TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – APRIL 28
1282 Villagers in Palermo lead a revolt against French rule in Sicily.
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.
1896 The Addressograph was patented by J.S. Duncan.
1914 W H Carrier patents air conditioner
1914 181 die in coal mine collapse at Eccles WV
1919 Les Irvin makes the first jump with an Army Air Corps parachute.
1924 119 die in Benwood WV coal mine disaster
1932 A yellow fever vaccine for humans is 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.
1947 Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl and five others set out in a balsa wood craft known as Kon Tiki to prove that Peruvian Indians could have settled in Polynesia.
1952 The U.S. occupation of Japan officially ended when a treaty with the U.S. and 47 other countries went into effect.
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.
1989 Iran protests sale of “Satanic Verses” by Salman Rushdie
1992 The U.S. Agriculture Department unveiled a pyramid-shaped recommended-diet chart.
1994 Former CIA officer Aldrich Ames admits he forwarded U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union
1999 The U.S. House of Representatives rejected (on a tie vote of 213-213) a measure expressing support for NATO’s five-week-old air campaign in Yugoslavia. The House also voted to limit the president’s authority to use ground forces in Yugoslavia.
2001 A Russian rocket launched from Central Asia with the first space tourist aboard. The crew consisted of California businessman Dennis Tito and two cosmonauts. The destination was the international space station.
2004 The first Abu Ghraib torture pictures are published
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