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