TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – APRIL 28
0357 Constantius II visits Rome for the first time.
1611 Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, oldest existing university in Asia and largest Catholic university in the world
1635 Virginia Governor John Harvey is accused of treason and removed from office.
1788 Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the constitution
1789 The crew of the HMS Bounty mutinies against Captain William Bligh.
1856 Yokut Indians repel an attack on their land by 100 would-be Indian fighters in California.
1914 W H Carrier patents air conditioner
1920 Azerbaijan joins the Soviet Union.
1932 Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced
1934 FDR signs Home Owners Loan Act
1944 Exercise “Tiger” ends with 750 US soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats
1945 Benito Mussolini is killed by Italian partisans.
1965 The U.S. Army and Marines invade the Dominican Republic.
1967 Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the U.S. Army and is stripped of his boxing title.
1977 Andreas Baader and members of terrorist group the Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Gang) jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly 2 years in Stuttgart, Germany
1989 Iran protests sale of “Satanic Verses” by Salman Rushdie
1992 The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture unveiled its first “food pyramid.”
1994 Former CIA officer Aldrich Ames admits he forwarded U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union
2004 The Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal first comes to light when graphic photos of U.S. soldiers physically abusing and humiliating Iraqi prisoners were shown on CBS’s 60 Minutes II.
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