Today XIV

Birthdays:

• Lionel Barrymore, actor, April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954


• Kurt Gödel, mathematician, April 28, 1906 - January 14, 1978


• Oskar Schindler, humanitarian, April 28, 1908 – October 9, 1974


• Harper Lee, author, 1926


• Ann-Margret Olsson, actress, 1941


• Jay Leno, comedian, 1950


• John Joseph Cerutti, pitcher and announcer, April 28, 1960 - October 3, 2004


• Jessica Alba, actress, 1981

RIP:

• William Henry Johnson, aka Zip the Pinhead, 1857 – April 28, 1926


• Francis Timothy McCown Durgin, aka Rory Calhoun, actor, August 8, 1922 – April 28, 1999

Also:

• Mutiny on the HMS Bounty, 1789


• The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas, 1939


• Thor Heyerdahl and five crewmates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia, 1947


• The United States occupation of Japan ends, 1952


• Expo 67 opens in Montréal, Québec, Canada, 1967


• Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France, 1969


• Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist, when he visits the International Space Station for seven days, 2001