Archive for April 28th, 2024

Apr

COVERED BY LIFE MAGAZINE ON THIS DAY

LIFE | April 28, 1958 at Wolfgang's

Baseball Legend Willie Mays Is The Subject Of A New HBO Documentary

Willie Howard Mays Jr. (92) nicknamed "the Say Hey Kid"
is a former center fielder in Major League Baseball. He is regarded as one of the greatest players ever and ranks
second behind only Babe Ruth on most all-time lists.

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Apr

THE CHAMP REFUSED TO SERVE IN MILITARY

Muhammed Ali Refusing Army Draft Into Vietnam War | NOWNESS

Muhammad Ali, the reigning world heavyweight boxing champion, entered the combative ring of politics and culture by refusing to
serve in the United States military at the height of the Vietnam
War on this day in history, April 28, 1967.

"I ain’t got no quarrel with those Vietcong," Ali famously said the
year before, the exact quote the source of some dispute, in a
battle that made it all the way to the United States Supreme
Court. The Vietnam War was at its heights at the time.
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April 28, 1967: Muhammad Ali causes uproar by refusing to be drafted into US Army | BT

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Ali was convicted and given five years in prison for refusing induction in to the United States draft as mandated by the Selective Service Act.

The "Draft Dodger": Ali's Fight Against an Unjust War and the Country That Waged It | FIGHTLAND

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Apr

MUTINY TOOK PLACE ON THIS DAY IN 1879

Three weeks into a journey from Tahiti to the West Indies, the
HMS Bounty is seized in a mutiny led by Fletcher Christian,
the master’s mate. Captain William Bligh and 18 of his loyal
supporters were set adrift in a small, open boat, and the
Bounty set course for Tubuai south of Tahiti.

The mutineers seize the Bounty, depicted in an 1841
engraving by Hablot Knight Browne.