ON APRIL 28 ...

In 1758 James Monroe, the fifth U.S. President, was born in Monroe Hall, Va.

In 1788 Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

In 1789 there was a mutiny on the HMS Bounty as the crew of the British ship set Capt. William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift in a launch in the South Pacific.

In 1947 anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl and five other men left Peru on what would be a 101-day expedition to Polynesia aboard the balsa wood Kon-Tiki to prove his theory that early Polynesians could have arrived from Peru in primitive boats.

In 1952 war with Japan officially ended as a treaty that had been signed by the United States and 47 other nations took effect.

In 1967 heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the Army, the same day Gen. William Westmoreland told Congress the U.S. “would prevail in Vietnam.”

In 1969 French President Charles de Gaulle resigned.

In 1988 a flight attendant was killed and 61 people were injured when part of the roof of an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 peeled back during a flight from Hilo to Honolulu.

In 1990 the musical “A Chorus Line” closed after 6,137 performances on Broadway.

In 1992 the Agriculture Department unveiled its pyramid-shaped recommended-diet chart that had cost nearly $1 million to develop.

In 1993 the first “Take Our Daughters to Work Day” was held in an attempt to boost the self-esteem of girls by having them visit a parent’s place of work.

In 1995 in Taegu, South Korea, a gas line exploded in the middle of an intersection crowded with morning traffic, killing 101 people.

In 1999 in a sharp repudiation of President Bill Clinton’s policies, the House rejected, on a tie vote of 213-213, a measure expressing support for NATO’s five-week-old air campaign against Yugoslavia; the House also voted 249-180 to limit the president’s authority to use ground forces in Yugoslavia.

In 2001 California businessman Dennis Tito became the first space tourist when he joined a Russian crew aboard a craft launched by Russia, to which he had paid $20 million to be part of the mission to the orbiting International Space Station.

In 2004 first photos of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal were shown on CBS’ “60 Minutes II.”

In 2005 a military jury at Fort Bragg, N.C., sentenced Sgt. Hasan Akbar to death for the 2003 murders of two officers in Kuwait.

In 2006 lawyers for Rush Limbaugh, who had been accused by Florida prosecutors of “doctor shopping” for painkillers, announced a deal under which a single prescription fraud charge against the talk show host would be dismissed after 18 months.