The Phenomenon of April 28: A Day Filled with Surprises and Celebrations Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1788  Maryland is recorded as becoming 7th state to ratify constitution.   

1789  Mutiny on HMS Bounty   

1789  Mutiny on the Bounty   

1789  Fletcher Christian leads Mutiny on HMS Bounty and Capt William Bligh.   

1795  Charles Sturt, England, explorer (Australia)   

1796  Cease fire of Cherasco   

1799  Francois Giroust, composer, dies at 62   

1804  31 English ship sail Suriname river demand transition colony   

1804  Hans Gram, composer, dies at 49.   

1809  Conradus Leemans, Dutch archaeologist.   

1810  Daniel Ullmann, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892   

1812  Daniel Henry Rucker, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1910   

1815  Andrew Jackson Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1897   

1818  Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on Great Lakes and Lake Champlain   

1825  James Winning McMillan, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)   

1826  Alexander Stadtfeld, composer   

1829  Dutch parliament accepts new press laws   

1838  Tobias M Carel Asser, Holland, advocate of world law (Nobel 1911).   

1842  Louis PMFG of Orleans, earl of Brazil (1870-89).   

1843  William Wallace, Scottish mathematician (rights of Wallace), dies   

1846  Johann E Backlund, Swedish astronomer (planets/asteroids)   

1847  George B Vashon is recorded as becoming 1st black to enter NY State Bar   

1848  Free last slaves in French colonies.   

1848  Ludvig Schytte, composer   

1853  Ludwig Tieck, writer, dies at 79.   

1855  inaugural veterinary college in US incorporated in Boston   

1855  1st veterinary college in US incorporated in Boston   

1864  William F A Ellison, Irish clergyman/director (Armagh Observatory).   

1865  Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "L'Africaine," premieres in Paris.   

1870  Hermann Suter, composer   

1873  Harold Bauer, English/US pianist (Beethoven-Association).   

1873  A Manzoni, writer, dies at 88.   

1874  Karl Kraus, writer   

1876  Frank Cavanagh, one of football's coaching greats.   

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