A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on April 28 throughout history.
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Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, the Catholic University of the Philippines, the oldest existing university in Asia and the largest Catholic university in the world
HMS Endeavour was a Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded to Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia on his first voyage of discovery from 1768 to 1771. She was launched in 1764…
Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against its captain William Bligh in the South Pacific
The 1910 London to Manchester air race took place between two aviators, each of whom attempted to win a heavier-than-air powered flight challenge between London and Manchester.
Pan American World Airways, originally founded as Pan American Airways and more commonly known as Pan Am, was an airline that was the principal and largest international air carrier and unofficial...
Andreas Baader and members of the terrorist group Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Gang) are jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly two years in Stuttgart, Germany
RCA and GE install three test television sets in homes in Schenectady, New York, allowing trials of inventor E.F.W. Alexanderson's first home television receiver; a poor and unsteady 1.5-square-inch picture is received from a radio transmitter
The year 1965 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1965.
Glenn Miller records the song "Pennsylvania 6-5000" in NYC; tune is named after phone number of the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan
"Europe's first motoring competition" is 'won' by The Marquis de Dion on a steam-powered quadricycle built by French toymaker and engineer Georges Bouton; French newspaper Le Velocipede organized the 'test', and Bouton was the only participant
Andre Agassi recaptures the world #1 ranking to become the oldest top-ranked male in the history of the ATP rankings at 33 years and 13 days
Philip II (21 August 1165 – 14 July 1223), also known as Philip Augustus (French: Philippe Auguste), was King of France from 1180 to 1223.
Chief Justice John Jay (28) weds Sarah Van Brugh Livingston (17)
Painter Paul Cézanne (47) weds Marie-Hortense Fiquet (36)
"Princess of Rock and Roll" Lisa Marie Presley separates from musician Danny Keough
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.
-May 7th) Utrecht destroyed by fire
English "Good Parliament" begins meeting in London, will sit till 10th July, then the longest-sitting English parliament
Battle at Cerignalo: Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba defeats a French force led by Louis d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours
Charles V (24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain (as Charles I) from 1516 to 1556, King of Sicily and Naples from 1516...
Virginia Governor John Harvey accused of treason and removed from office
English General-at-Sea Robert Blake (he was never titled Admiral) beats North African pirate fleet
Dutch ship Vergulde Draeck (Gilt Dragon) laden with eight chests of silver, wrecks on the western coast of Australia with the loss of 118 lives [1]
French-Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet sets out from Quebec leading the first documented journey of the Labrador coastline (reaches Zoar area) [1]
82 survivors of the Dutch ship Zeewijk sail into Batavia on a hand-built boat, ten months after being shipwrecked off the western coast of Australia [1]
31 British ships sail up the Suriname River, demanding the transfer of the colony from the Dutch
Dutch parliament accepts new press laws
George B. Vashon becomes 1st African American to enter New York State Bar
Slavery in France, and by extension, the French Empire, covers a wide range of disparate topics. During the Middle Ages, chattel slavery was legal in France itself.
First veterinary college in the US is incorporated in Boston
L'Africaine (The African Woman) is an 1837 five-act French grand opéra by Giacomo Meyerbeer, with a libretto by Eugène Scribe.
Cleveland's Bock Baker gives up a record 23 singles as White Sox beat Blues (Cleveland Blues!) 13-1
Using the ISO 8601 standard Year Zero definition for the Gregorian calendar preceded by the Julian calendar, the one billionth minute since the start of January 1 Year Zero occurs at 10:40 AM on this date
die in coal mine collapse at Eccles, West Virginia
American stuntman and parachute developer Leslie Irvin (23) makes the first premeditated free-fall parachute jump from a plane above the US Army Air Service's McCook Field near Dayton, Ohio [1]
Azerbaijan SSR joins USSR (1st time)
WOI (Ames, Iowa) country's 1st licensed educational radio station
die in coal mine disaster at Benwood, West Virginia
Kurdish rebels surrender to Turkish army
Minor league baseball teams were based in Independence, Kansas in various seasons between 1896 and 1952.
The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: Olympische Sommerspiele 1936), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: Spiele der XI.
Soccer team Blue White '34 forms
The Moscow Metro is a rapid transit system in the Moscow metropolitan area of Russia.
First animated cartoon electric sign is displayed in NYC
The German invasion of Greece or Operation Marita (German: Unternehmen Marita), were the attacks on Greece by Italy and Germany during World War II.
"WWII" continues to be titled so as a result of a Gallup Poll after US President Franklin Roosevelt suggests other names [1]
1st performance of Marc Blitzstein's "Freedom Morning"
Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 US soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats off Slapton Sands, Devon.
British commandos attack Elbe & occupy Lauenburg
Former Philippine First Lady Aurora Quezon, 61, assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and 10 others also killed
WBIQ TV channel 10 in Birmingham, Alabama (PBS) begins broadcasting
WSOC TV channel 9 in Charlotte, North Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting
In 1952, the United Kingdom became the third country (after the United States and the Soviet Union) to develop and test nuclear weapons, and is one of the five nuclear-weapon states under the Treaty...
KLOE TV channel 10 in Goodland, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
Lt Col Gueorgui Mossolov takes E-66A to 34,714 m altitude
17th Tony Awards: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (play) and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" (musical) win
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; French: Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member...
King Crimson are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968 by Robert Fripp, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald and Peter Sinfield.
Dutch social democratic party/D'66/DS'70 win parliamentary election
Over 6000 Mk. 82 500 pound bombs detonate over 18 hrs in a railyard in northern California. 5500 structures damaged, town of Antelope destroyed, with every building reduced to foundations. Leads to Transportation Safety Act (1974)
Christopher John Boyce is a former American defense industry employee who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union in 1977. Boyce was raised in Southern California and began working for aerospace...
Cyrus Vance, Carter's US Secretary of State, resigns
"We’re Fighting Back" premieres on CBS in the US, based on the formation of the Guardian Angels
Argentine government declares all 15-30,000 missing persons dead
Benjamin Ernest Linder (July 7, 1959 – April 28, 1987), was an American engineer. While working on a small hydroelectric dam in rural northern Nicaragua, Linder was killed with two of his colleagues...
Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess
Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money
Boston Celtics score most points in a playoff, beat NY Knicks 157-128
The history of the Italian Republic concerns the events relating to the history of Italy that have occurred since 1946, when Italy became a republic after the 1946 Italian institutional referendum.
The Ciampi Cabinet, led by the former Governor of the Bank of Italy Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, was the 50th cabinet of the Italian Republic and the second and final cabinet of the XI Legislature.
Gas explosion in South Korean metro, 103 die
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.
"Jekyll & Hyde" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC
Space tourism is human space travel for recreational purposes. There are several different types of space tourism, including orbital, suborbital and lunar space tourism.
The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Superstition Mountain G&CC: Jim Thorpe wins his lone career major title with birdie on first playoff hole against John Jacobs
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time, in exchange for publishing...
ICC Men's Cricket ODI World Cup, Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados: Australia 3-peat with 53 run win over Sri Lanka; Player of the Match: Adam Gilchrist (AUS) 149 (104) & 2 catches
Cameron Jerrell Newton is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons, primarily with the Carolina Panthers.
Tent collapse in St Louis, Missouri, kills one and injures 110 people
3 people are killed and 14 are injured after a gas explosions causes a building to collapse in Reims, France
The Late Late Show is an American late-night television talk and variety comedy show that originally aired from January 9, 1995, to April 27, 2023, on CBS.
Jared Thomas Goff is an American professional football quarterback for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL).
Indian government announces electricity has now reached every Indian village
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
The global COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe becomes the first spacecraft to cross the Alfvén critical boundary, the outer atmosphere of the Sun [1]
A worse than usual rainy season across East Africa due to El Nino kills at least 155 people in Tanzania and 60 in Kenya with hundreds of thousands displaced [1]
Airports, hospitals, and public transit shut down due to a widespread power outage in Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and parts of France [1]
James Monroe is born
Saddam Hussein is born
Lionel Barrymore, American actor, director, screenwriter, known for american actor, director, screenwriter, was born on 1878-04-28.
Oskar Schindler, German industrialist and humanitarian, known for german industrialist and humanitarian, was born on 1908-04-28.
Carolyn Jones, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1930-04-28. Carolyn Sue Jones (April 28, 1930 – August 3, 1983) was an American actress of television and film.
Jay Leno, American television host and comedian, known for american television host and comedian, was born on 1951-04-28. James Douglas Muir Leno is an American television host, comedian, and writer.
Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress, known for spanish actress, was born on 1975-04-28. Penélope Cruz Sánchez is a Spanish actress.
Jessica Alba, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1982-04-28. Jessica Marie Alba ( AL-bə; born April 28, 1981) is an American actress and businesswoman.
Too Short, American musician, known for american rapper, was born on 1967-04-28. Todd Anthony Shaw, better known by his stage name Too Short (stylized as Too $hort), is an American rapper.
Melanie Martinez, American musician, known for american singer-songwriter, was born on 1996-04-28. Melanie Adele Martinez is an American singer and songwriter.
John Daly is born
Harry Crerar, Canadian general, known for canadian general, was born on 1888-04-28.
Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian assassin of archduke franz ferdinand, known for assassin of archduke franz ferdinand, died on 1918-04-28.
Benito Mussolini dies
Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist; co-inventor of the laser, known for american physicist; co-inventor of the laser, died on 1999-04-28.
Astronaut Michael Collins, American astronaut, known for american astronaut, died on 2021-04-28.
Philip II (21 August 1165 – 14 July 1223), also known as Philip Augustus (French: Philippe Auguste), was King of France from 1180 to 1223.
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.
-May 7th) Utrecht destroyed by fire
English "Good Parliament" begins meeting in London, will sit till 10th July, then the longest-sitting English parliament
Battle at Cerignalo: Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba defeats a French force led by Louis d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours
Charles V (24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain (as Charles I) from 1516 to 1556, King of Sicily and Naples from 1516...
Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, the Catholic University of the Philippines, the oldest existing university in Asia and the largest Catholic university in the world
Virginia Governor John Harvey accused of treason and removed from office
English General-at-Sea Robert Blake (he was never titled Admiral) beats North African pirate fleet
Dutch ship Vergulde Draeck (Gilt Dragon) laden with eight chests of silver, wrecks on the western coast of Australia with the loss of 118 lives [1]
French-Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet sets out from Quebec leading the first documented journey of the Labrador coastline (reaches Zoar area) [1]
82 survivors of the Dutch ship Zeewijk sail into Batavia on a hand-built boat, ten months after being shipwrecked off the western coast of Australia [1]
James Monroe is born
HMS Endeavour was a Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded to Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia on his first voyage of discovery from 1768 to 1771. She was launched in 1764…
Chief Justice John Jay (28) weds Sarah Van Brugh Livingston (17)
Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against its captain William Bligh in the South Pacific
31 British ships sail up the Suriname River, demanding the transfer of the colony from the Dutch
Dutch parliament accepts new press laws
George B. Vashon becomes 1st African American to enter New York State Bar
Slavery in France, and by extension, the French Empire, covers a wide range of disparate topics. During the Middle Ages, chattel slavery was legal in France itself.
First veterinary college in the US is incorporated in Boston
L'Africaine (The African Woman) is an 1837 five-act French grand opéra by Giacomo Meyerbeer, with a libretto by Eugène Scribe.
Lionel Barrymore, American actor, director, screenwriter, known for american actor, director, screenwriter, was born on 1878-04-28.
Painter Paul Cézanne (47) weds Marie-Hortense Fiquet (36)
"Europe's first motoring competition" is 'won' by The Marquis de Dion on a steam-powered quadricycle built by French toymaker and engineer Georges Bouton; French newspaper Le Velocipede organized the 'test', and Bouton was the only participant
Harry Crerar, Canadian general, known for canadian general, was born on 1888-04-28.
Cleveland's Bock Baker gives up a record 23 singles as White Sox beat Blues (Cleveland Blues!) 13-1
Using the ISO 8601 standard Year Zero definition for the Gregorian calendar preceded by the Julian calendar, the one billionth minute since the start of January 1 Year Zero occurs at 10:40 AM on this date
Oskar Schindler, German industrialist and humanitarian, known for german industrialist and humanitarian, was born on 1908-04-28.
The 1910 London to Manchester air race took place between two aviators, each of whom attempted to win a heavier-than-air powered flight challenge between London and Manchester.
die in coal mine collapse at Eccles, West Virginia
Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian assassin of archduke franz ferdinand, known for assassin of archduke franz ferdinand, died on 1918-04-28.
American stuntman and parachute developer Leslie Irvin (23) makes the first premeditated free-fall parachute jump from a plane above the US Army Air Service's McCook Field near Dayton, Ohio [1]
Azerbaijan SSR joins USSR (1st time)
WOI (Ames, Iowa) country's 1st licensed educational radio station
die in coal mine disaster at Benwood, West Virginia
Kurdish rebels surrender to Turkish army
RCA and GE install three test television sets in homes in Schenectady, New York, allowing trials of inventor E.F.W. Alexanderson's first home television receiver; a poor and unsteady 1.5-square-inch picture is received from a radio transmitter
Minor league baseball teams were based in Independence, Kansas in various seasons between 1896 and 1952.
Carolyn Jones, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1930-04-28. Carolyn Sue Jones (April 28, 1930 – August 3, 1983) was an American actress of television and film.
The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: Olympische Sommerspiele 1936), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: Spiele der XI.
Soccer team Blue White '34 forms
The Moscow Metro is a rapid transit system in the Moscow metropolitan area of Russia.
Pan American World Airways, originally founded as Pan American Airways and more commonly known as Pan Am, was an airline that was the principal and largest international air carrier and unofficial...
First animated cartoon electric sign is displayed in NYC
Saddam Hussein is born
Glenn Miller records the song "Pennsylvania 6-5000" in NYC; tune is named after phone number of the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan
The German invasion of Greece or Operation Marita (German: Unternehmen Marita), were the attacks on Greece by Italy and Germany during World War II.
"WWII" continues to be titled so as a result of a Gallup Poll after US President Franklin Roosevelt suggests other names [1]
1st performance of Marc Blitzstein's "Freedom Morning"
Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 US soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats off Slapton Sands, Devon.
British commandos attack Elbe & occupy Lauenburg
Benito Mussolini dies
Former Philippine First Lady Aurora Quezon, 61, assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and 10 others also killed
Jay Leno, American television host and comedian, known for american television host and comedian, was born on 1951-04-28. James Douglas Muir Leno is an American television host, comedian, and writer.
WBIQ TV channel 10 in Birmingham, Alabama (PBS) begins broadcasting
WSOC TV channel 9 in Charlotte, North Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting
In 1952, the United Kingdom became the third country (after the United States and the Soviet Union) to develop and test nuclear weapons, and is one of the five nuclear-weapon states under the Treaty...
KLOE TV channel 10 in Goodland, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
Lt Col Gueorgui Mossolov takes E-66A to 34,714 m altitude
17th Tony Awards: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (play) and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" (musical) win
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; French: Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member...
The year 1965 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1965.
Too Short, American musician, known for american rapper, was born on 1967-04-28. Todd Anthony Shaw, better known by his stage name Too Short (stylized as Too $hort), is an American rapper.
John Daly is born
King Crimson are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968 by Robert Fripp, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald and Peter Sinfield.
Dutch social democratic party/D'66/DS'70 win parliamentary election
Over 6000 Mk. 82 500 pound bombs detonate over 18 hrs in a railyard in northern California. 5500 structures damaged, town of Antelope destroyed, with every building reduced to foundations. Leads to Transportation Safety Act (1974)
Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress, known for spanish actress, was born on 1975-04-28. Penélope Cruz Sánchez is a Spanish actress.
Andreas Baader and members of the terrorist group Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Gang) are jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly two years in Stuttgart, Germany
Christopher John Boyce is a former American defense industry employee who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union in 1977. Boyce was raised in Southern California and began working for aerospace...
Cyrus Vance, Carter's US Secretary of State, resigns
"We’re Fighting Back" premieres on CBS in the US, based on the formation of the Guardian Angels
Jessica Alba, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1982-04-28. Jessica Marie Alba ( AL-bə; born April 28, 1981) is an American actress and businesswoman.
Argentine government declares all 15-30,000 missing persons dead
Benjamin Ernest Linder (July 7, 1959 – April 28, 1987), was an American engineer. While working on a small hydroelectric dam in rural northern Nicaragua, Linder was killed with two of his colleagues...
Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess
Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money
Boston Celtics score most points in a playoff, beat NY Knicks 157-128
The history of the Italian Republic concerns the events relating to the history of Italy that have occurred since 1946, when Italy became a republic after the 1946 Italian institutional referendum.
The Ciampi Cabinet, led by the former Governor of the Bank of Italy Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, was the 50th cabinet of the Italian Republic and the second and final cabinet of the XI Legislature.
"Princess of Rock and Roll" Lisa Marie Presley separates from musician Danny Keough
Gas explosion in South Korean metro, 103 die
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.
Melanie Martinez, American musician, known for american singer-songwriter, was born on 1996-04-28. Melanie Adele Martinez is an American singer and songwriter.
"Jekyll & Hyde" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC
Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist; co-inventor of the laser, known for american physicist; co-inventor of the laser, died on 1999-04-28.
Space tourism is human space travel for recreational purposes. There are several different types of space tourism, including orbital, suborbital and lunar space tourism.
The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Superstition Mountain G&CC: Jim Thorpe wins his lone career major title with birdie on first playoff hole against John Jacobs
Andre Agassi recaptures the world #1 ranking to become the oldest top-ranked male in the history of the ATP rankings at 33 years and 13 days
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time, in exchange for publishing...
ICC Men's Cricket ODI World Cup, Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados: Australia 3-peat with 53 run win over Sri Lanka; Player of the Match: Adam Gilchrist (AUS) 149 (104) & 2 catches
Cameron Jerrell Newton is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons, primarily with the Carolina Panthers.
Tent collapse in St Louis, Missouri, kills one and injures 110 people
3 people are killed and 14 are injured after a gas explosions causes a building to collapse in Reims, France
The Late Late Show is an American late-night television talk and variety comedy show that originally aired from January 9, 1995, to April 27, 2023, on CBS.
Jared Thomas Goff is an American professional football quarterback for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL).
Indian government announces electricity has now reached every Indian village
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
The global COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe becomes the first spacecraft to cross the Alfvén critical boundary, the outer atmosphere of the Sun [1]
Astronaut Michael Collins, American astronaut, known for american astronaut, died on 2021-04-28.
A worse than usual rainy season across East Africa due to El Nino kills at least 155 people in Tanzania and 60 in Kenya with hundreds of thousands displaced [1]
Airports, hospitals, and public transit shut down due to a widespread power outage in Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and parts of France [1]