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| April 28th |
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| About April 28th is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 247 days remaining until the end of the calendar year. April 28th is International Workers Memorial Day. Births 1758 - James Monroe, 5th U.S. President 1878 - Lionel Barrymore, actor (A Free Soul) 1917 - Robert Woodruff Anderson, playwright (Tea and Sympathy) 1926 - Harper Lee, author (To Kill a Mockingbird) 1937 - Saddam Hussein, former Iraq dictator 1941 - Ann-Margret Olsson, actress, singer (Tommy) 1949 - Paul Guilfoyle, actor (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) 1950 - Jay Leno, comedian, television host (The Tonight Show) 1966 - John Daly, professional golver 1974 - Penélope Cruz, actress (Gothika, Volver) 1981 - Jessica Alba, actress (Dark Angel, Sin City) Deaths 1981 - Cliff Battles, Hall of Fame running back 2005 - Chris Candido, professional wrestler Events 1611 - The University of Santo Tomas, one of Asia's oldest existing & among the largest Catholic universities, was founded. 1788 - Maryland becomes the 7th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. 1923 - The original Wembley Stadium open to the public in London. 1945 - Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by Italian partisans as they attempted to flee to Switzerland. 1952 - The United States occupation of Japan after World War II ends with the ratification of Treaty of San Francisco. 1965 - United States troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship." 1967 - Muhammad Ali is arrested and stripped of his boxing title after refusing induction into the U.S. Army due to his religions views and his opposition to the Vietnam War. 2001 - 2001 - American millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist, reportedly paying nearly $20 million. 2003 - The iTunes music store opens to the public with 200,000 items available to purchase. 2004 - The first photos showing the abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq are shown on CBS' 60 Minutes II. |
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