28APR11

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28APR11

Births for April 28

• 1758 James Monroe, Westmoreland Va, (D-R) 5th pres (1817-25)
• 1906 Kurt Godel, Austria, mathematician (Incompleteness Theorem)
• 1937 Saddam Hussein (At-Takriti), president of Iraq (1979-2003)
• 1950 Jay Leno, New Rochelle, comedian/talk show host (Tonight Show)
• 1958 Michelle Pfeiffer, Midway City Calif

Passings for April 28

• 1945 Bernito Mussolini, Fascist leader & mistress captured, tried, & shot

Special events for April 28

• 1686 1st volume of Isaac Newton's "Principia" published
• 1789 Mutiny on HMS Bounty
• 1910 1st night air flight (Claude Grahame-White, England)
• 1937 1st commercial flight across Pacific, Pan Am
• 1945 US 5th army reaches Swiss border
• 1956 Last French troop leave Vietnam
• 1965 US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966
• 1974 Last Americans evacuated from Saigon
• 1986 Chernobyl, USSR site of world's worst nuclear power plant disaster

Songs for date April 28

• 04/28/73 --- My Love (McCartney, Paul)
• 04/28/79 --- Hot Stuff (Summer, Donna)
• 04/28/79 --- Logical Song, The (Supertramp)
• 04/28/84 --- Reflex, The (Duran Duran)
• 04/28/84 --- Heart Of Rock & Roll, The (Lewis, Huey & The News)
• 04/28/90 --- U Can't Touch This (Hammer, M.C.)