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Notable anniversaries in history for today: April 28
- 250th: 1774 - Birth of Francis Baily describer of "Baily's Beads" during solar eclipse.
- 150th: 1874 - Birth of Sidney Toler in Warrensburg, Missouri, USA; actor (Madame X, Meeting at Midnight).
- 100th: 1924 - 119 die in Benwood, West Virginia, USA coal mine disaster.
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Kenneth David Kaunda; founder/President (Zambia, 1964-91).
- 90th: 1934 - US President Franklin Roosevelt signs Home Owners Loan Act.
- 90th: 1934 - Soccer team Blue White '34 forms.
- 90th: 1934 - Spanish government of Samper forms.
- 90th: 1934 - Detroit Tigers' Goose Goslin grounds into four straight double plays.
- 80th: 1944 - Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 US soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Barry Larkin in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; shortstop (Cincinnati Reds).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Helen Marina Lucy in Windsor, England; daughter of Prince Edward.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Mark Hager; Australian field hockey forward/captain (Olympics-4th-1988, 1996).
- 60th: 1964 - Japan joins OECO.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Sergei Stas; NHL defenseman (Team Belarus, Olympics-1998).
- 50th: 1974 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic.
- 50th: 1974 - Paul Page, actor (Girl from Havanna, Moth), dies at age 70.
- 40th: 1984 - Glen H Taylor, US Senator/vice presidential candidate (1948), dies at age 80.
- 30th: 1994 - First multi-racial election in South Africa ends.
- 30th: 1994 - Aldrich Ames, former US Central Intelligence Agency officer and wife Rosario plead guilty to spying.
- 30th: 1994 - Freddy Thielemans sworn in as mayor of Brussels, Belgium.
- 30th: 1994 - FOX airs the 100th episode of The Simpsons TV show.
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1921).
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Rory Calhoun AKA Francis McCown at age 76; actor (over 80 movies and 1,000 television episodes, The Texan, The Blue and the Grey mini-series, Capitol).
- 20th: 2004 - Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse in Iraq is revealed on the US television show 60 Minutes II.
- 15th: 2009 - Death of Ekaterina Maximova, Soviet-Russian ballerina (born 1939).
- 10th: 2014 - United States President Barack Obama's new economic sanctions against Russia go into effect, targeting companies and individuals close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
- 5th: 2019 - Victor Vescovo achieves the deepest dive of any human in history, as he reaches Challenger Deep within the Mariana Trench, at a depth of 10,928 m (35,853 ft).
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