On This Day:
Tuesday April 28, 2015 This is the 118th day of the year, with 247 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: civil engineering The first civil engineering course at a college was given in 1819 at Norwich University in Vermont. The first civil engineer would have been the first person to have constructed a road, canal, lock, bridge, or other architectural form. That would have been a person living thousands of years ago, if not longer!
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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