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April 28 1644 - For the first time wheat was planted in Canada, Montreal to be exact. Okay it's not exactly a Manitoba event but in time ….  
 
Apr 28 1826 - Marked the beginning of the ice break-up on the Red River which would lead to the greatest flood in Manitoba History ("The Flood of the (Last) Century !")  
 
April 28, 1881 - Stock began selling in the newly incorporated Winnipeg Street Railway Company. It sold out within an hour.  
 
April 27 1915 - A Royal Inquiry began it's inquiry into the Manitoba Legislature Construction Scandal. During the early construction of the Leg money and building supplies went missing, substandard construction equipment was substituted for the real goods leading to part of the building having to be torn down and rebuilt with a proper foundation.  
 
Thomas Kelly, one of the prominent contractors that had the contract fled to the US, as did others. The inquiry brought down the government of Rodmond Roblin.  
 
For more info: http://timelinks.merlin.mb.ca/referenc/db0011.htm or http://www.siamandas.com/time_machine/PAGES/institutions/Leg_Scandal_Inquiry.htm  
 
April 28, 1919 - Labour unrest was continuing in Manitoba which would culminate in the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. Brandon had a sympathetic strike and, on this night, striking civic workers met with other labour groups in what the Brandon Sun called “... the biggest gathering of labour ever held in the city,” at Brandon City Hall. "The general idea ... was that all the labour here should get into one big union, which would take in all classes of labourers and so unify the whole that they would have a great strength."  
 
Quote and more information from:  
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history/17/brandon1919strike.shtml#40  
 
April 30 1932 - The City of Brandon pulled the plug on the Brandon Municipal Railway that had operated in the city since the summer of 1913. It cited a lack of public funds. Months of no public transportation was followed by a private company offering bus transportation, the forerunner to Brandon Transit.  
 
April 25 1950 - BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and PEI sign an agreement with the feds to construct a Trans Canada highway. Construction began later that summer.  
 
April 28 1967 - Expo '67 opens in Montreal - not really a Manitoba event but many Manitobans went ! For a CBC tv report on the event: http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-69-2241-13368-11/on_this_day/life_society/twt  
 
April 30 1976 - Royal Canadian Mint open their Winnipeg facility.  
 
April 30, 1984 - "Up to 10 cm of ice and high winds brought power lines crashing down over a 50 km wide area in central Manitoba. Twelve steel transmission towers and more than 3,000 utility poles were damaged as a result of the severe icing. More than 5,000 hydro personnel arrived from all parts of the province to repair the damage. The loss of hydro poles was the largest and most costly in the utility's history". From Manitoba Weather Trivia - Environment Canada www.mb.ec.gc.ca  
 
April 28, 1996 - The Winnipeg Jets lose 4-1 to Detroit in their last game.  
 
28 April 1997 - marks the one week anniversary of "The Flood of (This) Century" arriving in Manitoba. By this time the floodgates are fully opened on the Winnipeg Floodway and low lying areas are under water. Thousands have already fled from towns south of the city.