CoM Moderators Posted April 28 Posted April 28 1728 - 82 survivors of the Dutch ship Zeewijk sail into Batavia on a hand-built boat, ten months after being shipwrecked off the western coast of Australia 1930 - 1st night organized baseball game played in Independence, Kansas 1965 - "My Name is Barbra", Barbra Streisand's first television special, premieres on CBS 1965 - William F. Raborn Jr. replaces John A. McCone as 7th head of CIA 1967 - Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army and stripped of boxing title 1980 - US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance resigns in protest over the Iran hostage rescue attempt 1993 - Zambian national football team dies in a plane crash near Libreville, Gabon that kills 30 people 1995 - Gas explosion in South Korean metro, 103 die 2018 - Danny DeVito Day declared in Jersey for 17th November by Mayor John Moor of Asbury Park 2019 - American diver Victor Vescovo makes the deepest dive ever to the bottom of the Mariana trench at 10,927m (35,849ft), and finds a plastic bag More Historical Events »
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