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 |