THIS DAY IN HISTORY 28/04

This Day in History 28/04

APRIL 28TH

1611 – Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the oldest existing university in Asia and the largest Catholic university in the world.



1920 – Azerbaijan SSR joins USSR (1st time)



1932 – Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced



1969 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France



2001 – Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world’s first space tourist.



FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS



1908 – Oskar Schindler, Zwittau, Moravia, Austria-Hungary, Austrian businessman and subject of the novel Schindler’s Ark and the film Schindler’s List. (d. 1974)

1916 – Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (d. 1993)



1937 – Saddam Hussein, [At-Takriti], Al-Awja, President of Iraq (1979-2003)

1974 – Penélope Cruz, Alcobendas, Madrid, Spanish actress (Vanilla Sky, Waking Up in Reno)

FAMOUS DEATHS



1945 – Benito Mussolini, Fascist leader (Italy), shot after trial at 61



1992 – Francis Bacon, Irish/British abstract painter, dies at 82

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY 27/04

This Day in History 27/04

APRIL 27TH

1539 – Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (nowadays Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.



1861 – President Abe Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus



1959 – The last Canadian missionary leaves the People’s Republic of China.



1960 – 1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee)



1960 – Togo (formerly French Togo) declares independence from French adm



1961 – Sierra Leone declares independence from UK



1976 – Arabic Monetary Fund established in Abu Dhabi



1977 – Bloody riots in Soweto South Africa



1978 – Afghanistan revolution (National Day), pro-Russian military coup



1992 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.



2011 – The deadliest day of the 2011 Super outbreak of tornadoes, the largest tornado outbreak, in United States history.



FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS



1791 – Samuel Morse, Charlestown, Massachusetts, American inventor (telegraph, Morse code) and painter

1896 – Wallace Hume Carothers, inventor (nylon)



1984 – Patrick Stump, American musician (Fall Out Boy)





FAMOUS DEATHS



1695 – John Trenchard, English statesman (b. 1640)

1959 – Gordon Armstrong, inventor (baby incubator), dies



1972 – Kwame Nkrumah, president of Ghana, dies at 62

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