Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 28
This is a list of selected April 28 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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April 28: International Workers' Memorial Day
- 1192 – Third Crusade: Conrad of Montferrat, the elected King of Jerusalem, was fatally stabbed by members of the Hashshashin.
- 1789 – About 1,300 miles west of Tahiti, near Tonga, Fletcher Christian, the master's mate on board the Royal Navy ship HMAV Bounty, led a mutiny against the ship's commander William Bligh (pictured).
- 1920 – The Soviet Union established the Azerbaijan SSR after the government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic surrendered to the invading Bolsheviks.
- 1952 – The Treaty of San Francisco entered into force, ending the occupation of Japan by the former Allied Powers of World War II.
- 1969 – Charles de Gaulle, the first President of the French Fifth Republic, resigned following his defeat on a nationwide referendum.
- 2001 – Dennis Tito became the world's first fee-paying space tourist, riding the Russian Soyuz TM-32 spacecraft to the International Space Station.