Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 28
This is a list of selected April 28 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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University of Santo Tomas
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Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago)
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1192 – Third Crusade: Conrad of Montferrat, the elected King of Jerusalem, was fatally stabbed by members of the Hashshashin. | needs more footnotes, refimprove |
| 1978 – Mohammed Daoud Khan, the first President of Afghanistan, was overthrown and assassinated in a coup d'état by pro-communist supporters. | refimprove |
| 1988 – Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing fell to her death after she was blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243 when part of the plane's fuselage ripped open in mid-flight. | refimprove |
| 1996 – A spree shooter in the Port Arthur massacre killed 35 people, and seriously injured 37 in Tasmania, Australia. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1611 – The University of Santo Tomas in Manila, one of the oldest existing universities in Asia and one of the world's largest Catholic universities in terms of enrollment, was founded.
- 1789 – About 1,300 miles west of Tahiti, near Tonga, Fletcher Christian, the master's mate on board the Royal Navy ship HMAV Bounty, led a mutiny against the ship's commander William Bligh.
- 1920 – The Soviet Union established the Azerbaijan SSR after the government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic surrendered to the invading Bolsheviks.
- 1923 – London's Wembley Stadium, then known as Empire Stadium, was opened to the public for the first time and held the 1923 FA Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United football clubs.
- 1952 – The Treaty of San Francisco entered into force, ending the occupation of Japan by the former Allied Powers of World War II.
- 1969 – Charles de Gaulle, the first President of the French Fifth Republic, resigned following his defeat on a nationwide referendum.
- 2001 – Dennis Tito became the world's first fee-paying space tourist, riding the Russian Soyuz TM-32 spacecraft to the International Space Station.
- 2008 – The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago, at the time the world's highest residence above ground-level at 1,389 feet (423 m), held its full service grand opening.
Notes
- Charles de Gaulle also featured on January 20
April 28: International Workers' Memorial Day; Heroes' Day in Barbados
- 1887 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé (pictured) was released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war.
- 1949 – Former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, her daughter, and ten bystanders were assassinated by the military arm of the Philippine Communist Party.
- 1952 – Japan and the Republic of China signed the Treaty of Taipei to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War, seven years after fighting in that conflict ended due to World War II.
- 1975 – Chief of the South Vietnamese army Cao Van Vien fled the country as the North Vietnamese closed in on Saigon.
- 1994 – Former CIA counter-intelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleaded guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.