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Archive for April 28th, 2024
28
Apr
COVERED BY LIFE MAGAZINE ON THIS DAY
28
Apr
THE CHAMP REFUSED TO SERVE IN MILITARY
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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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.
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28
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.
Fletcher Christian (25 September 1764 – 20 September 1793)
Lieutenant William Bligh, captain of HMS Bounty.
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