Important Events From This day in History – 28 April

Today in History

• 2004 The first Abu Ghraib torture pictures are published

  Images broadcast on 60 Minutes II showed gross human rights violations, including torture and murder, committed by US soldiers and CIA personnel in the Baghdad prison.

• 2001 Dennis Tito becomes the first space tourist in history

  A Russian rocket transported the Californian billionaire to the International Space Station (ISS).

• 1994 Former CIA officer Aldrich Ames admits he forwarded U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union

  Ames was sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in one of the most damaging spy cases in US history.

• 1969 Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France

  De Gaulle founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and became its first President a year later.

• 1947 Thor Heyerdahl begins his legendary journey on Kon-Tiki

  The Norwegian explorer and his crew embarked on a 101-day journey on a self-built raft to demonstrate that South Americans could have reached and settled Polynesia before the arrival of the Europeans.