The April 28th is the 118e Jour of the Année (119e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1 to 1900

• 614 : Transfer of Renève to Autun of ashes of the queen Brunehilde. Day in the past devoted to the memory of this woman of State.
• 1253 : Nichiren Daishonin recites publicly Nam Myoho Rengué Kyo for the first time.
• 1794 : A republican Révolution bursts in Sardinia, directed by Giovanni Maria Angioy.
• 1796 : Armistice enters the France and the Sardinia overcome á Millesimo and to Mondovi
• 1816: Creation by a law of the Deposit and consignment office, to restore the credit of the State, after the financial disorders of the First Empire.
• 1862 : Battle of Mow Cumbres, with the Mexico.

20th century

• 1923 : Inauguration of the stage of Wembley to London.
• 1924 : The French Gaston Ramon presents the anti-diphtheric vaccine .
• 1945 : Benito Mussolini and its mistress Clara Petacci is carried out by Italian partisans.
• 1969: In France, Charles de Gaulle resigns of her mandate of President of the Republic.
• 1981 : With the Mali, Amadou Toumani Touré is named ordering presidential guard by Moussa Traoré.
• 1985 : Chantal Nobel, the actress of the series Châteauvallon , is seriously wounded in an car accident with the singer Sacha Distel.
• 2005 : World exit of Guild Wars

Births

• 32 : Othon, Roman Emperor
• 1442: Edward IV King of England († 1483)
• 1545: Yi Sun-sin, Korean admiral († December 16th 1598)
• 1630: Charles Cotton, English poet († 1687)
• 1686: Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor († 1721)
• 1715: Franz Sparry, type-setter († 1767)
• 1758: James Monroe, 5th President of the United States of America († 1831)
• 1819: Ezra Abbot, American specialist in the New Testament († 1884)
• 1838: Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch lawyer, prize winner of the Nobel Prize of Peace († 1913)
• 1870: Antonio Reverte, Spanish Matador († September 13rd 1903).
• 1888 : Jean Benoit-Levy, realizer and producer of French cinema († August 2nd 1959)
• 1889: António de Oliveira Salazar, Dictator and president of the Portuguese council of 1932 with 1968
• 1900: Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer († November 5th 1992)
• 1906: Pierre Boileau, French writer
• 1908: Oskar Schindler, Czechoslovakian industrialist who obtained the title of Juste among the Nations († 1974)
• 1930: Andre Halimi, French journalist
• 1937: Saddam Hussein Al-Tikriti, former president of the Iraq († December 30th 2006)
• 1941: AsMargret, American actress born in Sweden
• 1943: Jacques Dutronc, singer and actor French
• Gerard Majax, French illusisionist
• 1944: Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe, Walloon Belgian politician
• 1948: Terry Pratchett, British writer
• 1949: Jay Apt, American astronaut
• 1956: Paul Lockhart, American astronaut
• 1957: Léopold Eyharts, French spationaut
• 1960: Walter Zenga, Goalkeeper of the team of Italy of football and currently trainer.
• 1971 : Khaled Kelkal, islamist terrorist († September 29th 1995)
• 1972: Sebastien Cauet, stimulating French TV and radio
• 1973: Pauleta, is a Football or Portuguese evolving/moving at the post of center-forward to the Paris Saint-Germain. The Aigle of the Azores is the best striker of the history of the team of Portugal of football (47 goals) and is the best striker of Ligue 1 in activity (121 goals).
• 1974 : Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress
• 1981: Jessica Alba, American actress

Death

• 1076 : Sven II '' Estridsen '', king of Denmark of 1047 with 1076.

• 1498 : Henry Percy, political personality English (° C. 1449)
• 1519: Madeleine of the Tower of Auvergne, mother of Catherine de Médicis, queen of France (° 1495)
• 1614: Marian de Martinbos, religious French, 73e abbot of Jumièges.
• 1726 : Thomas Pitt, British governor of Madras (° July 5th 1653)
• 1816: Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher (° May 4th 1862)
• 1853: Ludwig Tieck, German writer (° May 31st 1773)
• 1918: Gavrilo Princip, Serb anarchist (° 1894)
• 1922: Paul Deschanel, French statesman
• 1945
• Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator (° July 29th 1883)
• Clara Petacci, Italian minister of Benito Mussolini (carried out) (° February 28th 1912)
• 1954: Leon Jouhaux, French trade unionist, Nobel Prize of Peace (° July 1st 1879)
• 1960: Anton Pannekoek, astronomer and Communist militant Dutch (° January 2nd 1873)
• 1973: Robert Buron, French politician (° January 27th 1910)
• 1977: Josef “Sepp” Herberger, trainer of football (° March 28th 1897)
• 1978: Mohammed Daoud Khan, Afghan political personality (assassinated) (° July 18th 1909)
• 1990: Thomas Crétallaz, Swiss artist
• 1992: Francis Bacon, Irish artist (° October 28th 1909)
• 1999: Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize (° May 5th 1921)
• 2002: Alexandre Lebed, soldier and Russian politician (° April 20th 1950)
• 2004: Patrick Berhault, French mountaineer (° July 19th 1957)

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

• Vital and Valerie of Milan (Ier century), husband martyrs.

Catholic saints of the day

• Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort

Orthodoxe saints

• Cyriaque de Kargopol († 1402), higoumene
• Cyrille de Tourov († 1183), bishop

See too

• April 28th in sport
• April 28th in the railroads

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