April 28:

A.D. 585: A war between Media and Lydia is ended by a solar eclipse.

A.D. 1686: The first volume of Isaac Newton's Principia is published.

A.D. 1770: Captain James Cook lands in Botany Bay.

A.D. 1789: Fletcher Christian and other crewmembers of the H.M.S. Bounty mutiny against Captain Bligh, who is abandoned in a boat with the remaining loyal crewmembers.

A three volume book was written about the mutiny and the survival of Captain Bligh et al. I read the second volume, but haven't gotten around to the first and third yet (they're readable as individual stories).