April 28, 1789 – Three weeks into a journey from Tahiti to the West Indies, the HMS Bounty is seized in a mutiny led by Fletcher Christian. Captain William Bligh and 18 loyal supporters were set adrift in a small boat. Christian and other mutineers eventually establish a settlement on Pitcairn Island. Bligh survived and resumed his shipping trade.
April 29, 2004 – President George W. Bush dedicates the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.D. It consists of 56 pillars, representing U. S. states and territories, and a pair of small triumphal arches for the Atlantic and Pacific theaters of the war and sits on the National Mall between the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument.
May 1, 1960 – American U-2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down over central Russia.
May 2, 2011 – Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 terrorist attacks and the FBI’s most wanted man is killed by US special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.