April 28: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1253 - Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the very first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
2. 1788 - Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
3. 1792 - France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium), beginning the French Revolutionary War.
4. 1932 - A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.
5. 1947 - Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
6. 1952 - Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends as the Treaty of San Francisco, ratified September 8, 1951, comes into force.
7. 1952 - The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei,Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
8. 1977 - The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.
9. 1986 - The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea.
10. 2001 - Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist.
11. Famous Birthdays: James Monroe (American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th President of the United States), Sylvestre François Lacroix (French mathematician), Tobias Asser (Dutch lawyer and scholar, Nobel Prize laureate), Ferruccio Lamborghini (Italian businessman, created Lamborghini), Karl Barry Sharpless (American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate)

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