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2005-10-28

On this day in History - Oct. 28

0306- Maxentius is proclaimed Roman emperor.
0312 - Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine the Great defeats the forces of Maxentius.
1017 - Henry III was born. Roman Catholic German emperor, 1046-56
1225 - Jien dies (b. 1155). Japanese poet and historian
1412 - Margaret I of Denmark dies (b. 1353). Queen of Haakon VI of Norway
1485 - Rodolphus Agricola dies (b. 1443). Dutch humanist.
1492 - Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba.
1510 - St. Francis Borgia was born (d. 1572). Spanish duke and Jesuit priest
1516 - Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza.
1520 - Pier Gerlofs Donia dies. Frisian pirate and freedom fighter
1531 - Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi again defeats the army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia. The southern part of Ethiopia falls under Imam Ahmad's control.
1568 - Ashikaga Yoshihide dies (b. 1539). Japanese shogun.
1585 - Cornelius Jansen was born (d. 1638). French bishop and religious reformer.
1627 - Jahangir dies (b. 1569). Mughal Emperor of India.
1636 - Harvard University (Cambridge Mass) founded
1639 - Stefano Landi dies (b. 1587). Italian composer.
1646 - William Dobson dies (b. 1610). English painter.
1661 - Agustín Moreto y Cavana died (b. 1518). Spanish playwright.
1676 - Jean Desmarets dies (b. 1595). French writer.
1691 - Peder Tordenskjold was born (d.1720). Norwegian naval hero
1703 - Antoine Deparcieux was born (d. 1768). French mathematician.
1703 - John Wallis died (b. 1616). English mathematician.
1704 - John Locke died (b. 1632). English philosopher.
1708 - Prince George of Denmark died (b. 1653). Consort of Queen Anne of England
1716 - Stephen Fox died (b. 1627). English politician.
1718 - Ignacije Szentmartony was born (d. 1793). Croatian geographer
1740 - Ivan VI becomes czar of Russia
1740 - Anna Ivanova Romanova dies (b. 1693). Empress of Russia (1730-40)
1746 - Peruvian cities of Lima and Callao demolished by earthquake, 18,000 die
1754 - Friedrich von Hagedorn dies (b. 1708). German poet.
1755 - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier dies (b. 1689). French composer.
1763 - Heinrich, count von Brühl dies (b. 1700). German statesman.
1768 - Michel Blavet died (b. 1700). French flutist.
1776 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Plains - British forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans.
1793 - Eliphalet Remington was born (d. 1861). American firearms manufacturer.
1794 - John Smeaton dies (b . 1724). English civil engineer
1800 - Artemas Ward dies (b. 1727). American politician and soldier
1804 - Pierre François Verhulst was born (d. 1849). Belgian mathematician.
1806 - Charlotte Turner Smith dies (b. 1749). English poet and novelist.
1818 - Abigail Adams dies (b. 1744). First Lady of the United States
1841 - Johan August Arfwedson dies (b. 1792). Swedish chemist.
1841 - Nasce José Fontana, iniciador do movimento operário em Portugal.
1846 - Georges Auguste Escoffier was born (d. 1935). French chef.
1857 - Louis Eugène Cavaignac dies (b. 1802). French soldier and politician.
1864 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Fair Oaks ends - Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond, Virginia.
1868 - Thomas Edison applied for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.
1877 - Robert Swinhoe dies (b. 1835). British naturalist.
1879 - Marie Roch Louis Reybaud died (b. 1799). French writer.
1885 - Velimir Khlebnikov was born (d. 1922). Russian poet
1886 - In New York Harbor, US President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
1892 - Dink Johnson was born (d. 1954). American musician
1894 – Américo de Oliveira Durão was born in Coruche (d. in Lisbon, 7 Mar 1969). Portuguese dramatist and poet.
1896 - Howard Hanson was born (d. 1981). American composer
1897 - Hercules Robinson dies (b. 1824). British colonial administrator.
1899 - Ottmar Mergenthaler dies (b. 1854). German-born inventor
1900 - Max Müller dies (b. 1823). German-born orientalist
1902 - Elsa Lanchester was born (d. 1986). British-born actress.
1903 - Evelyn Waugh was born (d. 1966). English writer.
1907 - Edith Head was born (d. 1981). American costum designer.
1909 - Francis Bacon was born (d. 1992). Irish painter.
1909 –Antonio Ruy de Noronha was born in Mozambique (d. 25 Dec 1943). Portuguese journalist and poet
1912 - Richard Doll was born (d. 2005). English epidemiologist.
1914 - Jonas Salk was born (d. 1995). American medical scientist
1914 - Richard Laurence Millington Synge was born (d. 1994). English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1915 - Paul Jarrico was born (d. 1997). American screenwriter.
1916- Oswald Boelcke dies (b. 1891). German pilot
1916 - Cleveland Abbe dies (b. 1838). American meteorologist
1917 - Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg died (b. 1831)
1918 - Ulisse Dini died (b. 1845). Italian mathematician
1918 - Czechoslovakia gains its independence from Austria-Hungary.
1918 - New Polish government in Western Galicia (Central Europe).
1919 - Prohibition begins: The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
1920 - Natércia Freire was born in Benavente (d. 2004). Portuguese poetess.
1922 - March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government with the assistance of the Catholic Church; pope Pius XI declares that "Mussolini is a man sent by divine providence."
1922 - Gershon Kingsley was born. German composer
1922 - Simon Muzenda was born (d. 2003). Zimbabwean politician
1924 - Tony de Matos was born. Portuguese singer.
1929 - Bernhard von Bülow dies (b. 1849). Chancellor of Germany
1930 - Bernie Ecclestone was born. English racing official
1932 - Suzy Parker was born (d. 2003). American actress
1936 - US President Franklin Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.
1937 - Charlie Daniels was born. American musician
1938 - Anne Perry was born. English-born novelist
1939 - Jane Alexander was born. American actress
1940 - World War II: Italy invades Greece through Albanian and is the selected anniversary of Greece's entry into World War II. It is celebrated in Greece as "OXI" Day.
1942 - The Alaska Highway is completed.
1943 - The Philadelphia Experiment supposedly occured.
1944 - Dennis Franz was born. American actor
1948 - Telma Hopkins was born. American singer
1948 - Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
1948 - Flag of Israel is adopted
1949 - Georges Bidault becomes Prime Minister of France
1949 - Bruce Jenner was born. American athlete
1950 - The Jack Benny Show, starring Jack Benny, premiers (it ran for 15 years).
1952 - Billy Hughes dies (b. 1862). Seventh Prime Minister of Australia
1954 - Ernest Hemingway wins Nobel prize for literature.
1955 - Bill Gates was born. American software pioneer.
1957 - Ernst Gräfenberg dies (b. 1881). German physican and scientist
1958 - Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli becomes Pope and takes the name Pope John XXIII.
1959 - Camilo Cienfuegos dies (b. 1932). Cuban revolutionary
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he had ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
1963 - Verónica Gamba was born in Buenos Aires. Playmate, November, 1983
1963 - Eros Ramazzotti was born, Italian pop musician, songwriter, Adesso Te
1965 - French foreign minister Couve de Murville travels to Moscow.
1965 - Nostra Aetate, the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions" of the Second Vatican Council, was promulgated by Pope Paul VI; it absolves the Jews of the alleged killing of Jesus, reversing Innocent III's declaration from 760 years ago. In short, Pope Paul VI announces that ecumenical council has decided that Jews are not collectively responsible for the killing of Christ.
1965 - In St. Louis, Missouri, the 630-foot-tall parabolic (catenarian) steel Gateway Arch is completed.
1965 - Earl Bostic died (b. 1913). American saxophonist
1966 - Steve Atwater was born. American football player
1967 - Julia Roberts was born in Smyrna, Georgia. American actress Mystic Pizza, Pretty Woman
1967 - John Romero was born. American video game designer
1968 - Ben Harper was born. American musician
1970 - Land speed record set by Gary Gabelich in a rocket powered automobile called the Blue Flame
1972 - Terrell Davis was born. American football player
1973 - Sergio Tofano dies (b. 1883). Italian actor
1973 - Taha Hussein dies (b. 1889). Egyptian writer
1974 - Joaquin Phoenix was born. Puerto Rican-born actor
1975 - Georges Carpentier dies (b. 1894). French boxer
1976 - John D. Ehrlichman, former domestic policy adviser of President Nixon and convicted Watergate felon, arrives at the Swift Trail Camp minimum-security facility in southeastern Arizona.
1977 - Lara Antunes was born. Miss Portugal 1997 , model
1977 - Miguel Mihura dies (b. 21 Jun 1905). Spanish dramatist, humourist and writer.
1979 - Aki Hakala was born. The drummer of The Rasmus
1980 - Alan Smith was born. English footballer
1981 - Milan Baros was born. Czech footballer.
1982 - Felipe González torna-se o primeiro primeiro-ministro socialista em Espanha, após ter obtido grande maioria eleitoral.
1984 - 14th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:29:30
1984 - 15th New York City Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:14:53
1986 - The centennial of the Statue of Liberty's dedication is celebrated in New York Harbor.
1986 - Jeremy Bamber is found guilty of the murder of his parents, sister and twin nephews and is given five life sentences.
1986 - John Braine dies (b. 1922). English novelist
1987 - André Masson dies (b. 04 Jan 1896). French Surrealist painter, sculptor, draftsman, printmaker, illustrator, stage designer, and writer.
1988 - Pietro Annigoni dies (b. 7 Jun 1910). Italian painter.
1988 - Abortion: 48 hours after announcing it was abandoning RU-486, French manufacturer Roussel Uclaf states that it would resume distribution of the drug, bowing to pressure from the government of France.
1996 - Morey Amsterdam dies (b. 1908). American actor and comedian
1997 - The bulls come running back as the Dow Jones Industrial Average gains a record 337.17 points to close at 7,498.32. The massive rally comes a day after a 554 point drop. One billion shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange for the first time ever.
1998 - An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan. After landing the plane safely, Yuan Bin was arrested.
1998 - Ted Hughes dies (b. 1930). English poet
2000 - Lída Baarová dies (b. 1914). Czech actress.
2000 - Carlos Guastavino dies (b. 1912). Argentine composer
2001 - Gerard Hengeveld dies (b. 1910). Dutch composer
2002 - Margaret Booth dies (b. 1898). American film editor
2002 - Erling Persson dies (b. 1917). Swedish entrepreneur
2004 - Jimmy McLarnin dies (b. 1907). Irish-born boxer
Feast day of Saint Jude the Thaddaeus (also known as Saint Thaddaeus)
Feast day of Saint Simon the Canaanite
Greece - Oxi (No) Day
Czech Republic - Independence Day (Founding Day)
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