April 28 is:
National Blueberry Pie Day
International Astronomy Day
Great Poetry Reading Day
Eeyore’s Birthday – (Eeyore is a character in the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A. A. Milne. He is generally characterized as a pessimistic, gloomy, depressed, anhedonic [not able to feel pleasure], old grey stuffed donkey who is a friend of the title character, Winnie-the-Pooh.)
Kiss Your Mate Day As if that’s not a good idea EVERY DAY!
Birthday of James Monroe 1758, fifth president of the United States (1809-1817). In 1776, during the Battle of Trenton, a bullet grazed the left side of Monroe’s chest, hitting his shoulder and injuring the axillary artery. Monroe lost a lot of blood, but a doctor stepped in and saved his life by putting his index finger into the wound to stop the bleeding. Surgeons could not find the bullet, so Monroe lived with the bullet for the rest of his life. He died on July 4, 1831, the third ex-president to die on July 4th.
Maryland Admission day on April 28, 1788, seventh state
- Capital: Annapolis
- Nickname: Old Line State/Free State
- Bird: Baltimore Oriole
- Flower: Black-eyed Susan
- Tree: White Oak
- Motto: Manly deeds; womanly words
See our page on Maryland for more interesting facts and trivia about Maryland.
April 28, 1789, Mutiny on the ship Bounty in the Pacific Ocean, led by Fletcher Christian. Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then set sail for Pitcairn Island.
The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas on April 28, 1930.
A vaccine for yellow fever was announced for use on humans in 1932.
On April 28, 1945, Benito Mussolini was executed by Italian partisans.
April 28, 1947 – In Peru, Thor Heyerdahl starts his Kon-Tiki expedition aimed at proving his theory that the Polynesian settlers on the Pacific Ocean’s islands came from South America.