On This Day:
Monday April 28, 2014 This is the 118th day of the year, with 247 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: ZIP code The "ZIP" in ZIP Code stands for the Zone Improvement Plan. In 1963, with a dramatic increase in mail volume, the United States Post Office Department (now the United States Postal Service) introduced a five-digit code to facilitate the sorting and delivery of mail by taking advantage of new electronic machines. The first number in the ZIP Code represents a general geographic area of the nation. The second and third numbers represent regional areas. The fourth and fifth numbers identify specific post office locations or postal zones. In 1983, with the introduction of even more efficient mail sorting equipment, a new nine-digit code called the ZIP+4 Code was introduced. The new code consisted of the original five digits followed by a hyphen and four more digits. The sixth and seventh numbers identify a delivery sector, which may consist of several blocks, a group of streets, a group of post office boxes, several office buildings, a single high-rise office building, a large apa rtment building, or a small geographic area. The eighth and ninth numbers identify a delivery segment, which might be one floor of an office building, one side of a street between intersecting streets, specific departments in a firm, or a group of post office boxes.
Holidays Feast day of St. Louis de Montfort, St. Vitalis, St. Peter Mary Chanel, St. Cyril of Turov, St. Valeria, St. Pollio, Saints Theodora and Didymus, St. Pamphilus of Sulmona, and St. Cronan Roscrea.
Afghanistan: Islamic State's Victory Day (1992).
Events 1788 - Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States of America.
1789 - The mutiny on the HMS Bounty occurred, as Fletcher Christian and the crew of the British ship set Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift in a small open boat in the South Pacific.
1896 - The Addressograph was patented by J.S. Duncan of Sioux City, Iowa.
1919 - The League of Nations was founded.
1932 - A vaccine against yellow fever was announced.
1945 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were executed as they attempted to flee the country.
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.
1952 - The war with Japan officially ended as a treaty that had been signed by the United States and 47 other nations took effect.
1967 - Muhammad Ali refused induction into the U.S. Army and was stripped of his boxing title.
1969 - French President Charles de Gaulle resigned.
1987 - For the first time, a compact disc of an album was released before its vinyl counterpart: "The Art of Excellence" by Tony Bennett.
1989 - The Occupational Safety and Health Act was passed.
1990 - The musical "A Chorus Line" closed after 6137 performances on Broadway.
1994 - Northwestern University announced the discovery of the gene that controls the "biological clock" (circadian rhythm).
2001 - A Russian rocket took off with the first space tourist, California businessman Dennis Tito, taking him and two cosmonauts to the International Space Station.
Births 1442 - Edward IV, king of England (1461-1470, 1471-1483), first king of the House of York.
1758 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States of America (1817-1825).
1878 - Lionel Barrymore, American actor.
1886 - Erich Salomon, German photographer, founder of photojournalism.
1916 - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian car manufacturer.
1950 - Jay Leno, American comedian, TV talk show host.
Deaths 1918 - Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian revolutionary assassin who caused World War I by killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife.
1945 - Benito Mussolini, Italian prime minister and fascist dictator.
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