Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 28

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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
 * 224 – The ancient Iranian Parthian Empire fell to the Sasanids after its forces were defeated at the Battle of Hormozdgan.
 * 1611 – The University of Santo Tomas in Manila, one of the oldest existing universities in Asia and one of the world's largest Catholic universities by enrollment, was founded.
 * 1783 – Second Anglo-Mysore War: British troops surrendered the fortress of Bednore in southwestern India to French and Mysorean forces; many of the prisoners were later murdered.
 * 1887 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé (pictured) was released on the order of William I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.
 * 1910 – Frenchman Louis Paulhan landed his biplane at Manchester (pictured), having departed from London the previous day, to win the world's first long-distance air race
 * 1941 – World War II: Presaging a campaign of genocide against the Serbs of Croatia, around 190 people were massacred by members of the Ustaše movement in Gudovac.
 * 1952 – Japan and the Republic of China signed the Treaty of Taipei, officially ending the Second Sino-Japanese War seven years after fighting ended due to World War II.
 * 1971 – Scottish trade unionist Jimmy Reid condemned the capitalist "rat race" in his inaugural address as Rector of the University of Glasgow.
 * 1973 – The album The Dark Side of the Moon by the British progressive rock band Pink Floyd entered the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart, on which it spent a record 942 weeks.
 * 1988 – Aloha Airlines Flight 243 experienced explosive decompression while airborne between Hilo and Honolulu, Hawaii, with one fatality as a flight attendant was ejected from the aircraft.
 * 1999 – A 14-year-old former student in Taber, Alberta, opened fire at his high school, killing one student and wounding another in Canada's first fatal school shooting in more than two decades.
 * 2008 – The 1,388-foot-tall (423.2 m) Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago, with the world's highest residence above ground level at the time, held its grand opening.
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