Sunday, April 28, 2019

On This Day in History

April 28, 2019

Historical Events

1611 Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, oldest existing university in Asia and largest Catholic university in the world

1770 British Captain James Cook, aboard the endeavour, lands at Botany Bay in Australia

1789 Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against its captain William Bligh in the South Pacific

1910 First night air flight by Claude Grahame-White in England

1937 1st commercial flight across Pacific operated by Pan Am

1977 Andreas Baader and members of terrorist group the Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Gang) jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly 2 years in Stuttgart, Germany

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