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Historical Events for 28th April 2024
1901 - Cleveland's Bock Baker gives up a record 23 singles as White Sox beat Blues (Cleveland Blues&;#33;) 13-1
1919 - American stuntman and parachute developer Leslie Irvin (23) makes first premeditated free-fall parachute jump from a plane above US the Army Air Service's McCook Field near Dayton‚ Ohio
1955 - WBIQ TV channel 10 in Birmingham‚ Alabama (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - WIPM TV channel 3 in Mayaguez‚ PR (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 - Richard Helms replaces Marshall S. Carter as deputy director of CIA
1991 - Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) launched
1993 - Carlo Ciampi forms Italian government with ex-communists
1997 - Ringo Starr's fourth All-Starr Band debuts in concert; members include: Peter Frampton‚ Jack Bruce‚ Gary Brooker‚ Simon Kirke‚ and Mark Rivera
2007 - ICC Men's Cricket ODI World Cup‚ Kensington Oval‚ Bridgetown‚ Barbados: Australia 3-peat with 53 run win over Sri Lanka; Player of the Match: Adam Gilchrist (AUS) 149 (104) and 2 catches
2018 - Shaquem Griffin is the first one-handed person to be drafted into the NFL; selected by Seattle Seahawks
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