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The expansion era of the National Hockey League (NHL) began when six new teams were added to the original six for the 1967–68 season. The expansion teams formed the newly created West Division: the Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota North Stars, Oakland Seals, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins and St. Louis Blues. By 1978, the NHL had lost the Seals and had added another six teams: the Buffalo Sabres, Vancouver Canucks, Atlanta Flames, New York Islanders, Colorado Rockies, and Washington Capitals. They added another four teams in 1979, absorbed from the defunct World Hockey Association—the Edmonton Oilers, Hartford Whalers, Quebec Nordiques and Winnipeg Jets—for a total of 21 teams, a figure that remained constant until the San Jose Sharks joined as an expansion franchise in 1991. The NHL became involved in international play in the Summit Series in 1972, matching NHL players against the top players of the Soviet Union, and in the Canada Cup and Super Series between 1976 and 1991. The expansion era was one of the highest-scoring periods in NHL history, led in the 1980s by the Edmonton Oilers and Wayne Gretzky (pictured in 2006), who scored 215 points in 1985–86, still a league record. (Full article...)

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Mustafa Akıncı (pictured) is elected President of Northern Cyprus.
At the London Marathon, Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge wins the men's race and Ethiopian Tigist Tufa wins the women's race.
More than 4,300 people die after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake strikes Nepal.
The Armenian Apostolic Church canonizes 1.5 million victims of the Armenian Genocide.
The L0 Series maglev train breaks the world speed record and becomes the first train to run at more than 600 km/h (375 mph).

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April 28: International Workers' Memorial Day

1253 – Nichiren (pictured), a Japanese monk, expounded Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the first time and declared it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
1789 – About 1,300 miles west of Tahiti, Fletcher Christian, master's mate on board the Royal Navy ship HMAV Bounty, led a mutiny against the ship's commander William Bligh.
1910 – Frenchman Louis Paulhan won the London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
1952 – Japan and China signed the Treaty of Taipei to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War, seven years after fighting in that conflict ended due to World War II.
1975 – Chief of the South Vietnamese army Cao Văn Viên fled the country as the North Vietnamese closed in on Saigon.

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A female chestnut teal (Anas castanea), a species of dabbling duck commonly found in southern Australia and Tasmania. These omnivores, which can be differentiated from grey teals by their darker colour and larger size, prefer coastal estuaries and wetlands.

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