Portal:United States/Anniversaries/April/April 28
- 1758 – James Monroe, 5th President of the United States, is born.
- 1788 – Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
- 1952 – The United States occupation of Japan ends.
- 1965 – United States troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. citizens.
- 1970 – President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia, violating a United Nations convention put in place to prevent the spread of the Vietnam War into neighboring states.
- 2001 – Millionaire Dennis Tito (pictured) becomes the world's first space tourist.
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Events
- 1788 - Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
- 1862 - American Civil War: Admiral David Farragut captures New Orleans.
- 1930 - The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.
- 1952 - Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NATO.
- 1952 - Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends.
- 1965 - United States troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops.
- 1970 - Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
- 1986 - United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean to relieve USS Coral Sea, on station across the "Line of Death" in the Gulf of Sidra off the coast of Libya. The transit began at 0300 and lasted 12 hours.
- 1987 - U.S. engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
- 1994 - Former Central Intelligence Agency official Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
- 1996 - Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
- 2001 - Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist.