On April 29, 2004, the World War II Memorial opened in
Washington, D.C. to thousands of visitors, providing
overdue recognition for the 16 million U.S. men and
women who served in the war. The memorial is located
on 7.4 acres on the former site of the Rainbow Pool at
the National Mall between the Washington Monument
and the Lincoln Memorial. The Capitol dome is seen to
the east, and Arlington Cemetery is just across the
Potomac River to the west.

 
SANDY KOZEL

Jerome Allen Seinfeld

Stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer is 70
today. Comedy Central named him the 12th-greatest
stand-up comedian of all time.            

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.

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.
Fox News

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 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.

A 1960 reconstruction of HMS Bounty