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On April 28th …
1788 - Maryland became the 7th state in the United
States.
1789 - Fletcher Christian led the mutiny aboard the
British ship Bounty against Captain William Bligh.
1945 - Benito Mussolini was executed.
1947 - Thor Heyerdahl and five others began their
Pacific Ocean crossing on the raft, Kon-Tiki.
1967 - Boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to be
inducted into the Army.he Army.
1992 - The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture unveiled its
first “food pyramid.”
2001 - Dennis Tito became the first space tourist.
2004 - The Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal first comes
to light when graphic photos of U.S. soldiers physically
abusing and humiliating Iraqi prisoners were shown on
CBS's 60 Minutes II.
In 1935 …
President: Franklin D Roosevelt
Vice President: John N. Garner
Population: 127,250,232
Federal spending: $6.41 billion
Consumer Price Index: 13.7
Unemployment: 20.1%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.03
• Roosevelt opens second phase of New Deal in U.S.,
calling for social security, better housing, equitable
taxation, and farm assistance. |
