TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2009

Today is Tuesday, April 28, the 118th day of 2009. There are 247 days left in the year.

1376 _ English parliament demands supervision on royal outlay

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

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

1848 _ Free last slaves in French colonies

1914 _ W. .H Carrier patents air conditioner

1932 _ Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced

1964 _ Japan joins OECD

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

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

1975 _ Last Americans evacuated from Saigon