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This day in history

by Halei Lamb | April 28, 2017 4:14 pm

Last Updated: April 28, 2017 at 4:16 pm

• 1788

  Maryland became the 7th state in the United States.

• 1789

  Fletcher Christian led the mutiny aboard the British ship Bounty against Captain William Bligh.

• 1945

  Benito Mussolini was executed.

• 1947

  Thor Heyerdahl and five others began their Pacific Ocean crossing on the raft, Kon-Tiki.

• 1967

  Boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the Army.

• 1992

  The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture unveiled its first “food pyramid.”

• 2001

  Dennis Tito became the first space tourist.