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Events on April 28

• 1528 After a dispute between theologians of the Reformation and the Catholic Church, the Hamburg city council turns to the Reformation. The new Hamburg Church Ordinance, drafted by Johannes Bugenhagen, enters into effect as early as May.
• 1789 Fletcher Christian and several other crew members mutiny aboard the Bounty against the commanding officer, Lieutenant William Bligh, and put him and several loyal sailors out to sea in a boat. The boat reaches the Dutch trading post of Kupang after 6 weeks, while the Bounty sails back to Tonga.
• 1902 The football club Manchester United comes into being through a renaming, after several businessmen around the new club president John Henry Davies avert the bankruptcy of the existing Newton Heath F. C. through a capital injection.
• 1921 In the World Chess Championship title match between the German Emanuel Lasker and the Cuban José Raúl Capablanca in Havana, Lasker, the title holder since 1894, gives up after 4 defeats and 10 draws.
• 1939 The German Reich announces the non-aggression pact with Poland after the demand for the annexation of the Free City of Danzig and a corridor to East Prussia has been rejected.
• 1945 Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci, who were captured the previous day during an escape attempt by partisans of the Italian Resistance, are shot in Mezzegra. On the following day, the bodies are also hanged and publicly displayed.
• 1947 Thor Heyerdahl and five crew members set off from the Peruvian port of Callao for Polynesia aboard the raft Kon-Tiki, made from balsa tree trunks. Heyerdahl wants to establish whether the islands could have been settled from South America in this way.
• 1956 Under the motto “Holiday destinations for Berlin children,” the ARD broadcasts a television lottery draw for the first time.
• 1969 A few minutes after midnight, following his defeat in the referendum on regional and Senate reform, Charles de Gaulle announces his resignation as President of the French Republic.
• 2001 The Soyuz TM-32 mission launches from Baikonur for the International Space Station (ISS). On board are commander Talghat Mussabajew, flight engineer Juri Michailowitsch Baturin and American multimillionaire Dennis Tito, the first space tourist.
• 2005 The 34.6 km long Lötschberg Base Tunnel, as part of the New Alpine Transversal (NEAT), is broken through. At this time, it is the third-longest tunnel in the world.
• 2005 Following the 2005 betting scandal, the German Football Association adopts a betting ban for football players, football officials and football referees. At the same time, referee Robert Hoyzer, who triggered the scandal, is banned for life.

Born on April 28

• 1874 Karl Kraus, Austrian writer
• 1876 Nicola Romeo, Italian engineer and entrepreneur
• 1900 Bruno Apitz, German writer
• 1900 Heinrich Müller, German police officer and SS member, head of the Gestapo
• 1930 James Baker, American politician
• 1950 Jay Leno, American showmaster
• 1960 Ian Rankin, British crime writer
• 1970 Diego Simeone, Argentine football player and coach
• 1973 Jorge Garcia, American actor
• 1981 Jessica Alba, American actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „28. April“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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