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On April 28, 1789, the crew of the brigantine HMS Bounty under boatswain Fletcher Christian mutinied against Captain William Bligh in the South Seas. The mutineers set Bligh adrift in a small boat with 18 loyalists and sailed 6,700 km to Timor. The mutineers settled in Tahiti and Pitcairn Island. The Mutiny on the Bounty is the most famous in naval history.

On April 28, 1945, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was captured by Communist partisans while trying to cross the Swiss border disguised as a German soldier, near Como. He was summarily executed along with his mistress Clara Petacci and other Fascist leaders. Their bodies were hung upside down at a petrol station in Milan, where crowds insulted and spat on them. Two days later, Hitler committed suicide.

On April 28, 1952, the Treaty of Peace with Japan came into force, officially ending the state of war between Japan and the Allied powers. The treaty, signed in San Francisco on September 8, 1951, restored full sovereignty to Japan but established the basis for the American military presence in the country. It is also the day Japan recovered its independence after seven years of Allied occupation.