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Old 04-28-2016, 02:03 PM   #37
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April 28, 1503

Battle of Cerignola, the first battle in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder (as opposed to black powder).

1789

Mutiny on the Bounty, Lt. Bligh and 18 others are set adrift, while the remaining crew return, temporarily, to Tahiti.

1869

Chinese and Irish laborers lay ten miles of railroad track in one day, a record that remains unbroken today.

1881

Billy The Kid escapes from the Lincoln County, New Mexico jail.

1932

A vaccine for yellow fever is announced.

1945

Benito Mussolini and his mistress are executed by firing squad.

1947

Thor Heyerdahl, and five crew, set out from Peru on the Kontiki, to prove ancient Peruvians could have settled in Polynesia.

1952

Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.

U.S. occupation of Japan ends.

1967

Muhammad Ali refuses induction to the U.S. Army. He is stripped of his boxing championship and license.

1969

Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.

1988

Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, to her death, when part of the 737's fuselage separates mid-flight.

1994

Former CIA officer/analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to espionage.

2001

Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist.

Births

James Monroe-1758; Lionel Barrymore-1878; Jan Oort-1900; Oskar Schindler-1908; Ferruccio Lamborghini-1916; Harper Lee-1926; James Baker-1930; Tariq Aziz-1936; Saddam Hussein-1937; Ann-Margret-1941; Terry Pratchett-1948; Bruno Kirby, Indian Larry-1949; Jay Leno-1950; Chuck Leavell, Mary McDonnell-1952; Hal Sutton-1958; Elena Kagan-1960; John Daly-1966

Deaths

John "Jack" Russell-1883; Benito Mussolini-1945; Ed Begley (Sr.)-1970; Tommy Caldwell-1980; Steve Currie-1981; Ken Curtis-1991; Jim Valvano-1993; Rory Calhoun-1999; Dabbs Greer, Tommy Newsom-2007; Vern Gosdin "The Voice"-2009; Jack Ely-2015
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