On this day in History - Oct. 28
- 0312 - Maxentius dies (b. c. 0278). Roman emperor.
- 1017 - Henry III was born. Roman Catholic German emperor, 1046-56.
- 1061 - Empress Agnes, acting as Regent for her son, brings about the election of Bishop Cadalus, the antipope Honorius II.
- 1225 - Jien dies (b. 1155). Japanese poet and historian.
- 1312 - Elisabeth of Tirol dies, German queen.
- 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.
- 1538 - The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.
- 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.
- 1628 - The Siege of La Rochelle, which had been ongoing for 14 months, ends with Huguenot surrender.
- 1636 - A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.
- 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.
- 1664 - The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot later to be known as the Royal Marines is established.
- 1667 - Maria Anna of Neuburg was born (d. 1740). Second wife of Charles II of Spain.
- 1676 - Jean Desmarets dies (b. 1595). French writer.
- 1691 - Peder Tordenskjold was born (d.1720). Norwegian naval hero.
- 1697 - Canaletto was born (d. 1768). Italian artist.
- 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.
- 1767 - Marie Sophie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) was born (d. 1852). Queen of Denmark and Norway.
- 1768 - Michel Blavet died (b. 1700). French flutist.
- 1775 - American Revolutionary War: A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston.
- 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Plains - British forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans.
- 1792 - Paul Möhring dies (b. 1710). German physician and scientist.
- 1792 - John Smeaton dies (b. 1724). English civil engineer.
- 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 - Ivan Turgenev was born (d. 1883). Russian writer.
- 1818 - Abigail Adams dies (b. 1744). First Lady of the United States.
- 1834 - The Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
- 1837 - Tokugawa Yoshinobu was born (d. 1913). Japan's last shogun.
- 1841 - Johan August Arfwedson dies (b. 1792). Swedish chemist.
- 1841 - Nasce José Fontana, iniciador do movimento operário em Portugal.
- 1845 - Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski was born (d. 1888). Polish physicist.
- 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.
- 1864 - Adolfo Camarillo was born (d. 1958). Prominent land owner, horse breeder, and rancher.
- 1868 - Thomas Edison applied for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.
- 1875 - Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor was born (d. 1966). American geographer and editor (National Geographic Society).
- 1877 - Joe Adams was born (d. 1952). American baseball player.
- 1877 - Robert Swinhoe died (b. 1835). British naturalist.
- 1879 - Channing H. Cox was born (d. 1968). 49th Governor of Massachusetts.
- 1879 - Marie Roch Louis Reybaud died (b. 1799). French writer.
- 1881 - Bruno Söderström was born (d. 1969). Swedish athlete.
- 1881 - Vin Coutie was born. Australian footballer.
- 1885 - Velimir Khlebnikov was born (d. 1922). Russian poet.
- 1889 - Juliette Béliveau was born (d. 1975). Quebec comedian.
- 1891 - The Mino-Owari Earthquake, the largest earthquake in Japan's history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.
- 1891 - Ormer Locklear was born (d. 1920). American movie stunt pilot.
- 1892 - Dink Johnson was born (d. 1954). American musician.
- 1893 - Tchaikovksy's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique, premiered in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composer's death.
- 1894 – Américo de Oliveira Durão was born in Couço, Coruche (d. in Lisbon, 7 Mar 1969). Portuguese dramatist and poet.
- 1896 - Howard Hanson was born (d. 1981). American composer.
- 1897 - Edith Head was born (d. 1981). American costume designer.
- 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.
- 1901 - Eileen Shanahan was born (d. 1979). Irish poet.
- 1902 - Elsa Lanchester was born (d. 1986). British-born actress.
- 1903 - Evelyn Waugh was born (d. 1966). English writer.
- 1905 - George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession is first performed in New York; though it had previously been performed in London, it had been censored, and the American performance was the first on the public stage.
- 1907 - Edith Head was born (d. 1981). American costum designer.
- 1907 - John Harold Hewitt was born (d. 1987). Northern Irish poet.
- 1907 - John Hewitt was born (d. 1987). Northern Irish poet.
- 1908 - Arturo Frondizi was born (d. 1995). President of Argentina.
- 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.
- 1910 - Nelson Cavaquinho was born (d. 1986). Brazilian composer.
- 1912 - Richard Doll was born (d. 2005). English epidemiologist.
- 1914 - The single largest one-day percentage decline of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the recorded history of the New York stock market.
- 1914 - Glenn Robert Davis was born (d. 1988). U.S. Congressman.
- 1914 - Jonas Salk was born (d. 1995). American medical scientist.
- 1914 - Richard Laurence Millington Synge was born (d. 1994). English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1914 - Glenn Robert Davis was born (d. 1988). U.S. Congressman.
- 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 - Jack Soo was born (d. 1979). American actor.
- 1917 - Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg died (b. 1831).
- 1918 - The German fleet is immobilized when sailors mutiny en masse and disobey an order to leave port five times; 1,000 would ultimately be arrested.
- 1918 - New Polish government in Western Galicia (Central Europe) is established.
- 1918 - Ulisse Dini dies (b. 1845). Italian mathematician.
- 1919 - The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
- 1920 - Natércia Freire was born in Benavente (d. 2004). Portuguese poet.
- 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 - Butch van Breda Kolff was born (d. 2007). American basketball coach.
- 1922 - Gershon Kingsley was born. German composer.
- 1922 - Simon Muzenda was born (d. 2003). Zimbabwean politician.
- 1924 - Antonio Creus was born (d. 1996). Spanish racecar driver.
- 1924 - Tony de Matos was born (d. 8 Jun 1989). Portuguese singer.
- 1925 - Ian Hamilton Finlay was born (d. 2006). Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener.
- 1926 - Bowie Kuhn was born. Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
- 1928 - Ion Mihai Pacepa was born. Romanian general.
- 1929 - Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
- 1929 - Joan Plowright was born. British actress.
- 1929 - Marcel Bozzuffi was born (d. 1988). French actor.
- 1929 - John Hollander was born. American poet.
- 1929 - Bernhard von Bülow dies (b. 1849). Chancellor of Germany.
- 1930 - Bernie Ecclestone was born. English racing official.
- 1932 - Spyros Kyprianou was born. President of Cyprus.
- 1932 - Suzy Parker was born (d. 2003). American actress.
- 1933 - Garrincha was born (d. 1983).Brazilian football player.
- 1935 - Alan Clarke was born. British film director.
- 1936 - US President Franklin Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.
- 1936 - Charlie Daniels was born. American musician.
- 1936 - Carl Davis was born. American-born musical conductor and composer.
- 1937 - Lenny Wilkens was born. American basketball player and coach.
- 1938 - Anne Perry was born. English-born novelist.
- 1938 - Dina Sfat was born (d. 1988). Brazilian actress.
- 1938 - David Dimbleby was born. English television commentator.
- 1939 - Jane Alexander was born. American actress.
- 1939 - Miroslav Cerar was born. Yugoslav gymnast.
- 1939 - Alice Brady dies (b. 1892). Academy Award-winning 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. - 1940 - Susan Harris was born. American TV writer and producer.
- 1941 - John Hallam was born. Irish actor.
- 1941 - Hank Marvin was born. English guitarist.
- 1941 - Curtis Lee was born. American singer.
- 1942 - Kees Verkerk was born. Dutch speed skater.
- 1943 - The Philadelphia Experiment supposedly occured.
- 1943 - Conny Froboess was born. German singer.
- 1943 - Charo López was born. Spanish actress.
- 1944 - Dennis Franz was born. American actor.
- 1944 - Anton Schlecker was born. German billionaire.
- 1944 - Coluche was born (d. 1986). French comedian and actor.
- 1945 - Elton Dean was born (d. 2006). English musician (Soft Machine).
- 1945 - Wayne Fontana was born. English singer (The Mindbenders).
- 1946 - John Hewson was born. Australian politician.
- 1946 - Wim Jansen was born. Dutch football player and coach.
- 1948 - Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
- 1948 - Telma Hopkins was born. American singer and actress (Tony Orlando and Dawn).
- 1949 - Georges Bidault becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1949 - Bruce Jenner was born. American athlete.
- 1949 - Edite Estrela was born. Portuguese politician.
- 1949 - Tracy Reed was born. American actress.
- 1950 - The Jack Benny Show, starring Jack Benny, premiers (it ran for 15 years).
- 1950 - Ludo Delcroix was born. Belgian cyclist.
- 1950 - Sihem Bensedrine was born. Tunisian human rights activist.
- 1951 - Juan Manuel Fangio wins his first F1 World Championship.
- 1952 - Annie Potts was born. American actress.
- 1952 - Billy Hughes dies (b. 1862). Seventh Prime Minister of Australia.
- 1953 - Pierre Boivin was born. French Canadian businessman and National Hockey League executive (Montreal Canadiens).
- 1954 - Ernest Hemingway wins Nobel prize for literature.
- 1954 - The modern Kingdom of the Netherlands is re-founded as a federal monarchy.
- 1954 - Manuel Pinho was born. Portuguse economist and politician (Minister of Economy).
- 1955 - Bill Gates was born. American software pioneer.
- 1956 - Dave Wyndorf was born. American singer (Monster Magnet).
- 1956 - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was born. President of Iran.
- 1957 - Ernst Gräfenberg dies (b. 1881). German physican and scientist.
- 1958 - William Reid was born. Scottish musician (The Jesus and Mary Chain).
- 1958 - Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli becomes Pope and takes the name Pope John XXIII.
- 1959 - Rogério Samora was born. Portuguese actor.
- 1959 - Camilo Cienfuegos dies (b. 1932). Cuban revolutionary.
- 1960 - Landon Curt Noll, Astronomer, Cryptographer and Mathematician: youngest to hold the world record for the largest known prime 3 times.
- 1962 - Y.A. Tittle of the New York Giants became the third quarterback in NFL history to throw seven touchdown passes in one game.
- 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he had ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
- 1962 - Daphne Zuniga was born. American actress.
- 1962 - Erik Thorstvedt was born. Norwegian footballer.
- 1962 - Scotty Nguyen was born. Professional poker player.
- 1963 - James Miller was born (d. 2002). Parachutist and paraglider pilot known by the "Fan Man".
- 1963 - Verónica Gamba was born in Buenos Aires. Playmate, November, 1983.
- 1963 - Eros Ramazzotti was born. Italian pop musician, songwriter, Adesso Te.
- 1963 - Lauren Holly was born. American actress.
- 1964 - Vietnam War: U.S. officials deny any involvement in bombing North Vietnam.
- 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, is 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 the 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) stainless steel Gateway Arch monument is completed.
- 1965 - Jami Gertz was born. American actress.
- 1965 - Luigi Miraglia was born. Italian Latinist.
- 1965 - Earl Bostic died (b. 1913). American saxophonist.
- 1966 - Andy Richter was born. American comedian and actor.
- 1966 - Aris Spiliotopoulos was born. Greek politician.
- 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.
- 1967 - Kevin Macdonald was born. Scottish film director.
- 1967 - Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein was born.
- 1968 - Marc Lièvremont was born. French rugby union footballer and coach.
- 1969 - Ben Harper was born. American musician.
- 1969 - Javier Grillo-Marxuach was born. Puerto Rican screenwriter and producer.
- 1969 - Constance Dowling dies (b. 1920). American actress.
- 1970 - The land speed record set by Gary Gabelich in a rocket powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
- 1971 - Britain launches its first (and as of 2007, only) satellite, Prospero, into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket.
- 1972 - Terrell Davis was born. American football player.
- 1972 - Brad Paisley was born. American musician.
- 1973 - Alvin Burke, Jr. was born. American professional wrestler.
- 1973 - Antonio Banks was born. American professional wrestler.
- 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.
- 1974 - Dayanara Torres was born. Puerto Rican model and former Miss Universe.
- 1974 - Dejan Stefanović was born. Serbian footballer.
- 1974 - Vicente Moreno was born. Spanish footballer.
- 1974 - Braden Looper was born. American baseball player.
- 1975 - Georges Carpentier dies (b. 1894). French boxer.
- 1975 - Oliver Nelson dies (b. 1932). American jazz composer and arranger.
- 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. http://www.iltec.pt/pdf/cv/mca.pdf
- 1977 - Miguel Mihura dies (b. 21 Jun 1905). Spanish dramatist, humourist and writer.
- 1978 - Justin Guarini was born. American singer.
- 1978 - Marta Etura was born. Spanish actress.
- 1979 - Aki Hakala was born. Finnish drummer (The Rasmus).
- 1979 - Martin Škoula was born. Czech ice hockey player.
- 1980 - Alan Smith was born. English football player.
- 1980 - Christy Hemme was born. American female professioonal "wrestler".
- 1980 - Dimitri Liakopoulos was born. Greek actor.
- 1980 - Kanzi was born. Most Literate Non-Human.
- 1981 - The heavy metal band Metallica is founded in San Francisco.
- 1981 - Milan Baros was born. Czech football player.
- 1981 - Solomon Andargachew was born. Ethiopian footballer.
- 1982 - Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) wins elections, leading to first Socialist government in Spain after death of Franco. Felipe Gonzalez becomes Prime Minister-elect.
- 1982 - Jeremy Bonderman was born. American baseball player.
- 1982 - Mai Kuraki was born. Japanese singer.
- 1982 - Anthony Lerew was born. American baseball player.
- 1983 - Jarrett Jack was born. American basketball player.
- 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.
- 1984 - Amanda Paige was born. American model.
- 1984 - Obafemi Martins was born. Nigerian footballer.
- 1985 - Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and makes peace overtures to the United States; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
- 1985 - Richard Smith was born. American entrepreneur.
- 1986 - The centennial of the Statue of Liberty's dedication is re-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.
- 1988 - The French drug manufacturer Roussel Uclaf states that it will resume distribution of the so-called abortion drug RU-486.
- 1994 - Naelee Rae was born. American actress.
- 1996 - Jasmine Jessica Anthony was born. American actress.
- 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.
- 1997 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains a record 337.17 points to close at 7,498.32.
- 1997 - Paul Jarrico dies (b. 1915). American screenwriter.
- 1998 - Ted Hughes dies (b. 1930). English poet.
- 2000 - Lída Baarová dies (b. 1914). Czech actress.
- 2000 - Carlos Guastavino dies (b. 1912). Argentine composer.
- 2000 - Andujar Cedeno dies (b. 1969). Dominican baseball player for the Houston Astros.
- 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.
- 2005 - Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.
- 2005 - Eugene K. Bird dies (b. 1926). German prison director.
- 2005 - Bob Broeg dies (b. 1918). American sports writer.
- 2005 - Raymond Hains dies (b. 1926). French artist.
- 2005 - Tony Jackson dies (b. 1942). American basketball player.
- 2005 - Fernando Quejas dies (b. 1922). Cape Verdean singer and musician.
- 2005 - Richard Smalley dies (b. 1943). American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 2005 - Ljuba Tadić dies (b. 1929). Serbian actor.
- 2006 - Voting on a new constitution that would make Kosovo officially a part of Serbia begins; voter turnout on day one was low.
- 2006 - Funeral service for the peace of the executed at Bykivnia forest, outside of Kiev, Ukraine, with reburial of 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s – early 1940s.
- 2006 - Red Auerbach dies (b. 1917). American basketball coach and executive.
- 2006 - Trevor Berbick dies (b. 1955). Jamaican boxer.
- 2006 - Marijohn Wilkin dies (b. 1920). American songwriter.
- 2007 - Porter Wagoner dies (b. 1927). American country singer.
- 2009 - Taylor Mitchell dies in consequence of the atack by two coyotes one day before (b. 1990). Canadian singer.
- Feast day of Saint Jude the Thaddaeus (also known as Saint Thaddaeus).
- Feast day of Saint Simon the Canaanite.
- Czech Republic - Independence Day (from Austria-Hungary, 1918).
- Slovakia - Day of the Establishment of an Independent Czecho-Slovak State (independence from Austria-Hungary, 1918).
- Greece - Okhi (No) Day (marking the refusal of Greece to submit to Italy and the Axis Powers, 1940).
- Gifu Prefecture, Japan - Prefectural Earthquake Disaster Prevention Day.
- Dia do Funcionário Público.
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