April 28 in history — What Happened Today in History

Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to take part in the Cambodian campaign.

Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.

Vietnam War: Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses his induction into the United States Army and is subsequently stripped of his championship and license.

United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate US Army troops.

Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO in order to campaign in the 1952 United States presidential election.

The Treaty of San Francisco comes into effect, restoring Japanese sovereignty and ending its state of war with most of the Allies of World War II.

The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.

The Hukbalahap are accused of assassinating former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, while she is en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and ten others are also killed.

Igor Stravinsky conducts the premiere of his American ballet, Orpheus at the New York City Center.

Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.

Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are shot dead by Walter Audisio, a member of the Italian resistance movement.

The Holocaust: Nazi Germany carries out its final use of gas chambers to execute 33 Upper Austrian socialist and communist leaders in Mauthausen concentration camp.

World War II: Nine German E-boats attack US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.

The Ustaše massacre nearly 200 Serbs in the village of Gudovac, the first massacre of their genocidal campaign against Serbs of the Independent State of Croatia.

South African medical researcher Max Theiler develops the yellow fever vaccine at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City.

The Independence Producers host the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas.

Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.

The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic is founded.

Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in the United Kingdom.

A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of Wilhelm I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.

Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.

Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the first transcontinental railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.

The sailing clipper ship Pomona is wrecked on the coast of Ireland with the loss of 424 of the 448 passengers and crew aboard.

The Bawani Imli massacre, where 52 Indian freedom fighters are hanged to death on a tamarind tree by British colonial forces.

The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.

Sardinians, headed by Giovanni Maria Angioy, start a revolution against the Savoy domination, expelling Viceroy Balbiano and his officials from Cagliari, the capital and largest city of the island.

France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.

The Mutiny on the Bounty occurs, with the ship's captain, Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors, set adrift, and the rebel crew setting sail for Tahiti. Eventually the majority of rebels sail for Pitcairn Island.

Matt Chapman, American baseball player

Eva Samková, Czech snowboarder

Blake Bortles, American football player

DeMarcus Lawrence, American football player

Emil Salomonsson, Swedish footballer

Kim Sung-kyu, South Korean singer

Jonathan Biabiany, French footballer

Juan Mata, Spanish footballer

Daequan Cook, American basketball player

Drew Gulak, American wrestler

Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Indian actress and model

Bradley Johnson, English footballer

Zoran Tošić, Serbian footballer

William Honan, American journalist and author (born 1930)

Dennis Kamakahi, American guitarist and composer (born 1953)

Edgar Laprade, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1919)

Jack Ramsay, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (born 1925)

Idris Sardi, Indonesian violinist and composer (born 1938)

Frederic Schwartz, American architect, co-designed Empty Sky (born 1951)

Ryan Tandy, Australian rugby player (born 1981)

Brad Lesley, American baseball player (born 1958)

Fredrick McKissack, American author (born 1939)

John C. Reynolds, American computer scientist and academic (born 1935)

Jack Shea, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928)

János Starker, Hungarian-American cellist and educator (born 1924)

Paulo Vanzolini, Brazilian singer-songwriter and zoologist (born 1924)