28/04/10

Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors were set adrift from the HMS Bounty in 1789.  The USSR annexed Azerbaijan in 1920.  Australia's worst mass murder happened in 1996 when a gunman in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killed 35 people and injured 21 others.

Born today:  Lionel Barrymore (1878-1954), Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Oskar Schindler (1908-1974), Feruccio Lamborghini (1916-1993), Alistair MacLean (1922-1987), Blossom Dearie (1926-2009), Harper Lee (1926), Ann-Margaret (1941), Terry Pratchett (1948), Bruno Kirby (1949-2006), Walter Zenga (1960) and Penélope Cruz (1974).

It is National Heroes' Day in Barbados.