _: April 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Feast of Jamál ("Beauty"), the first day of the third month of the Bahá'í calendar. (Bahá'í Faith) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Louis de Montfort [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: National Day (Sardinia) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: National Day of Mourning, to commemorate workers killed, injured, or suffering illness from occupational hazards and accidents. (Canada) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: National Heroes Day (Barbados) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Peter Chanel [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: The first day of the Floralia, in honor of Flora. (Roman Empire) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Vitalis and Valeria of Milan [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Workers Memorial Day (International) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: World Day for Safety and Health at Work (International) [category: Holidays and observances]