| 357 |
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Constantius II visits Rome for the first time. |
| 1282 |
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Villagers in Palermo lead a revolt against French rule in Sicily. |
| 1635 |
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Virginia Governor John Harvey is accused of treason and removed from office. |
| 1760 |
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French forces besieging Quebec defeat the British in the second battle on the Plains of Abraham. |
| 1788 |
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Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the constitution. |
| 1789 |
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The crew of the HMS Bounty mutinies against Captain William Bligh. |
| 1818 |
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President James Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain. |
| 1856 |
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Yokut Indians repel an attack on their land by 100 would-be Indian fighters in California. |
| 1902 |
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Revolution breaks out in the Dominican Republic. |
| 1910 |
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The first night air flight is performed by Claude Grahame-White in England. |
| 1916 |
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British declare martial law throughout Ireland. |
| 1919 |
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Les Irvin makes the first jump with an Army Air Corps parachute. |
| 1920 |
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Azerbaijan joins the Soviet Union. |
| 1930 |
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The first organized night baseball game is played in Independence, Kansas. |
| 1932 |
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A yellow fever vaccine for humans is announced. |
| 1945 |
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Benito Mussolini is killed by Italian partisans. |
| 1946 |
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The Allies indict Tojo on 55 counts of war crimes |
| 1947 |
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Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl and five others set out in a balsa wood craft known as Kon Tiki to prove that Peruvian Indians could have settled in Polynesia. |
| 1953 |
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French troops evacuate northern Laos. |
| 1965 |
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The U.S. Army and Marines invade the Dominican Republic. |
| 1967 |
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Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the U.S. Army and is stripped of boxing title. |
| 1969 |
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Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France. |
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Born on April 28 |
| 1442 |
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Edward IV, king of England (1461-1470, 1471-1483), first king of the House of York. |
| 1758 |
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James Monroe, fifth President of the United States (1817-1825). |
| 1878 |
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Lionel Barrymore, American stage, screen and radio actor. |
| 1892 |
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John Jacob Niles, American folk singer and folklorist. |
| 1898 |
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William Soutar, Scottish poet. |
| 1902 |
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Johan Borgen, Norwegian novelist. |
| 1912 |
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Odette Hallowes, British secret agent. |
| 1926 |
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Harper Lee, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (To Kill a Mockingbird). |
| 1930 |
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James Baker III, Cabinet secretary for Presidents Reagan and Bush. |
| 1936 |
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Kenneth White, poet and essayist. |
| 1937 |
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Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq. |
| 1937 |
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Jean Redpath, Scottish folk singer. |
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