Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/April/April 28
Book releases
- 2005 - Gil's All Fright Diner, an urban fantasy novel by A. Lee Martinez
Film releases
- 1995 - Village of the Damned, a science fiction–horror film directed by John Carpenter
- 2009 - The Terminators, a science fiction film by The Asylum
Television series
- 1958 - Adventures of Superman, an American television series based on comic book characters and concepts created in 1938 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, finishes airing in first-run syndication and on American Broadcasting Company
- 1994 - Prisoners of Gravity, Canadian public broadcasting television news magazine program that explored speculative fiction, finishes airing on TVOntario
Births
- 1910 - Sam Merwin, Jr. (d. 1996), an American mystery fiction writer, science fiction author and editor
- 1914 - Philip E. High (d. 2006), an English science fiction author
- 1942 - William Sanders, an American science fiction editor and writer, primarily of short fiction
- 1947 - Ken St. Andre, a public librarian, fantasy author, and game designer
Deaths
- 1994 - Robert Spencer Carr (b. 1909), an American writer of science fiction and fantasy
- 1998 - Jerome Bixby (b. 1923), an American short story writer, editor and scriptwriter
Anniversaries and events
- 1905 - William H. Pickering announces the discovery of Themis, an alleged tenth satellite of Saturn whose existence has never been confirmed by any other astronomer and which has only appeared in works of science fiction
- 1997 - Jekyll & Hyde, a musical based on the novelal Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, opens on Broadway