This Day in History for April 28

1758 - the fifth president of the United States, James Monroe, was born in Westmoreland County, Va.

1788 - Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the US Constitution.

1789 - the mutiny on HMS Bounty took place as the crew of the British ship set Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift in a launch in the South Pacific. (Bligh and most of the men with him managed to reach Timor in 47 days.)

1918 - Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and the archduke’s wife, Sophie, in 1914, died in prison of tuberculosis.

1940 - Glenn Miller and his Orchestra recorded “Pennsylvania 6-5000’’ for RCA Victor.

1945 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were executed by Italian partisans as they attempted to flee the country.

1958 - Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, began a good will tour of Latin America that was marred by hostile mobs in Lima and Caracas.

1967 - heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the Army, the same day General William C. Westmoreland told Congress the United States “would prevail in Vietnam.’’

1980 - President Jimmy Carter accepted the resignation of Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, who had opposed the failed rescue mission aimed at freeing US hostages in Iran. (Vance was succeeded by Edmund Muskie.)

1988 - a flight attendant was killed and more than 60 persons injured when part of the roof of an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 tore off during a flight from Hilo to Honolulu.

1990 - the musical “A Chorus Line’’ closed after 6,137 performances on Broadway.

2000 - five people, targeted for being minorities, were killed in a shooting rampage in suburban Pittsburgh; a suspect, Richard Baumhammers, was arrested. (He was later convicted and sentenced to death.)

2005 - a military jury at Fort Bragg, N.C., sentenced Army Sergeant Hasan Akbar to death for the 2003 murders of two officers in Kuwait. More than 100 volunteers joined police in Duluth, Ga., in searching for Jennifer Wilbanks, a bride-to-be who had vanished two days earlier. (Wilbanks turned up in Albuquerque, having run away on her own.)