This day in history - April 28
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:21 pm
1789 - The crew of the Bounty mutineed and cast off Captain William Bligh and 18 others in a launch. Bligh and his companions sailed over 3,000 miles in 47 days, as documented in Men Against the Sea and many other books and dramas.
These events were so long ago and have been retold so many ways that the new seem mythical rather than historical.
1945 - Mussolini was executed by Italian resistance fighters.
1967 - Muhammad Ali refused to report for induction into the Army, after being drafted. He was denied conscientious objector status and convicted of draft evasion. He was stripped of his heavyweight title and prohibited from boxing in the U.S. for three years.
Eventually his conviction was overturned.
1947 - The crew of Kon-Tiki set out from Peru on a voyage that ended in Polynesia. They sailed over 4,300 miles in 101 days. Another fascinating story of survival in the ocean.
The expedition leader, Thor Heyerdahl, successfully demonstrated that people from South America could have made it to Polynesia. This theory has never been proven or completely falsified.
- Jim
These events were so long ago and have been retold so many ways that the new seem mythical rather than historical.
1945 - Mussolini was executed by Italian resistance fighters.
1967 - Muhammad Ali refused to report for induction into the Army, after being drafted. He was denied conscientious objector status and convicted of draft evasion. He was stripped of his heavyweight title and prohibited from boxing in the U.S. for three years.
Eventually his conviction was overturned.
1947 - The crew of Kon-Tiki set out from Peru on a voyage that ended in Polynesia. They sailed over 4,300 miles in 101 days. Another fascinating story of survival in the ocean.
The expedition leader, Thor Heyerdahl, successfully demonstrated that people from South America could have made it to Polynesia. This theory has never been proven or completely falsified.
- Jim