Daily Calendar for Tuesday, April 28, 2026

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Benito Mussolini (Italian dictator) – 1945
Penelope Fitzgerald (writer) – 2000
Alexander Lebed (general) – 2002
Dabbs Greer (actor) – 2007
Will Robinson (first African American basketball coach at a Division I school) – 2008
Mel Bartholomew (construction engineer and gardener known for his Square Foot Gardening method) – 2016

Maryland became the seventh state of the Union – 1788
Coal mine explosion occurred in Eccles, West Virginia – 1914
Vaccine for yellow fever announced – 1932
A six-man expedition, led by Thor Heyerdahl, sailed from Peru aboard a balsa-wood raft named Kon-Tiki on a 101 day journey that would take them across the Pacific Ocean to Polynesia – 1947
At age 98, Walter Sitch of Halifax, NS, became a great-great-great-grandfather – 1968
Charles de Gaulle, president of France, resigned – 1969
A Chorus Line closed after 6,137 performances on Broadway in New York City – 1990
The Soyuz-TM 32 launched, carrying the world’s first space tourist, Dennis Tito, to the International Space Station – 2001
Ashes of actor James Doohan, who portrayed engineer Scotty on Star Trek, and of Apollo 7 astronaut Gordon Cooper soared into space aboard a rocket – 2007
Six endangered red wolf pups were born at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, North Carolina – 2017

Coastal storm caused tremendous late season snow, 35 inches fell in Bayard, West Virginia – 1928
Six feet of snow blocked roads in Buffalo – 1958
Tornadoes swept through central and southeastern Virginia – 2008
A total of 13 inches of snow fell overnight on New York’s Adirondack Mountains and in northern Vermont – 2010
Hailstorms hit parts of Texas and Oklahoma, with a 6.4-inch hailstone falling in Hondo, Texas – 2021