WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 2010

Today is Wednesday, April 28, the 118th day of 2010. There are 247 days left in the year.

585 _ 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

1932 _ Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced

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

1956 _ Last French troop leave Vietnam

1975 _ Last Americans evacuated from Saigon

1986 _ Chernobyl, USSR, site of world's worst nuclear power plant disaster

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

1995 _ Gas explosion in South Korean metro, 103 die