Today is April 28. On this date in:
1758
The fifth president of the United States, James Monroe, was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
1789
There was a mutiny on the HMS Bounty as rebelling crew members of the British ship set the captain, William Bligh, and 18 others adrift in a launch in the South Pacific. (Bligh and most of the men with him reached Timor in 47 days.)
1918
Gavrilo Princip, 23, the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and the archduke’s wife, Sophie, died in prison of tuberculosis.
1945
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were executed by Italian partisans as they attempted to flee the country.
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1958
The United States conducted the first of 35 nuclear test explosions in the Pacific Proving Ground as part of Operation Hardtack I.
1958
Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, began a goodwill tour of Latin America that was marred by hostile mobs in Lima, Peru, and Caracas, Venezuela.
1964
Hall of Fame shortstop Barry Larkin of the Cincinnati Reds was born in Cincinnati.
1967
Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali was stripped of his title after he refused to be inducted into the armed forces.
1980
President Jimmy Carter accepted the resignation of Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, who had opposed the failed rescue mission aimed at freeing American hostages in Iran.
1988
A flight attendant was killed and more than 60 persons injured when part of the roof of an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 tore off during a flight from Hilo to Honolulu.
1990
The musical “A Chorus Line” closed after 6,137 performances on Broadway.
1993
The first “Take Our Daughters to Work Day,” promoted by the New York-based Ms. Foundation, was held in an attempt to boost the self-esteem of girls by having them visit a parent’s place of work. (The event was later expanded to include sons.)
1996
A man armed with a semiautomatic rifle went on a rampage on the Australian island of Tasmania, killing 35 people; the gunman was captured after a 12-hour standoff at a guest cottage, and is now serving a life prison sentence.
2009
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, a Cincinnati native, won Senate confirmation as health and human services secretary.
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