Today in Military History April 28

28/04/1503   The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as one of the first European battles in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.

28/04/1758   Battle of Attock: The Marathas under Raghunath Rao capture Attock from the Durranis.

 28/04/1789    The mutiny on HMS Bounty took place

28/04/1792   France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.

28/04/1944    World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.

28/04/1952   Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.

28/04/1952   The Treaty of San Francisco comes into effect, restoring Japanese sovereignty and ending its state of war with most of the Allies of World War II.

28/04/1952   The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.

28/04/1965   United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops.

28/04/1970   Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.

28/04/1986 – The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea.