Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 28
- 1789 - Fletcher Christian led a mutiny aboard HMAV Bounty against Commander William Bligh.
- 1952 - Occupied Japan: Japan was once again an independent state, when the Treaty of San Francisco entered into force.
- 1969 - Charles de Gaulle, the first President of the French Fifth Republic, resigned.
- 1996 - A spree shooter in the Port Arthur Massacre killed 35 people, and seriously injuried 37 in Tasmania, Australia.
- 2001 - Dennis Tito became the world's first fee-paying space tourist, riding the Soyuz TM-32 spacecraft to the International Space Station.