Reuters
Following are some of the major events to have occurred on April 28:
1923 - First-ever Wembley FA Cup Final.
1936 - King Faud I of Egypt died and was succeeded by his son, Farouk I.
1945 - The Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was executed by partisans near Lake Como, one day after being caught.
1994 - The former CIA officer Aldrich Ames and his wife Rosario pleaded guilty to spying for Moscow. He was sentenced to life in prison, his wife to five years.
1996 - Lone gunman Martin Bryant shoots 35 people dead at popular tourist spot Port Arthur in southern Australia.
2001 - The world's first space tourist, American Dennis Tito, blasted off on a $20-million joy ride to the International Space Station aboard a Russian rocket.
2002 - Alexander Lebed, governor of the Russian province of Krasnoyarsk, died in a helicopter crash. Lebed, a tough-talking general who played a part in foiling the 1991 coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, also ran for president against Boris Yeltsin in 1996.
2002 - Ruth Handler, the inventor of "Barbie," the doll for little girls that became one of the world's most popular toys, died aged 85.
2004 - Mosque attack in southern Thailand, in which police and troops shoot dead over 100 gun and machete-wielding Muslim/ separatists.
2013 - Two police officers shot outside Italian prime minister's office in Rome as Enrico Letta's new government is sworn in at president's palace.
2015 - Wimbledon announces record prize money in millions of dollars.
