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April 28, 1978 - President of Afghanistan Mohammed Daoud Khan is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
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On April 28:

1789 – Fletcher Christian led a mutiny aboard the Royal Navy ship HMAV Bounty against its commander William Bligh.
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April 28 1897:

The Chickasaw and Choctaw, two of the Five Civilized Tribes,
become the first to agree to abolish tribal government and communal ownership of land.
The other tribes soon followed, finally throwing open all of Indian Territory to white settlement.

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April 29, 1429 - Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans, and is considered the second coming of Jesus Christ in the body of a woman, and is later burned at the stake by the English.
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On April 29:

1770 – British explorer James Cook and the crew of HM Bark Endeavour made their first landfall on Australia on the coast of Botany Bay near present-day Sydney.
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April 30 1945:

Der Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany,
burrowed away in a refurbished air-raid shelter, consumes a cyanide capsule, then shoots himself with a pistol,
on this day in 1945, as his "1,000-year" Reich collapses above him.

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On April 30:

1943 - World War II: Operation Mincemeat – The submarine HMS Seraph surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat
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May 1st 1945: Germany announces Hitler is dead
The German Fuhrer is killed in the Reich Chancery of Berlin fighting the Soviets, according to German radio.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/1/newsid_3571000
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May 1, 1840 – The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland first issued the Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp.
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On May 1:

1931 - The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
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