April 28 in History

Historical Events on April 28

1920 Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.

1944 World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.

1945 Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement.

1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.

1967 Vietnam War: Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses his induction into the United States Army and is subsequently stripped of his championship and license.

1969 Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.

1970 Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.

1986 High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.

1994 Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.

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Famous Birthdays on April 28

1889 António de Oliveira Salazar

1937 Saddam Hussein

1960 Elena Kagan

1980 Bradley Wiggins

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Famous Deaths on April 28

1945 Hermann Fegelein

1945 Benito Mussolini

1957 Heinrich Bär

1999 Alf Ramsey

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