On This Day: What happened on 28 April?

Here’s a look at what happened on this day, 28 April, throughout history. We remember the news, events, and people that influenced the course of history forever.

1993 | Zambian Air Force AF-319 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean killing 5 crew members and 25 of the Zambian national football team who were on their way to a FIFA World Cup Qualifier match against Senegal in Dakar.

2005 | South Africa became a partner in the Airbus A400M Atlas airlifter programme.

2017 | Thabo Mbeki received an honorary degree from Dedan Kimathi University in Kenya for his role in the liberation of South Africa and the African renaissance.

2017 | 10,000 Tanzanian civil servants were fired by Tanzanian President John Magufuli for having fake secondary certificates.

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DEATHS

2001 | Mali football player, Bako Touré (61) 

2008 | South African footballer, Eudy Simelane (31)

2018 | South African television presenter and actor, Akhumzi Jezile (29) 

2020 | Former Tanzanian Judge of the African Court on Human & People’s Rights, Augustino Ramadhani, (74)

BIRTHDAYS

1924 | Former president of Zambia, Dr Kenneth Kaunda 

1962 | South African film director, Darrell Roodt

1974 | South African actress, Lesego Motsepe

SPORT

2012 | South Africa beat the Czech Republic 6-2 at the Men’s Field Hockey Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Kakamigahara, Japan on matchday 2.

2019 | Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya won the London Marathon with a new record of 02:02:38.

 

ENTERTAINMENT

2019 | Avengers: Endgame, became the highest-grossing film it made more than $1 billion worldwide on opening.

AFRICA FACT

 The Sahara desert is the largest in the world and it spreads out across 11 countries (Libya, Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Chad, Morocco, Eritrea, Niger, Mauritania, Mali, and Sudan).