Today is Saturday, April 28, the 118th day of 2007. There are 247 days left in the year. On this date in 1945, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are executed by

Today is Saturday, April 28, the 118th day of 2007. There are 247 days left in the year. On this date in 1945, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are executed by Italian partisans as they attempt to flee the country.
In 1789, there is a mutiny on HMS Bounty as the crew of the British ship sets Capt. William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift in a launch in the South Pacific. In 1918, Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and the archduke's wife, Sophie, dies in prison of tuberculosis. In 1937, former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein is born in the village of al-Oja near the desert town of Tikrit (he is executed in December 2006). In 1947, a six-man expedition sails from Peru aboard a balsa wood raft named the Kon-Tiki on a 101-day journey to Polynesia. In 1952, war with Japan officially ends as a treaty that had been signed by the United States and 47 other nations takes effect. In 1967, heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali refuses to be inducted into the Army, the same day Gen. William C. Westmoreland tells Congress the U.S. "would prevail in Vietnam." In 1996, a man armed with a semiautomatic rifle opens fire on tourists on the Australian island of Tasmania, killing 35 people; he is captured by police after a 12-hour standoff at a guest cottage.
April 28, 1982: The Diocesan Board of Education approves a merger of the Immaculate Conception and Sacred Heart elementary schools on Youngstown's East Side. It is suggested the combined school be named Bishop McFadden.
The Mahoning Valley Sanitary District is seeking a 4.85 percent increase in wholesale water prices charged to its member cities, Youngstown and Niles.
The Ohio General Assembly approves a bill to issue county identification stickers for automobile license plates.
April 28, 1967: Erie, Pa., police charge a 16-year-old Lawrence County youth with murder, five hours after a restaurant owner was shot and killed during a robbery.
Mahoning County Sheriff's Deputy Carl Terek, 24, is injured, not seriously, when his 1967 Ford cruiser collides with a car that pulled into his path in Route 18 at Route 534. The cruiser is demolished.
General Motors Corp. reports that first quarter earnings fell 35 percent below its profits for the same period a year earlier, at 390 million.
April 28, 1957: Nine-year-old Eddie T. Matchette Jr. is rescued by Matilde Torres, a 25-year-old steelworker, who dove into the cold water below the Ice House Dam below Lake Glacier in Mill Creek Park and pulled him to safety. The boy fell from atop the dam while fishing.
Thirteen district building trade unions are negotiating for higher wages, with most asking for raises of between 25 and 35 cents an hour.
A 49-year-old West Farmington man driving to the Trumbull County jail to begin serving a 30-day sentence for drunken driving is arrested on charges of drunken driving and driving while under suspension.
April 28, 1932: Negotiations are reported on a merger of five steel companies, Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube, Jones & amp; Laughlin, Inland Steel and American Rolling Mills Co.
Protests are filed with Mahoning County Auditor John J. Arnold on the new tax appraisals for about 2,000 lots in Mahoning County.
Harry Bouklais, a reporter for the Ohio Examiner, is shot in front of his Canton home by two men who lay in wait for him. The newspaper has been waging a campaign against organized crime in Canton and other Ohio cities.