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