Daily Calendar for April 28th, 2021

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1750s

• Born 1758: James Monroe (5th U.S. president)

1900s

• Born 1908: Oskar Schindler (businessman)

• Born 1909: Ethel Catherwood (1928 Olympic gold-medal winner for high jump)

1910s

• 1914: Coal mine explosion occurred in Eccles, West Virginia

1920s

• Born 1926: Harper Lee (author)

• Born 1928: Eugene Shoemaker (American astrogeologist)

1930s

• 1932: Vaccine for yellow fever announced

1940s

• Born 1941: Ann-Margret (actress)

• Died 1945: Benito Mussolini (Italian dictator)

• 1947: 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

• Born 1949: Paul Guilfoyle (actor)

1950s

• Born 1950: Jay Leno (talk show host)

1960s

• 1968: At age 98, Walter Sitch of Halifax, NS, became a great-great-great-grandfather

• 1969: Charles de Gaulle, president of France, resigned

1970s

• Born 1974: Penelope Cruz (actress)

1980s

• Born 1981: Jessica Alba (actress)

1990s

• 1990: A Chorus Line closed after 6,137 performances on Broadway in New York City

2000s

• Died 2000: Penelope Fitzgerald (writer)

• 2001: The Soyuz-TM 32 launched, carrying the world's first space tourist, Dennis Tito, to the International Space Station

• Died 2002: Alexander Lebed (general)

• 2007: 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

• Died 2007: Dabbs Greer (actor)

• Died 2008: Will Robinson (first African American basketball coach at a Division I school)

2010s

• Died 2016: Mel Bartholomew (construction engineer and gardener known for his Square Foot Gardening method)

• 2017: Six endangered red wolf pups were born at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, North Carolina