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This is a list of selected April 28 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
Heroes' Day in Barbados stub
1192Third Crusade: Conrad of Montferrat, the elected King of Jerusalem, was fatally stabbed by members of the Hashshashin. needs more footnotes
1944World War II: During Exercise Tiger, a large-scale rehearsal for the invasion of Normandy, German S-boats attacked an Allied convoy, killing 946 American servicemen. refimprove section
1952 – The Treaty of San Francisco entered into force, ending the Occupation of Japan by the former Allied Powers of World War II. multiple issues
1969Charles de Gaulle, the first President of the French Fifth Republic, resigned following his defeat on a nationwide referendum. appears on January 20
1978Mohammed Daoud Khan, the first president of Afghanistan, was overthrown and assassinated in a coup d'état by pro-communist supporters. Khan: refimprove section; Revolution: refimprove section
1996 – A spree shooter in the Port Arthur massacre killed 35 people, and seriously injured 37 in Tasmania, leading to strict gun laws in Australia. lead too short
Terry Pratchett |b|1948 refimprove sections
; Sa die de sa Sardigna in Sardinia, Italy Undercited
* 2001 – American entrepreneur Dennis Tito boarded the Russian spacecraft Soyuz TM-32 to the International Space Station, becoming the world's first fee-paying space tourist. A number of tags in the spaceflight section
* 1975 – Chief of the South Vietnamese army Cao Văn Viên fled the country as the North Vietnamese closed in on Saigon. Article states that his actions are unclear and gives two versions of events
* 1949 – Former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, her daughter, and ten others were assassinated by the military arm of the Philippine Communist Party. Too much uncited

Eligible

Rhys ap Gruffydd |d|1197| Shajar al-Durr |d|1257| James Monroe |b|1758| Tobias Asser |b|1838| Hertha Ayrton |b|1854| Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon |d|1881| Tristan Tzara |b|1896| Josiah Willard Gibbs |d|1903| Oskar Schindler |b|1908| Hermann Fegelein |d|1945| Elena Kagan |b|1960|Penélope Cruz |b|1974| Bradley Wiggins |b|1980| David Freese |b|1983| Xiaxue|d|1984| Alf Ramsey |d|1999

Notes

April 28: Workers' Memorial Day

Mounted police maintaining order at the 1923 FA Cup final
Mounted police maintaining order at the 1923 FA Cup final
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