On this day in history - April 28

What Happened On This Day – April 28

• 2004 The first Abu Ghraib torture pictures are published

  The images aired in a 60 Minutes II report showed gross human rights violations, including torture and murder, committed by U.S. soldiers and CIA personnel in the Baghdad prison.

• 2001 Dennis Tito becomes the first space tourist in history

  A Russian rocket transported the Californian billionaire to the International Space Station (ISS).

• 1994 Former CIA officer Aldrich Ames admits he forwarded U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union

  Ames was sentenced to life imprisonment for his activities which amounted to one of the most damaging spy cases in U.S. history.

• 1969 Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France

  De Gaulle founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and became its first President a year later.

• 1947 Thor Heyerdahl begins his legendary journey on Kon-Tiki

  The Norwegian explorer and his crew set out on the 101-day journey on the self-built raft to prove that South Americans could have reached and settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.