Today is Monday, April 28, the 119th day of 2008. There are 247 days left in the year.
0585 _ War between Lydia and Media ended by solar eclipse
1686 _ First volume of Isaac Newton's ''Principia" published
1770 _ Captain James Cook in Endeavor lands at Botany Bay in Australia
1942 _ ''WWII" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll
1956 _ Last French troop leave Vietnam
1966 _ 38th Academy Awards: ''Sound of Music", Julie Christie & L Marvin win
1967 _ Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army and stripped of boxing title
1969 _ Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France
1969 _ King Crimson with Greg Lake & Ian McDonald debuts
1975 _ Last Americans evacuated from Saigon