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April 28th, 2005	Event	The Patent Law Treaty goes into effect.
April 28th, 2001	Event	Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world s first space tourist.
April 28th, 1997	Event	The 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention goes into effect, with Russia, Iraq and North Korea notable nations who have not ratified the treaty.
April 28th, 1996	Event	Whitewater controversy: Bill Clinton gives a 4? hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
April 28th, 1996	Event	In Tasmania, Australia, Martin Bryant goes on a shooting spree, killing 35 people and seriously injuring 37 more.
April 28th, 1996	Event	The NHL s Winnipeg Jets play their last game, a 4-1 playoff loss to the Detroit Red Wings.
April 28th, 1994	Event	Former C.I.A. official Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
April 28th, 1988	Event	Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown 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.
April 28th, 1987	Event	American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
April 28th, 1986	Event	The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea, on station across the "Line of Death" in the Gulf of Sidra off the coast of Libya. The transit began at 0300 and lasted 12 hours.

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