This Day in History Apr. 28

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Apr. 28

1635 Virginia Governor John Harvey accused of treason & removed from office
1788 Maryland becomes the 7th state to ratify the constitution
1789 Fletcher Christian leads Mutiny on HMS Bounty & Captain William Bligh
1818 Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on Great Lakes & Lake Champlain
1910 Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race
1914 W H Carrier patents air conditioner
1919 1st jump with Army Air Corp (rip-cord type) parachute (Les Irvin)
1932 Yellow fever nnalert for humans announced
1934 FDR signs Home Owners Loan Act
1937 1st commercial flight across the Pacific, Pan Am
1939 Hitler claims German-Polish non-attack treaty still in effect
1941 Last British troops in Greece surrenders
1942 Nightly "dim-out" begins along the East Coast
1943 German-Italian counter offensive in North-Africa
1943 US 34th Division occupies Djebel el Hara North Tunisia
1945 British commands attack Elbe & occupies Lauenburg
1945 US 5th army reaches Swiss border
1952 WWII Pacific peace treaty takes effect
1958 Vanguard TV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1961 Lieutenant Colonel Georgi Mossolov takes E-66A to 34,714 meter altitude
1965 US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966
1970 Pres. R Nixon formally authorizes US combat troops to fight communist in Cambodia
1975 Last Americans evacuated from Saigon
1983 NASA launches Goes-F
1991 Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) is launched
 

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