357 | Constantius II visits Rome for the first time. | |
1282 | Villagers in Palermo lead a revolt against French rule in Sicily. | |
1635 | Virginia Governor John Harvey is accused of treason and removed from office. | |
1760 | French forces besieging Quebec defeat the British in the second battle on the Plains of Abraham. | |
1788 | Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the constitution. | |
1789 | The crew of the HMS Bounty mutinies against Captain William Bligh. | |
1818 | President James Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain. | |
1856 | Yokut Indians repel an attack on their land by 100 would-be Indian fighters in California. | |
1902 | Revolution breaks out in the Dominican Republic. | |
1910 | The first night air flight is performed by Claude Grahame-White in England. | |
1916 | British declare martial law throughout Ireland. | |
1919 | Les Irvin makes the first jump with an Army Air Corps parachute. | |
1920 | Azerbaijan joins the Soviet Union. | |
1930 | The first organized night baseball game is played in Independence, Kansas. | |
1932 | A yellow fever vaccine for humans is announced. | |
1945 | Benito Mussolini is killed by Italian partisans. | |
1946 | The Allies indict Tojo on 55 counts of war crimes | |
1947 | 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 | French troops evacuate northern Laos. | |
1965 | The U.S. Army and Marines invade the Dominican Republic. | |
1967 | Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the U.S. Army and is stripped of boxing title. | |
1969 | Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France. |
What is going on with the East Alton Rotary Club? We will cover it here, along with all sorts of other interesting and off-kilter stuff that will inform, enlighten and amuse you.
Sunday, April 28, 2013
TODAY IN HISTORY
APRIL 28
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