On This Day
28 April
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1700 Baji Rao I, 7th Peshwa of the Maratha Empire, passed away. His son Balaji Baji Rao succeeded him.
- 1701 William Norris, an English diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1695 to 1701, met Aurangzeb at Panhala fort, Maharashtra.
- 1928 Krishnaswamy Sundarji, PVSM, Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army from 1986 to 1988, was born. He was the last former British Indian Army officer to command the Indian Army.
- 1929 Bhanu Athaiya, costume designer and painter who became the first Indian to win an Academy Award (for Gandhi), was born.
- 2018 Indian government announced electricity had reached every Indian village.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1795 Charles Sturt, explorer of Australia, was born in India. British explorer Charles Sturt is known as the "father of Australian exploration." He was the first to penetrate deep into Australia's interior from 1828 to 1845 during three hazardous expeditions.
- 1848 The last slaves in French colonies were freed.
- 1908 Oskar Schindler, German industrialist and a member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust, was born. He saved the Jews by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
- 1926 Harper Lee, American novelist, was born. Her 1960 book, To Kill a Mockingbird won a Pulitzer.
- 1937 Saddam Hussein, Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003, was born.
- 1945 Benito Mussolini, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland.
- 1986 Two days after the incident, the Soviet Union acknowledged there had been an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine.
- 2001 Dennis Tito became the first space tourist in history when a Russian rocket transported the Californian billionaire to the International Space Station.
- ⭐ Significance
- World Day for Safety and Health at Work, established by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in 2003, is observed to stress the importance of prevention of accidents and diseases at work.
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