04-28-2005, 05:07 AM
|
|
Registered User
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Maryland
Posts: 541,353
|
|
|
April 28th
1788 ~ Maryland became the 7th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1789 ~ Mutiny on the Bounty. Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors set adrift and rebel crew set sail for Pitcairn Island.
1906 ~ Birthday of Kurt Gödel, mathematician.
1908 ~ Birthday of Oskar Schindler, Businessman.
1937 ~ Birthday of Saddam Hussein, former leader of Iraq.
1945 ~ Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are killed by members of the Italian resistance movement while trying to flee Italy.
1947 ~ Thor Heyerdahl and five crewmates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
1952 ~ Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ended.
1969 ~ Charles de Gaulle resigned as President of France.
1990 ~ After 6,237 performances, the Broadway musical A Chorus Line closed.
__________________
Eudaimonia
|