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The 1923 FA Cup Final was an association football match between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United on 28 April, the first to be played at the original Wembley Stadium in London. This Football Association Challenge Cup (FA Cup), the showpiece match of English football's primary cup competition, drew a chaotic crowd of up to 300,000, far exceeding the stadium's official capacity of around 125,000. Mounted policemen, including one on a light-coloured horse (pictured) that became the defining image of the day, had to be brought in to clear the crowds from the pitch. (The match is still referred to as the "White Horse Final".) Although West Ham started strongly, Bolton proved the dominant team for most of the match and won 2–0. David Jack scored a goal two minutes after the start of the match and Jack Smith added a controversial second goal during the second half. The pre-match events prompted discussion in the House of Commons and led to the introduction of safety measures for future finals. (Full article...)

• ... that President John F. Kennedy (pictured) said: "We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard"?
• ... that Gujarati poet Manilal H. Patel has written poetry touching on his experiences in and around Idar, a town in the Gujarat state of India?
• ... that Spain abandoned El Piñal , its trading port in China, after encountering hostilities from the Portuguese?
• ... that in 1851, the German soprano Anna Bochkoltz-Falconi appeared at La Scala in Milan in Pergolesi's Lo frate 'nnamorato ?
• ... that the former baggage room of Edmonds station is now used by a model railroad club?
• ... that 18S rDNA analysis has shown that the green algae genus Golenkinia may belong to a previously unknown sister clade of order Sphaeropleales?
• ... that Leo Tornikios , a failed claimant to the Byzantine throne, was publicly blinded at Christmas 1047?
• ... that a Royal Australian Air Force officer is the head of the UN's rear ?

• At the inter-Korean summit at the Peace House in Panmunjom, the leaders of North and South Korea (pictured) agree to formally end the Korean War later this year.
• American comedian Bill Cosby is found guilty of sexual assault in a retrial of a case that was closed as a mistrial in 2017.
• Danish entrepreneur Peter Madsen is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Kim Wall .
• Serzh Sargsyan resigns as Prime Minister of Armenia, following large-scale protests .
• Ten people are killed and fifteen injured after a van was driven at speed along a sidewalk and into pedestrians in Toronto, Canada.

April 28 : International Workers' Memorial Day

• 1253 – Nichiren (pictured), a Japanese monk, expounded Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō for the first time and declared it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism .
• 1789 – About 1,300 miles (2,100 km) west of Tahiti, Fletcher Christian, acting lieutenant on board the Royal Navy ship Bounty, led a mutiny against the commander, William Bligh.
• 1941 – Presaging a campaign of genocide against Serbs of Croatia, the Ustashe movement massacred around 190 people in Gudovac.
• 1988 – Aloha Airlines Flight 243 suffered an explosive decompression in flight between Hilo and Honolulu, Hawaii, with one fatality as a flight attendant was ejected from the aircraft.

Hertha Ayrton (b. 1854) · Penélope Cruz (b. 1974) · Regina Martínez Pérez (d. 2012)