Quick glance of 28 April in the pages of History

April 28: Here are the major events that occurred on 28 April….

• 28 April, 1701: John Norris of Britain met Aurangjeb at Parnela in South India.
• 28 April, 1740: Baji Rao I aka Thorle BajiRao Peshwa passed away at Raverkhedi near the banks of the Narmada river near Khargon and his son Balaji Baji Rao was placed on his father’s throne as the Peshwa.
• 28 April, 1848: Utkal Gourab Madhusudan Das was born in Calcutta district in Orissa.

• 28 April, 1908: Leela Majumdar, Bengali author, was born
• 28 April, 1937: Manmohan Desai, Indian producer and director, was born
• 28 April, 1937: Saddam Hussein, Iraqi politician, 5th President of Iraq was born.
• 28 April, 1943: Netaji Subash Chandra Bose aligned the Japanese-German submarine at Medagaskar.
• 28 April, 1945: Deposed dictator Benito Mussolini is executed

• 28 April, 1966: Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian politician, passed away
• 28 April, 1967: Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses US Army induction
• 28 April, 1969: Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France

• 28 April, 1986: Malayalam film `Chidambaram’ directed by G. Aravindan wins best feature film award and Shyam Benegal bags the Best Director award for the Hindi film ‘Trikal’.
• 28 April, 1993: Troops storm police complex in Srinagar and free officials from the rebelling 2000 policemen.
• 28 April, 1994: Former CIA officer Aldrich Ames admits he forwarded U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union. Ames was sentenced to life imprisonment for his activities which amounted to one of the most damaging spy cases in U.S. history.

• 28 April, 2001: Dennis Tito becomes the first space tourist in history. A Russian rocket transported the Californian billionaire to the International Space Station (ISS).
• 28 April, 2004: Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal photos revealed. The images aired in a 60 Minutes II report showed gross human rights violations, including torture and murder, committed by U.S. soldiers and CIA personnel in the Baghdad prison.
• 28 April, 2004: Shankarrao Chavan, 4th Chief Minister of Maharashtra, died