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744

Sicilian Vespers

744 years ago

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1937

Saddam Hussein

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AD 32 · 1994 yrs

Otho

Marcus Salvius Otho (28 April 32 – 16 April 69) was Roman emperor, ruling for three months from 15 January to 16 April 69. He was the second emperor of the Year of the Four Emperors.

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RoyaltyDied aged 36

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1442 · 584 yrs

Edward IV of England

Edward IV (28 April 1442 – 9 April 1483) was King of England from 4 March 1461 to 3 October 1470, then again from 11 April 1471 until he died in 1483.

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RoyaltyDied aged 40

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1545 · 481 yrs

Yi Sun-sin

Yi Sun-sin (Korean: 이순신; Hanja: 李舜臣; Korean pronunciation:; April 28, 1545 – December 16, 1598) was a Korean admiral and military general known for his victories against the Japanese navy during the Imjin War in the Joseon period.

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MilitaryDied aged 53

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1758 · 268 yrs

James Monroe

James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was a Founding Father and the fifth president of the United States, serving from 1817 to 1825. He was the last Founding Father to serve as president, as well as the last president of the Virginia dynasty.

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PoliticsDied aged 73

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1838 · 188 yrs

Tobias Asser

Tobias Michael Carel Asser (Dutch:; 28 April 1838 – 29 July 1913) was a Dutch lawyer and legal scholar.

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LawDied aged 75

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1878 · 148 yrs

Lionel Barrymore

Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blyth; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul (1931) and is known to modern audiences for the role of villainous Mr.

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1889 · 137 yrs

António de Oliveira Salazar

António de Oliveira Salazar (28 April 1889 – 27 July 1970) was a Portuguese dictator, academic, and economist who served as the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968.

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PoliticsWould be 137

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1900 · 126 yrs

Jan Hendrik Oort

Jan Hendrik Oort ( or; 28 April 1900 – 5 November 1992) was a Dutch astronomer who made significant contributions to the understanding of the Milky Way and who was a pioneer in the field of radio astronomy.

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ScienceWould be 126

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1906 · 120 yrs

Kurt Gödel

Kurt Friedrich Gödel ( GUR-dəl; German:; April 28, 1906 – January 14, 1978) was a logician, mathematician, cosmologist, and philosopher.

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ScienceWould be 120

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1908 · 118 yrs

Oskar Schindler

Oskar Schindler (German:; 28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was a German industrialist and humanitarian who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in German-occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

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BusinessWould be 118

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1916 · 110 yrs

Ferruccio Lamborghini

Ferruccio Lamborghini ( LAM-bər-GHEE-nee, Italian:; 28 April 1916 – 20 February 1993) was an Italian automobile designer and industrialist who created Lamborghini Trattori in 1948 and Automobili Lamborghini in 1964, a maker of high-end sports cars in Sant'Agata Bolognese.

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TechnologyWould be 110

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1924 · 102 yrs

Kenneth Kaunda

Kenneth Kaunda (28 April 1924 – 17 June 2021), also known as KK, was a Zambian politician who served as the first president of Zambia from 1964 to 1991.

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PoliticsWould be 102

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1853 · 173 yrs

Ludwig Tieck

Johann Ludwig Tieck (German:; 31 May 1773 – 28 April 1853) was a German poet, fiction writer, translator, and critic. He was one of the founding fathers of the Romantic movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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LiteratureDied aged 79

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1889 · 137 yrs

Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin (Russian: Михаи́л Евгра́фович Салтыко́в-Щедри́н, IPA:; 27 January 1826 – 10 May 1889), born Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov and known during his lifetime by the pen name Nikolai Shchedrin (Russian: Николай Щедрин), was a major Russian writer and satirist of the 19th century, known…

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LiteratureDied aged 63

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1903 · 123 yrs

Josiah Willard Gibbs

Josiah Willard Gibbs (February 11, 1839 – April 28, 1903) was an American mechanical engineer and scientist who made fundamental theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics.

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ScienceDied aged 64

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1918 · 108 yrs

Gavrilo Princip

Gavrilo Princip (Serbian Cyrillic: Гаврило Принцип, pronounced; 25 July 1894 – 28 April 1918) was a Bosnian Serb student who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.

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1922 · 104 yrs

Paul Deschanel

Paul Eugène Louis Deschanel (French:; 13 February 1855 – 28 April 1922) was a French politician who served as President of France from 18 February to 21 September 1920. Seven months into his presidency, he was ousted due to mental illness and was succeeded by his prime minister, Alexandre Millerand.

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PoliticsDied aged 67

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1945 · 81 yrs

Benito Mussolini

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was a fascist dictator who was the prime minister of Italy from 1922 until his deposition in 1943. Known as Il Duce during his rule, he established a totalitarian dictatorship led by the National Fascist Party (PNF) in the Kingdom of Italy.

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PoliticsWould be 143

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1973 · 53 yrs

Jacques Maritain

Jacques Maritain (French:; 18 November 1882 – 28 April 1973) was a French Catholic philosopher and theologian. An author of more than 60 books, he helped to revive Thomas Aquinas for modern times, and was influential in the development and drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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1978 · 48 yrs

Mohammed Daoud Khan

Mohammad Daoud Khan (18 July 1909 – 28 April 1978), also romanized as Daud Khan or Dawood Khan, was an Afghan military officer and politician who served as prime minister of Afghanistan from 1953 to 1963 and, as leader of the 1973 Afghan coup d'état which overthrew the monarchy, served as the first president of…

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PoliticsWould be 117

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1992 · 34 yrs

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery.

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1999 · 27 yrs

Arthur Leonard Schawlow

Arthur Leonard Schawlow (May 5, 1921 – April 28, 1999) was an American physicist who, along with Charles Townes, developed the theoretical basis for laser science. His central insight was the use of two mirrors as the resonant cavity to take maser action from microwaves to visible wavelengths.

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2012 · 14 yrs

Matilde Camus

Aurora Matilde Gómez Camus (26 September 1919 – 28 April 2012) was a Spanish poet from Cantabria who also wrote non-fiction.

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LiteratureWould be 107

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2021 · 5 yrs

Michael Collins

Michael Collins (October 31, 1930 – April 28, 2021) was an American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 command module Columbia around the Moon in 1969 while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, made the first crewed landing on the surface. He was also a test pilot and major general in the U.S.

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SpaceWould be 95

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1282 · 744 yrs

Sicilian Vespers

The Sicilian Vespers (Italian: Vespri siciliani; Sicilian: Vespiri siciliani) was a successful rebellion on the island of Sicily that broke out at Easter 1282 against the rule of the French-born king Charles I of Anjou.

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History

1789 · 237 yrs

Mutiny on the Bounty

The Mutiny on the Bounty occurred in the Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, seized control of the Royal Navy merchant ship HMS Bounty from its captain, Lieutenant William Bligh, and set him and 18 loyalists adrift in the ship's open launch.

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History

2019 · 7 yrs

2019 Azerbaijan Grand Prix

The 2019 Azerbaijan Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 SOCAR Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2019) was a Formula One motor race that took place on 28 April 2019 at the Baku City Circuit in Baku, Azerbaijan.

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Sports

2025 · 1 yrs

2025 Iberian Peninsula blackout

On Monday, 28 April 2025, at 12:33 CEST (11:33 WEST; 10:33 UTC), a major power blackout occurred across the Iberian Peninsula affecting mainland Portugal and peninsular Spain, where electric power was interrupted for about ten hours in most of the Peninsula and longer in some areas.

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History

2025 · 1 yrs

2025 Canadian federal election

The 2025 Canadian federal election was held on April 28, 2025, to elect members to the House of Commons of the 45th Canadian Parliament. Governor General Mary Simon dropped the writs of election on March 23, 2025, after Prime Minister Mark Carney advised her to dissolve Parliament.

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