All Events

Historical Events on April 28

  • Soviet Union

    1920

    Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.

  • Exercise Tiger

    1944

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

  • Benito Mussolini

    1945

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

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    1952

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

  • Muhammad Ali

    1967

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

  • Charles de Gaulle

    1969

    Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.

  • Richard Nixon

    1970

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

  • Chernobyl disaster

    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.

  • Aldrich Ames

    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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