28 Aprile

The **28t o Aprile** is the 118t day o the year (119t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 247 days ti come.

## Events

* 1788 - Maryland becomes the 7t state o the Unitit States.
* 1789 - Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on the "HMS Bounty" in the Sooth Paceefic Ocean.
* 1877 - Stamford Bridge, later hame o Chelsea F.C., opens.
* 1903 - A yirdquauk in Turkey kills 2,200 fowk.
* 1920 - Azerbaijan is taken ower bi Soviet Roushie.
* 1923 - Wembley Stadium in Lunnon opens.
* 1945 - Benito Mussolini an Clara Petacci are executit bi Partisans.
* 1945 - Warld War II: Augsburg surrenders tae Unitit States troops.
* 1947 - Thor Heyerdahl stairts his "Kon-Tiki" expedeetion frae Callao, Peru.
* 1952 - The Unitit States' post-Warld War II occupation o Japan offeecially ends.
* 1969 - Charles de Gaulle resigns as Preses o Fraunce.
* 1986 - The Soviet Union admits tae the Chernobyl disaster.
* 1996 - Martin Bryant shuits an kills 35 fowk in a mass shuitin in Tasmanie.
* 2007 - Gretna F.C. is promotit tae the Scots Premier League; the team folds efter feenancial problems the follaein year.
* 2008 - A train collision in Shandong, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, kills 72 fowk.
* 2010 - Then-UK Prime meenister Gordon Brown apologises efter bein cocht on microfone referrin tae a voter as a "bigotit wumman".
* 2013 - Enrico Letta becomes Prime meenister o Italy.
* 2018 - Brechin City F.C. becomes the first Scots fitbaa team syne 1892 tae finish an entire league saison withoot a win (4 draws an 32 defeats oot o 36 gemmes), wi relegation frae the Scottish Championship.
* 2019 - Spain haulds a general election: Prime meenister Pedro Sanchez's Socialists are the lairgest pairty wi 29%; The Vox Pairty becomes the first far-richt pairty syne the daith o Francisco Franco tae enter the Spaingie pairlament.

## Births

* 32 - Otho, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
* 1442 - Edward IV o Ingland (d. 1483)
* 1742 - Henry Dundas, 1st Viscoont Melville, Scots politeecian (d. 1811) 
* 1758 - James Monroe, 5t Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1826)
* 1761 - Marie Harel, French cheesemaker (d. 1844)
* 1798 - Duncan Forbes, Scots linguist (d. 1868)
* 1831 - Peter Tait, Scots pheesicist (d. 1901)
* 1838 - Tobias Asser, Dutch lawyer (d. 1913)
* 1855 - John McConnell Black, Scots botanist (d. 1951)
* 1878 - Lionel Barrymore, American actor (d. 1954)
* 1889 - Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese poleetical leader (d. 1970)
* 1906 - Kurt Gödel, Austrian-American mathematician (d. 1978)
* 1908 - Oskar Schindler, German businessman an humanitarian (d. 1974)
* 1926 - Harper Lee, American writer (d. 2016)
* 1930 - James Baker, 61nt Unitit States Secretar o State
* 1937 - Jean Redpath, Scots sangster (d. 2014)
* 1937 - John White, Scots fitbawer (d. 1964)
* 1937 - Saddam Hussein, Dictator o Iraq (d. 2006)
* 1948 - Terry Pratchett, Inglis writer (d. 2015)
* 1958 - Kenny MacAskill, Scots politeecian
* 1960 - Ian Rankin, Scots writer
* 1970 - Diego Simeone, Argentine fitbawer
* 1973 - Pauleta, Portuguese fitbawer
* 1974 - Penélope Cruz, Spaingie actress 
* 1980 - Bradley Wiggins, Inglis cyclist
* 1981 - Jessica Alba, American actress
* 1987 - Ryan Conroy, Scots fitbawer
* 1988 - Juan Mata, Spainyie fitbawer

## Daiths
* 1842 - Charles Bell, Scots surgeon, anatomist, pheesiologist, neurologist an airtistic theologian (b. 1774)
* 1918 - Gavrilo Princip, assassin o Airchduke Franz Ferdinand o Austrick (b. 1894)
* 1945 - Benito Mussolini, Dictator o Italy (b. 1883)
* 1945 - Clara Petacci, mistress tae Benito Mussolini (b. 1912)
* 1947 - Bob Donaldson, Scots fitbawer (b. 1868)
* 1977 - Sepp Herberger, German fitbawer an manager (b. 1897)
* 1992 - Francis Bacon, Erse airtist (b. 1909)
* 1999 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American pheesicist (b. 1921)
* 2011 - Willie O'Neill, Scots fitbawer (b. 1940)
* 2018 - Alfie Evans, Inglis bairn in parental richts case (b. 2016)
* 2019 - Richard Lugar, American politeecian (b. 1932)

## Halidays

* Wirkers' Memorial Day
* Naitional Heroes' Day (Barbados)
* Naitional Day (Sardinie)