{"id":2893,"date":"2005-04-28T08:56:04","date_gmt":"2005-04-28T12:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2025-10-09T20:13:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T00:13:36","slug":"today-in-history-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2893","title":{"rendered":"Today in History: April 28, 1789"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 28th, 1789, 12 crew members of the HMS Bounty burst into Captain Bligh&#8217;s cabin, dragged him out onto the deck of the ship, put him in a lifeboat, and set him adrift.  It was the now-famous Mutiny on the Bounty.  17 other crew members elected to go with Bligh.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lareau.org\/bounty.html\">Here&#8217;s a really interesting page devoted to this event.<\/a>  And here&#8217;s another very interesting page, about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fionamountain.com\/press.htm\">William Wordsworth&#8217;s connection to this event<\/a>. I think they believe now that Bligh wasn&#8217;t any worse than any other sea captain &#8211; it was just that the crew had all fallen in love\/lust with the Tahitian women and didn&#8217;t want to leave.  Captain Bligh and the 17 men ended up sailing, in the lifeboat, for Timor &#8211; almost 4,000 miles away.  It&#8217;s astonishing to contemplate what they must have gone through.  But they made it.  They arrived 48 days later, all alive, and intact, on the island of Timor.  Extraordinary story, the whole thing.  I have to admit I know most of it from the movie, but also because of my interest in Captain Cook.  Don&#8217;t ask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 28th, 1789, 12 crew members of the HMS Bounty burst into Captain Bligh&#8217;s cabin, dragged him out onto the deck of the ship, put him in a lifeboat, and set him adrift. It was the now-famous Mutiny on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2893\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[2590],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18554,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions\/18554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}