April 28

The Day That Specializes in Refusal

De: On This Day

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

April 28 isn’t just a date. It’s history digging in its heels.

One seemingly ordinary date turns into a 24-hour pileup of mutiny, conscience, defiance, collapse, reinvention, survival, regime-ending consequences, and true stories too wild to invent. On April 28 alone: the mutiny on the Bounty exploded in the South Pacific, Muhammad Ali refused induction into the U.S. Army, Kon-Tiki sailed to challenge settled opinion, Aloha Airlines Flight 243 lost its roof and still came home, Mussolini met the end fascism had earned, and the iTunes Store told the music industry the old model was over.

Part of the On This Day… series, April 28 delivers history by date with humor, energy, and zero lecture vibes. Every book in the series focuses on one day of the year, making it easy to collect your birthday, gift a friend their date, or build a full year of gloriously unhinged human history.

Perfect for fans of history books, trivia books, narrative nonfiction, fun facts, gift books, and fascinating true events, this is history for people who like to laugh, learn, and immediately tell someone else what they just read.

For the price of a birthday card, you can grab one for everyone you know.


One date. Endless drama. Collect them all.