Notable Historical Events on October 28th
October 28th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
306 |
Mark Aurelius Valerius Maxentius proclaimed emperor of Rome |
312 |
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969 |
Byzantine troops occupy Antioch (in modern Syria) |
1061 |
Emperor disposes of bishop Cadalus & Pope Honorius II |
1422 |
Charles V's son succeeds him as king Charles VII of France |
1467 |
Battle at Brustem: Charles the Stoute beats the Luikenaars |
1492 |
Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba and claims it for Spain |
1516 |
Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza. |
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. |
1574 |
Prince Willem of Orange installs university |
1595 |
Battle at Giurgevo: Zsigmond Bathory of Transylvania beats Turks |
1612 |
Robert Dowland appointed court luitist of King James I |
1628 |
Hugenot bulwark La Rochelle surrenders to Cardinal Richelieu |
1636 |
Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts) founded |
1646 |
First Protestant church assembly for American indians (Massachusetts) |
1664 |
The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established. |
1740 |
Ivan VI becomes Tsar of Russia [OS=Oct 17] |
1746 |
Peruvian cities of Lima & Callao demolished by earthquake, 18,000 die |
1776 |
Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to NJ |
1790 |
New York gives up claims to Vermont for $30,000 |
1793 |
Eli Whitney applies for a patent on cotton gin |
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. |
1846 |
Pioneers suffer blizzard in Sierra Nevada; 42 die |
1848 |
The first railroad in Spain - between Barcelona and Mataró - is opened. |
1858 |
R. H. Macy & Co opens 1st store, (6th Ave-NYC) Gross receipts $11.06 |
1863 |
Battle at Wauhatchie, Georgia: 865 killed or injured |
1864 |
Second Battle of Newtonia (American Civil War), Newton County, Missouri |
1864 |
Second Battle at Fair Oaks, Virginia, ends with 1554 casualties |
1864 |
Battle of Wauhatchie, TN |
1867 |
Maimonides College in Pennsylvania is first Jewish college in the US |
1882 |
Athletics reveal $22,000 profit in their 1st season in the American Association |
1886 |
Statue of Liberty dedicated by US President Grover Cleveland, celebrated by first confetti (ticker tape) parade in New York City |
1890 |
Last NL-AA World Series game Bkln ties Louisville 3 games & 1 tie |
1891 |
Quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7,300 |
1893 |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducts first performance of his Symphony Number Six in B minor, "Pathetique" |
1894 |
German emperor Wilhelm II fires chancellor Leo von Caprivi & premier Botho zu Eulenburg |
1900 |
After over 5 months second Olympic games in Paris, France, close |
1904 |
St Louis police try a new investigation method - fingerprints |
1906 |
Belgian-British "Union Minière du Haut Katanga" mining company created in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo |
1908 |
The English Newspaper the Daily Telegraph prints an interview with Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II, who characterises himself as personally friendly to Britain but suggests the German people people are hostile, causing uproar in both countries |
1911 |
Bill Dobbie of Calgary Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game |
1914 |
German battle cruiser Goeben enters Black Sea |
1914 |
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, founded at Howard University, incorporates |
1915 |
Richard Strauss' Alpensymfonie, premieres in Berlin |
1916 |
Australian government holds a national referendum seeking support for the proposal of compulsory conscription; it is rejected |
1918 |
Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up |
1919 |
Volstead Act passed by US Congress, establishing prohibition, despite President Wilson's veto |
1921 |
Amsterdam's Tuschinski movie theater opens |
1922 |
First US coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game |
1922 |
Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government |
1924 |
French-Russian trade agreement signed |
1924 |
White Sox beat NY Giants 8-4 in Dublin, less than 20 fans attend |
1924 |
M.de Bruin, a quarry man and miner, discovers an infant fossil skull in a lime quarry in Taung, South Africa. Popularly known as the Taung child, Paleoanthropologist Raymond Dart identifies the fossil as a new hominin species called Australopithecus africanus (The Southern Africa Ape). |
1927 |
Josip Broz (Tito) begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia |
1927 |
KLM-plane "Homing Pigeon" leaves Neth-Indies after 1st regular flight |
1928 |
Bradman scores 131 NSW v Queensland, 212 mins, 14 fours |
1928 |
Indonesian child laws enforced in Bahasa Indonesia |
1929 |
Dow Jones plummets 38.33 pts (13%) to 260.64 |
1934 |
Brooklyn & Pittsburgh play a penalty free NFL game |
1935 |
Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End" premieres in NYC |
1936 |
FDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary |
1938 |
Farewell parade of International Brigade (Barcelona) |
1939 |
Anti-German demonstrations/strikes in Czechoslovakia |
1939 |
Spitfire shoots German Heinkel-111 down above Scotland |
1940 |
Greece successfully resists Italy's attack |
1940 |
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1942 |
6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery |
1942 |
Train crashes into bus, killing 16 & injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan) |
1943 |
U-220 sinks |
1944 |
Russia & Bulgaria sign weapons pact |
1946 |
German rocket engineers begin work in USSR |
1948 |
Flag of Israel is adopted |
1949 |
Georges Bidault elected president of France |
1951 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1952 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Women's Texas Golf Open |
1953 |
Bud Grant of Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record) |
1953 |
Red Barber, resigns as Dodger sportscaster to join Yankees |
1954 |
Major league owners vote down sale of A's to a Phila syndicate |
1954 |
N Richard Nash' "Rainmaker" premieres in NYC |
1954 |
Nobel prize for literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway |
1955 |
Egypt & Saudi Arabia sign defense treaty |
1956 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Luctuosissimi eventus |
1957 |
WMVS TV channel 10 in Milwaukee, WI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1958 |
Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking name John XXIII |
1958 |
Pete Runnels wins Comeback Player of Year (avg went from .230 to .322) |
1959 |
Buffalo Bills enter AFL |
1959 |
Jean Genet's "Les Negres" premieres in Paris |
1961 |
"Fiorello!" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 796 performances |
1961 |
Ground broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium for NY Mets |
1962 |
NY Giant YA Tittle passes for 7 touchdowns vs Wash Redskins (49-34) |
1962 |
Radio Moscow reports nuclear missiles in Cuba deactivated |
1962 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1962 |
Cuban missile crisis: US President Kennedy receives letter from Soviet Leaderr Khrushchev suggesting agreement |
1965 |
Gateway Arch (630' (190m) high) completed in St Louis, Missouri |
1965 |
Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion |
1966 |
Belgium's Gaston Roelants runs 12-4/5 miles in 1 hour |
1970 |
NBA Cleveland Cavaliers 1st home game, lose to San Diego 110-99 |
1970 |
US/USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts |
1971 |
Great Britain becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit |
1971 |
John & Yoko record "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in NYC |
1972 |
"Mother Earth" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 12 performances |
1973 |
Elmore Smith of Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game (NBA record) |
1973 |
Sharon Miller wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open |
1974 |
1st time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game-MacMillian & Westfall |
1974 |
Luna 23 launched (landing on Moon) |
1974 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1975 |
Calvin Murphy (Houston) begins NBA free throw streak of 58 games |
1975 |
Cleveland Metroparks assume operating responsibilities for Zoo |
1975 |
Venezuela and foreign oil companies agree on nationalization as of January 1, 1976 |
1976 |
Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (NY Yankees) |
1976 |
Train collision at Goes Neth, 7 die |
1978 |
Don Ritchie runs world record 100k (6:10:20) |
1978 |
Bobby Orr scores his last career NHL goal (vs Detroit Red Wings) |
1979 |
Dick Howser (best Yank mngr win-lost pct .636) replaces Billy Martin |
1979 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1981 |
Edward M McIntrye elected 1st black mayor of Augusta Georgia |
1981 |
NY Yankee George Frazier loses 3 World Series games |
1982 |
NASA launches RCA-E |
1982 |
Spain's socialists win/communists lose elections |
1984 |
14th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:29:30 |
1984 |
15th NYC Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:14:53 |
1984 |
Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Nichirei Cup Team Match Golf Tournament |
1985 |
Ravi Ratnayeke takes 8-83 for Sri Lanka v Pakistan |
1986 |
KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM changes call letters to KKOB |
1986 |
KOB-TV in Albuquerque NM's final transmission |
1986 |
The centennial of the Statue of Liberty's dedication is celebrated in New York Harbor. |
1988 |
Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister |
1988 |
Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gives $10 million to University of Washington library |
1989 |
Oakland A's sweep SF Giants in earthquake/BART series |
1992 |
Lee Jang Rim predicts that today would be the end of the world! |
1993 |
Cleveland Metroparks lease Brookside Park from Cleveland for 99-years |
1993 |
Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters resigns |
1994 |
Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth for 3rd time |
1995 |
Atlanta Braves beat Cleveland Indians in 6 games in World Series |
1995 |
Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cigar, Desert Stormer, Inside Information, My Flag, Northern Spur, Ridgewood Pearl, Unbridled's Song |
1996 |
Goa upset Karnataka to win their 1st Ranji Cricket Trophy game ever |
1997 |
NBA announces hiring of Dee Kantner & Violet Palmer as 1st women to officiate a major-league all-male sports league |
1998 |
An Air China (Mainland China) jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan. |
2001 |
The indie cult hit "Donnie Darko", starring Jake Gyllenhaal, is released |
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. |
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. |
2008 |
In the UK, 500,000 mortgage holders are left in negative equity after house prices drop 15% since the previous summer |
2009 |
The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213. |
2009 |
NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program. |
2012 |
Syrian ceasefire collapses and 128 people are killed in ongoing civil war violence |
2012 |
15 people are killed and 33 injured by a series of Baghdad car bombings |
2012 |
Sebastian Vettel wins the 2012 Formula One Indian Grand Prix |
2012 |
San Francisco Giants defeat the Detroit Tigers in game four to take the 2012 MLB World Series |
2012 |
Pablo Sandoval is named MLB 2012 World Series MVP. |
2014 |
Kansas City Royals defeat the San Francisco Giants 10—0 in the 6th game to tie the 2014 World Series 3-3 |
2015 |
US astronauts conclude 7-hour spacewalk, 250 miles above Earth |
2016 |
Plane With Mike Pence Aboard Skids Off La Guardia Runway |
2016 |
Clinton Reaps $53 Million in Campaign Cash in 19 Days |
2016 |
Bundy Brothers Acquitted in Takeover of Oregon Wildlife Refuge |
2016 |
World Series returns to Wrigley for first time in 71 years |
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