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Events

• 357 (1669 years ago) Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius.
• 1253 (773 years ago) Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō for the first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
• 1796 (230 years ago) The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.
• 1937 (89 years ago) South African medical researcher Max Theiler develops the yellow fever vaccine at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City.
• 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Nine German E-boats attack US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
• 1947 (79 years ago) Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
• 1952 (74 years ago) 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.
• 1994 (32 years ago) Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving US secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.

Births

• 1758 (268 years ago) James Monroe, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th President of the United States (died 1831)
• 1889 (137 years ago) António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese economist and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Portugal (died 1970)
• 1906 (120 years ago) Kurt Gödel, Czech-American mathematician, philosopher, and academic (died 1978)
• 1926 (100 years ago) Harper Lee, American novelist (died 2016)
• 1937 (89 years ago) Saddam Hussein, Iraqi general and politician, 5th President of Iraq (died 2006)
• 1948 (78 years ago) Terry Pratchett, English journalist, author, and screenwriter (died 2015)
• 1974 (52 years ago) Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress and producer
• 1981 (45 years ago) Jessica Alba, American model and actress

Deaths

• 1813 (213 years ago) Mikhail Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (born 1745)
• 1853 (173 years ago) Ludwig Tieck, German author and poet (born 1773)
• 1903 (123 years ago) Josiah Willard Gibbs, American scientist (born 1839)
• 1945 (81 years ago) Benito Mussolini, Italian journalist, fascist dictator and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1883)
• 1992 (34 years ago) Francis Bacon, Irish painter (born 1909)
• 1999 (27 years ago) Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1921)
• 2012 (14 years ago) Matilde Camus, Spanish poet and author (born 1919)
• 2021 (5 years ago) Michael Collins, American astronaut (born 1930)

All 356 events, births and deaths of April 28