28 APRIL

1897 - Leader of the Philippine revolutionary movement against Spanish colonial rule Gat Andres Bonifacio, along with some 20 Katipuneros, is captured by men of Capt. Emilio Aguinaldo whose  camp has earlier moved to seize the Katipunan leadership from the Supremo; within two weeks after being overcome and seized in barrio Limbon, near Indang, Cavite, Bonifacio would be murdered by execution on Aguinaldo's orders in the latter's provincial turf in what future Prime Minister Apolinario Mabini would describe as "the first victory of personal ambition over true patriotism."

1945 - Benito Mussollini, dictator of Italy, is shot dead along with his mistress Clara Petacci by Italian partisans who have captured the couple while attempting to flee to Switzerland; the bodies of Mussolini and Petacci will be mutilated in what the partisans' leadership will describe as "necessary conclusion to a phase of history which has left Italy in a state of material and moral ruin". 

1947 - A six-man expedition sailed from Peru on a 101-day journey across the Pacific Ocean to Polynesia aboard a balsa wood raft named the Kon-Tiki; the 4,000-mile drift lasting nearly 15 weeks constitutes a successful experimental expedition to test the theory of its leader, ethnologist Thor Heyerdahl, that the Pacific islands were originally settled by migrating peoples from prehistoric America.

2001 - California billionaire businessman Dennis Tito becomes the first space tourist as he sets off from Kazakhstan at 1338 local time (0838 GMT) for an eight-day holiday aboard the International Space Station; the trip will be marked by misunderstanding by the United States and Russia when Mr. Tito turned to the latter after NASA turned down his hefty space trip proposal on the grounds that he is not a trained astronaut.