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2012-04-27 17:01

SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2012

Today is Saturday, April 28, the 119th day of 2012. There are 247 days left in the year.

1686 ― First volume of Isaac Newton's ``Principia" published

1770 ― Captain James Cook in Endeavor lands at Botany Bay in Australia

1914 ― W. H. Carrier patents air conditioner

1932 ― Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced

1935 ― Moscow underground opens (81-km long)

1956 ― Last French troop leave Vietnam

1967 ― Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army and stripped of boxing title

1989 ― Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money

1994 ― First multiracial election in South Africa ends (three days)

1995 ― Gas explosion in South Korean subway construction site, 103 die
  • 1. NK launches three short-range guided missiles: defense ministry
  • 2. NK fires short-range missile into sea for 2nd day
  • 3. Israeli Spike missiles deployed
  • 4. No S. Koreans confirmed to have been infected by killer ticks: govt
  • 5. Celebrities born with silver spoons
  • 6. Truck spills poisonous hydrofluoric acid
  • 7. Magnitude 4.9 quake occurs near Baengnyeong Island in Yellow Sea
  • 8. Architect of economic development Nam dies
  • 9. S. Korea deploys Israeli missiles to protect border islands
  • 10. NK defector policy needs fix
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