TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: APRIL 28

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    1180 – Philip II of France (14) marries first wife Isabella of Hainault (10) at Bapaume

    1192 – Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne confirmed by election. Killing carried out by Hashshashin.

    1282 – Villagers in Palermo led a revolt against French rule in Sicily.

    1376 – English parliament demands supervision of royal spending

    1635 – Virginia Governor John Harvey was accused of treason and removed from office.

    1788 – Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the U.S. constitution.

    1789 – A mutiny on the British ship Bounty took place when a rebel crew took the ship and set sail to Pitcairn Island. The mutineers left Captain W. Bligh and 18 sailors adrift.

    1818 – US President James Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on Great Lakes and Lake Champlain

    1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Lincoln, New Mexico

    1914 – W.H. Carrier patented the design of his air conditioner.

    1932 – The yellow fever vaccine for humans was announced.

    1934 – US President FDR signs Home Owners Loan Act

    1945 – Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were executed by Italian partisans as they attempted to flee the country.

    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. The trip began in Peru and took 101 days to complete the crossing of the Pacific Ocean.

    1952 – The U.S. occupation of Japan officially ended when a treaty with the U.S. and 47 other countries went into effect.

    1958 – US Vice President Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America

    1962 – In the Sahara Desert of Algeria, a team led by Red Adair used explosives to put out the well fire known as the Devil’s Cigarette Lighter. The fire was caused by a pipe rupture on November 6, 1961.

    1965 – The U.S. Army and Marines invaded the Dominican Republic to evacuate Americans.

    1967 – Muhammad Ali refused induction into the U.S. Army and was stripped of boxing title. He cited religious grounds for his refusal.

    1971 – Samuel Lee Gravely Jr. becomes 1st black admiral in US Navy

    1977 – American defense employee Christopher John Boyce convicted for selling secrets to the Soviet Union

    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

    1983 – Argentine government declares all 15-30,000 missing persons dead

    1986 – Soviet TV news program Vremya announces a nuclear accident at Chernobyl nuclear power station, 2 days after the event

    1989 – Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money

    1994 – Former CIA official Aldrich Ames, who had given U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and then Russia, pled guilty to espionage and tax evasion. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

    1996 – U.S. President Clinton gave a 4 1/2 hour videotaped testimony as a defense witness in the criminal trial of his former Whitewater business partners.

    1996 – In Australia’s worst massacre in modern history, Martin Bryant shoots and kills 35 in Port Arthur, Tasmania. Leads to a compulsory gun buy back program and major changes to gun control laws.

    1997 – A worldwide treaty to ban chemical weapons took effect. Russia and other countries such as Iraq and North Korea did not sign.

    2004 – The first Abu Ghraib torture pictures are published – The images aired in a 60 Minutes II report showed gross human rights violations, including torture and murder, committed by U.S. soldiers and CIA personnel in the Baghdad prison.

    2013 – 8 people are killed and dozens are injured after Taliban attacks on election candidates in Pakistan

    2018 – World’s largest child sacrifice, 140 remains uncovered by archaeologists near Trujillo, Peru, dating back 550 years to Chimú civilisation

    2019 – American diver Victor Vescovo makes the deepest dive ever to the bottom of the Mariana trench at 10,927m (35,849ft), and finds a plastic bag

    2020 – US Department of Defense releases three declassified videos of possible UFOs from 2004 and 2015

    2021 – NASA’s Parker Solar Probe becomes the first spacecraft to cross the Alfvén critical boundary, the outer atmosphere of the Sun

    REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com

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