Today in History - History - April 28th

2014Craig Ferguson announces he will leave "The Late Late Show" at the end of 2014

1949Bkln, Commish Chandler suspends Durocher but he is absolved on May 3 NY fan charges Leo Durocher with assault after Giants lose 15-2 to

1993NY Islanders beat Wash Caps 4 to 1 in playoffs, Caps Dale Hunter attacks Pierre Turgeon after scoring, in hockey's worst cheap shot

1934FDR signs Home Owners Loan Act

1969Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France

1967Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title

1770Capt James Cook aboad Endeavour lands at Botany Bay in Australia

1944Stalin meets Polish/US priest S Orlemanski

1939Hitler claims German-Polish non-attack treaty still in effect

1958Vice Pres Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America

1758James Monroe, Monroe Hall Virginia, 5th US President (1817-25)

1908Oskar Schindler, Zwittau, Moravia, Austria-Hungary, Austrian businessman and subject of the novel Schindler's Ark and the film Schindler's List. (d. 1974)

1937Saddam Hussein, [At-Takriti], Al-Awja, President of Iraq (1979-2003)

1926Harper Lee, Monroeville Alabama, American author (To Kill a Mockingbird)

1974Penélope Cruz, Alcobendas, Madrid, Spanish actress (Vanilla Sky, Waking Up in Reno)

1966John Daly, Carmichael California, American golfer (1991 PGA Championship, 1995 Open Championship)

1774Chief justice John Jay (28) weds Sarah Van Brugh Livingston (17)

1968Business magnate Alan Sugar (21) weds hairdresser Ann Simons in Great Portland Street Synagogue

1979Actor and comedian John Candy (28) weds Rosemary Margaret Hobor at St. Basil's Church in Toronto, Canada

1982Professional boxer George Foreman (33) weds Andrea Skeete

1886Painter Paul Cézanne (47) weds Marie-Hortense Fiquet (36)

1903Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst (40) weds William Randolph Hearst (21) in New York City

1945Benito Mussolini, Fascist dictator of Italy, shot by communist partisans at 61

1999Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1921)