MONDAY, APRIL 28, 2008

Today is Monday, April 28, the 119th day of 2008. There are 247 days left in the year.

0585 _ War between Lydia and Media ended by solar eclipse

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

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

1942 _ ``WWII" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll

1956 _ Last French troop leave Vietnam

1966 _ 38th Academy Awards: ``Sound of Music", Julie Christie & L Marvin win

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

1969 _ Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France

1969 _ King Crimson with Greg Lake & Ian McDonald debuts

1975 _ Last Americans evacuated from Saigon