Today is Monday, April 28, the 119th day of 2008. There are 247 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Monday, April 28, the 119th day of 2008. There are 247 days left in the year. On this date 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 1945, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are executed by Italian partisans as they attempt to flee the country. In 1952, war with Japan officially ends as a treaty signed in San Francisco the year before takes effect. In 1958, Vice President Nixon and his wife, Pat, begin a goodwill tour of Latin America that is marred by hostile mobs in Lima, Peru, and Caracas, Venezuela. 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 1988, a flight attendant is killed and more than 60 persons injured when part of the roof of an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 tears off during a flight from Hilo to Honolulu. 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, 1983: Jury selection in the bribery trial of James A. Traficant Jr. enters its third day in the courtroom of Judge Ann Aldrich in Cleveland.

Twenty-four teenagers are arrested at Austintown Fitch High School on drug related charges, following a six-week investigation into the sale of drugs in the school parking lot.

Greg Krieger, manager of Brown Drug Store in Boardman, is installed as president of the Eastern Ohio Pharmaceutical Association, succeeding Karen Shagrin, a staff pharmacist at South Side Hospital.

April 28, 1968: A knife-wielding bandit dressed like a woman forces his way into a Vestal Road man’s car near St. Elizabeth Hospital and robs him of $150.

Jane Gardner, an eighth grader at St. Christine School in Youngstown, wins second place in the statewide safety slogan contest sponsored by the Ohio Highway Department.

April 28, 1958:Plans are underway for a $5 million Boardman Township sewage treatment plant to clean up Lake Newport in Mill Creek Park, but a resident near the proposed site says he will file suit to stop the project.

Dapper S. Joseph “Sandy” Naples, 52, who has long delayed serving a six-month jail term on an old numbers conviction, reports to the Mahoning County Jail to begin serving his sentence, all appeals having been exhausted.

A serious shortage of blast furnace slag in the Youngstown area is threatening to impact the construction industry, forcing builders to turn to long-unused slag piles or more expensive gravel or limestone.

April 28, 1933: Steelmaking in the Youngstown District reaches 23 percent of capacity, rising above the level for the same period a year earlier for the first time in three years. James A. Farrell, chairman of the National Foreign Trade Council, tells 1,000 delegates meeting in Pittsburgh that manufacturers are optimistic.

Mahoning County Judge David Jenkins says that based on evidence he has heard so far, the city could stop a “walkathon” being conducted by the VFW at the Rayen-Wood auditorium if the participants were animals. He takes a motion for an injunction against the marathon under advisement.