What happened on 28 April?

13 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1951 Premiership of Mohammad Mossadegh Nationalised Anglo-Iranian oil and was removed by a coup backed by Britain and the United States.
2. 1986 A Swedish alarm exposes the secret A worker at Sweden's Forsmark plant sets off a contamination alarm — with the radiation coming from his shoes, and from outside. Within hours the fallout is traced back across the
3. 1945 Mussolini executed Captured and shot by Italian partisans.
4. 2004 Abu Ghraib torture scandal Photographs of US soldiers abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib prison provoke global outrage and damage America's standing.
5. 1521 Cortés launches his lake fleet Thirteen brigantines — built in Tlaxcala, carried in pieces over the mountains by eight thousand porters, and assembled on a canal dug for the purpose — take Lake Texcoco from the
6. 1916 Tilak founds the All India Home Rule League 'Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it' — Tilak turns the demand for self-rule into a mass movement.
7. 1589 The English Armada fails at Lisbon England sends its own great fleet under Drake to burn the Armada's survivors and raise Portugal in revolt — and fares as badly as Spain had. Disease and bungling cost perhaps 15,00
8. 1789 Mutiny on the Bounty Sailors seize HMS Bounty in the South Pacific and settle Pitcairn Island, an enduring tale of the age of sail.
9. 1969 De Gaulle resigns After losing a referendum on Senate and regional reform, de Gaulle resigns the presidency the next day and retires to Colombey; he dies eighteen months later.
10. 1949 London Declaration creates the modern Commonwealth India's wish to stay as a republic remakes the club: a republic may remain a member, accepting the King as the symbol of the free association of its independent member nations and
11. 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition Thor Heyerdahl sails a balsa raft from Peru to Polynesia to argue ancient peoples could have crossed the Pacific.
12. 1925 Churchill returns Britain to the gold standard As Chancellor, Churchill restores sterling to gold at its pre-war parity — a decision Keynes savages for overvaluing the pound, deepening deflation on the road to the General Strik
13. 1967 Ali refuses induction into the US Army Citing his faith and opposition to the Vietnam War, Ali refuses to step forward when his name is called in Houston; stripped of his title and banned for three years, he is vindicat