Today is Thursday, April 28, the 120th day of 2016. There are 246 days left in the year.
1253 — Utrecht destroyed by fire
1376 — English parliament demands supervision on royal outlay
1521 — Treaty of Worms Emperor Charles names his brother Ferdinand Arch duke of Netherlands-Austria
1550 — Powers of Dutch inquisition extends
1635 — Virginia Governor John Harvey accused of treason
1655 — English Admiral Blake beats Tunen pirate fleet
1686 — First volume of Isaac Newton’s “Principia” published
1770 — Captain James Cook in Endeavor lands at Botany Bay in Australia
1788 — Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the constitution
1789 — Fletcher Christian leads Mutiny on HMS Bounty & Captain William Bligh
1796 — Cease fire of Cherasco
1804 — 31 English ship sail Suriname river demand transition colony
1818 — Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on Great Lakes & Lake Champlain