On This Day April 28
1962 – "Good Luck Charm," by Elvis Presley, begins its second and final week on top of the pop chart.
1965 – Barbra Streisand makes her television debut in the CBS special, "My Name is Barbra," in conjunction with the album of the same name. The hour-long special consists of three acts and clinches five Emmy and two Tony Awards. The album captures a Best Female Vocal Performance Grammy.
1968 – The first rock musical, "Hair," opens at New York's Biltmore Theater, featuring the songs "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In," "Good Morning Starshine" and the title track. More than 1,700 performances are given by the time it closes in the summer of 1972.
1979 – Blondie's "Heart of Glass," off the band's "Parallel Lines" album, is a Billboard No. 1 for a week
1984 – Phil Collins rules the Billboard Hot 100 with "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)," from the movie "Against All Odds."
1990 – Sinéad O'Connor is mid-way through a four-week domination of the pop chart with the Prince composition, "Nothing Compares 2 U."
1999 – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1945 – Italy's deposed former dictator, Benito Mussolini (a.k.a. "Il Duce"), and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland.
1967 – Boxing champion Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the U.S. Army to serve in the Vietnam War. He is immediately stripped of his world heavyweight title. Ali, a Muslim, cites religious reasons for his decision to forgo military service.
1969 – Charles de Gaulle, a towering figure in post-World War II politics, resigns as the president of France.
1988 – An Aloha Airlines 737 makes an emergency landing on Maui, Hawaii after a large section of roof and fuselage tears away in flight, killing one stewardess.
2004 – Comcast, America's largest cable operator, abandons a $54 billion hostile takeover bid for the Walt Disney Company in the face of faltering stock prices and Disney's continued refusal to entertain the proposal.
1916 – Italian industrialist Ferruccio Lamborghini, who founded the high-end sports car company that bears his name (d. 1993)
1926 – Novelist Harper Lee, best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller "To Kill a Mockingbird" (d. 2016)
1941 – Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actress-dancer-singer Ann-Margret ("Carnal Knowledge," "Tommy")
1950 – Emmy-winning TV host, stand-up comedian and classic car collector Jay Leno, born James Douglas Muir Leno ("The Tonight Show," "The Jay Leno Show," "Jay Leno's Garage")
1952 – Actress Mary McDonnell ("Dances With Wolves," "Passion Fish," "Independence Day")
1971 – Actress Bridget Moynahan ("I, Robot," "Lord of War," "Blue Bloods")
1973 – Actor Jorge Garcia, best known for playing Hugo "Hurley" Reyes in the TV series "Lost"
1974 – Oscar-winning actress Penélope Cruz ("Vanilla Sky," "Captain Corelli's Mandolin," "Vicki Cristina Barcelona")
1981 – Actress Jessica Alba ("Dark Angel," the "Sin City" films, the "Fantastic Four" movie series, "Into The Blue," "Good Luck Chuck," "Spy Kids 4: All The Time in the World")
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