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Day in History: April 28th - iTunes Birthday
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April 28 is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 247 days remaining.
| | 1788 - Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States. |
| | 1789 - Mutiny on the HMS Bounty. Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island. |
| | 1930 - The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas. |
| | 1932 - A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans. |
| | 1945 - Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement. |
| | 1952 - Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NATO. |
| | 1988 - Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is sucked out of Aloha Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight. |
| | 1994 - Former Central Intelligence Agency official Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia. |
| | 1996 - Whitewater scandal: President Bill Clinton gives 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense. |
| | 1997 - The 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention goes into effect, with Russia, Iraq and North Korea notable nations who had not ratified the treaty. |
| | 2001 - Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist. |
| | 2003 - Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store launches, selling 1 million songs in its first week. |
| | 2005 - The Patent Law Treaty goes into effect. |
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