What happened on October 28? There are more than 292 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About October 28
October 28 is the 302nd day of the year 2024. There are 64 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday. This day falls under the 44th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Beaufort, North Carolina 28516 sunrise will occur at 07:22 AM and sunset will occur at 06:17 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Scorpio. The modern birthstone for this month is Opal while the mystical birthstone is Jasper.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 93 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For October 28
- 97Emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard, to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.
- 306Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
- 312Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman Emperor.
- 1061Empress Agnes, acting as Regent for her son, brings about the election of Bishop Cadalus, the Antipope Honorius II.
- 1516Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza.
- 1531Battle 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.
- 1538The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.
- 1628The Siege of La Rochelle, which had lasted for 14 months, ends with the surrender of the Huguenots.
- 1636A 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.
- 1664The Duke of York and Albany’s Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.
- 1707The 1707 Hōei earthquake causes more than 5,000 deaths in Honshu, Shikoku and Kyūshū, Japan
- 1775American Revolutionary War: A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston.
- 1776American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Plains – British Army forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans.
- 1834The Battle of Pinjarra is fought in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
- 1835The United Tribes of New Zealand is established with the signature of the Declaration of Independence.
- 1848The first railroad in Spain – between Barcelona and Mataró – is opened.
- 1864American Civil War: The Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road (also known as the 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.
- 1886In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
- 1891The Mino-Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan’s history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.
- 1893Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique, receives its première performance in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composer’s death.
- 1915Richard Strauss conducts the first performance of his tone poem Eine Alpensinfonie in Berlin.
- 1918A new Polish government in Western Galicia is established.
- 1918World War I: Czechoslovakia is granted independence from Austria-Hungary marking the beginning of an independent Czechoslovak state, after 300 years.
- 1919The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
- 1922March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.
- 1928Declaration of the Youth Pledge in Indonesia, the first time Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem, was sung.
- 1929Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
- 1940World War II: Greece rejects Italy’s ultimatum. Italy invades Greece through Albania, marking Greece’s entry into World War II.
- 1942The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.
- 1948Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
- 1958John XXIII, is elected Pope.
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he had ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
- 1964Vietnam War: U.S. officials deny any involvement in bombing North Vietnam.
- 1965Nostra 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 responsibility for the death of Jesus, reversing Innocent III’s 760 year-old declaration.
- 1965Construction on the St. Louis Arch is completed.
- 1971Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket.
- 1982The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party wins elections, leading to the first Socialist government in Spain after death of Franco. Felipe Gonzalez becomes Prime Minister-elect.
- 1995289 people are killed and 265 injured in Baku Metro fire, the deadliest subway disaster.
- 1998An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan.
- 2005Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.
- 2006The funeral service takes place for those executed at Bykivnia forest, outside Kiev, Ukraine. 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s – early 1940s are reburied.
- 2007Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first woman elected President of Argentina.
- 2009NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program.
- 2009The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.
Who Were Born On October 28?
- 1466Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, Dutch theologian and Catholic priest (d. 1536)
- 1510Francis Borgia, Spanish duke and Jesuit priest (d. 1572)
- 1585Cornelius Jansen, Dutch bishop (d. 1638)
- 1667Maria Anna of Neuburg, second wife of Charles II of Spain (d. 1740)
- 1691Peder Tordenskjold, Norwegian naval hero (d. 1720)
- 1697Canaletto, Italian artist (d. 1768)
- 1703Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (d. 1768)
- 1718Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary (d. 1793)
- 1767Queen Marie Sophie of Hesse-Kassel of Denmark and Norway (d. 1852)
- 1793Eliphalet Remington, American firearms manufacturer (d. 1861)
- 1804Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (d. 1849)
- 1818Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883)
- 1837Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japanese shogun (d. 1913)
- 1839Edward P. Allen, American politician (d. 1909)
- 1845Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (d. 1888)
- 1846Georges Auguste Escoffier, French chef (d. 1935)
- 1854Jean-Marie Guyau, French philosopher and poet (d. 1888)
- 1860Jigoro Kano, Japanese martial artist (d. 1938)
- 1864Adolfo Camarillo, American-born Mexican land owner and rancher (d. 1958)
- 1875Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, American geographer and editor (d. 1966)
- 1877Joe Adams, American baseball player (d. 1952)
- 1879Channing H. Cox, American politician (d. 1968)
- 1881Bruno Söderström, Swedish athlete (d. 1969)
- 1881Vin Coutie, Australian footballer
- 1884William Douglas Cook, New Zealander horticulturalist (d. 1967)
- 1885Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (d. 1922)
- 1889Juliette Béliveau, Quebec comedian (d. 1975)
- 1891Ormer Locklear, American movie stunt pilot (d. 1920)
- 1892Dink Johnson, American musician (d. 1954)
- 1896Howard Hanson, American composer (d. 1981)
- 1897Edith Head, American costume designer (d. 1981)
- 1901Eileen Shanahan, Irish poet (d. 1979)
- 1902Elsa Lanchester, British-born actress (d. 1986)
- 1903Evelyn Waugh, English writer (d. 1966)
- 1907John Hewitt, Northern Irish poet (d. 1987)
- 1908Arturo Frondizi, Argentine politician (d. 1995)
- 1909Francis Bacon, Irish painter (d. 1992)
- 1912Richard Doll, English epidemiologist (d. 2005)
- 1913Douglas Seale, English actor (d. 1999)
- 1914Glenn Robert Davis, American politician (d. 1988)
- 1914Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (d. 1995)
- 1914Richard Laurence Millington Synge, British biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)
- 1917Jack Soo, American actor (d. 1979)
- 1921Azumafuji Kin'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler (the 40th Yokozuna) (d. 1973)
- 1922Butch van Breda Kolff, American basketball coach (d. 2007)
- 1922Gershon Kingsley, German composer
- 1922Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician (d. 2003)
- 1924Antonio Creus, Spanish racecar driver (d. 1996)
- 1925Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (d. 2006)
- 1926Bowie Kuhn, American baseball executive (d. 2007)
- 1927Cleo Laine, British singer
- 1927Roza Makagonova, Russian actress (d. 1995)
- 1928Ion Mihai Pacepa, Romanian general
- 1928Iry LeJeune, American musician (d. 1955)
- 1929Joan Plowright, British actress
- 1929John Hollander, American poet
- 1929Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor (d. 1988)
- 1930Bernie Ecclestone, English motorsports figure
- 1932Spyros Kyprianou, Cyprian politician (d. 2002)
- 1932Suzy Parker, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1933Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (d. 1983)
- 1935Alan Clarke, British film director (d. 1990)
- 1936Carl Davis, American-born British conductor and composer
- 1936Charlie Daniels, American musician
- 1937Lenny Wilkens, American basketball player and coach
- 1938Anne Perry, English-born novelist
- 1938Dave Budd, American basketball player
- 1938David Dimbleby, English television commentator
- 1939Andy Bey, jazz singer and pianist
- 1939Jane Alexander, American actress
- 1939Miroslav Cerar, Yugoslav gymnast
- 1940Susan Harris, American television writer and producer
- 1941Curtis Lee, American singer
- 1941Hank Marvin, English guitarist
- 1941John Hallam, Irish actor (d. 2006)
- 1942Kees Verkerk, Dutch speed skater
- 1943Charo López, Spanish actress
- 1943Conny Froboess, German singer
- 1944Anton Schlecker, German businessman
- 1944Coluche, French comedian and actor (d. 1986)
- 1944Dennis Franz, American actor
- 1945Elton Dean, English musician (Soft Machine) (d. 2006)
- 1945Wayne Fontana, British singer (The Mindbenders)
- 1946John Hewson, Australian politician
- 1946Wim Jansen, Dutch footballer and coach
- 1948Telma Hopkins, American singer and actress (Tony Orlando and Dawn)
- 1949Bruce Jenner, American athlete
- 1949Tracy Reed, American actress
- 1950Ludo Delcroix, Belgian cyclist
- 1950Sihem Bensedrine, Tunisian human rights activist
- 1952Annie Potts, American actress
- 1953Desmond Child, American songwriter
- 1953Pierre Boivin, Canadian businessman and hockey executive
- 1955Bill Gates, American software executive
- 1955Indra Nooyi, Indian born American Corporate Leader, PepsiCo CEO
- 1956Dave Wyndorf, American singer (Monster Magnet)
- 1956Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian politician
- 1956Volker Zotz, Austrian philosopher
- 1957Stephen Morris, British musician (Joy Division and New Order)
- 1957Zach Wamp, American politician
- 1958Ashok Chavan, Indian politician
- 1958William Reid, Scottish musician (The Jesus and Mary Chain)
- 1959James Keelaghan, Canadian folk singer-songwriter
- 1959Randy Wittman, American basketball player
- 1960Landon Curt Noll, American computer scientist
- 1960Mark Derwin, American actor
- 1962Daphne Zuniga, American actress
- 1962Erik Thorstvedt, Norwegian footballer
- 1962Scotty Nguyen, Vietnamese-born American professional poker player
- 1963Eros Ramazzotti, Italian singer
- 1963James Miller, American parachutist and paraglider pilot (d. 2002)
- 1963Lauren Holly, American actress
- 1963Sheryl Underwood, American comedian
- 1965Jami Gertz, American actress
- 1966Andy Richter, American comedian and actor
- 1966Aris Spiliotopoulos, Greek politician
- 1966Steve Atwater, American football player
- 1967John Romero, American video game designer
- 1967Julia Roberts, American actress
- 1967Kevin Macdonald, Scottish film director
- 1967Monica Chan, Hong Kong actress and beauty pageant winner
- 1967Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein
- 1968Caitlin Cary, alt-country singer & violin player, former member of Whiskeytown
- 1968Marc Lièvremont, French rugby union footballer and coach
- 1969Ben Harper, American musician
- 1969Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Puerto Rican screenwriter and producer
- 1970Greg Eagles, American voice actor
- 1971Leonidas Sabanis, Greek weightlifter
- 1971Roxana Briban, Romanian Soprano
- 1972Brad Paisley, American musician
- 1972Terrell Davis, American football player
- 1973Aleksandar Stanojević, Serbian football manager and former player
- 1973Hassan Assad, American professional wrestler
- 1974Braden Looper, American baseball player
- 1974Dayanara Torres, Puerto Rican actress and beauty queen
- 1974Dejan Stefanović, Serbian footballer
- 1974Joaquin Phoenix, American actor
- 1974Vicente Moreno, Spanish footballer
- 1976Keiron Cunningham, Welsh rugby league player
- 1976Simone Loria, Italian footballer
- 1977Lauren Woodland, American actress
- 1978Justin Guarini, American singer
- 1978Marta Etura, Spanish actress
- 1979Aki Hakala, Finnish musician
- 1979Martin Škoula, Czech ice hockey player
- 1980Alan Smith, English footballer
- 1980Christy Hemme, American professional wrestler
- 1980Dimitri Liakopoulos, Greek actor
- 1980Kanzi, American bonobo
- 1981Milan Baroš, Czech footballer
- 1981Nate McLouth, American baseball player
- 1981Nick Montgomery, English footballer
- 1981Solomon Andargachew, Ethiopian footballer
- 1982Anthony Lerew, American baseball player
- 1982Jeremy Bonderman, American baseball player
- 1982Mai Kuraki, Japanese singer
- 1982Matt Smith, English actor
- 1983Jarrett Jack, American basketball player
- 1983Joe Thomas, English actor
- 1984Bryn Evans, New Zealand rugby player
- 1984Obafemi Martins, Nigerian footballer
- 1985Troian Bellisario, American actress
- 1986Anthony Griffith, English footballer
- 1987Frank Ocean, American singer-songwriter
- 1988Devon Murray, Irish singer and actor
- 1992Lexi Ainsworth, American actress
Who Died On October 28?
- 312Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. c.278)
- 1225Jien, Japanese poet and historian (b. 1155)
- 1312Queen Elisabeth of Tirol (b. 1262)
- 1412Margaret I of Denmark, wife of Haakon VI of Norway (b. 1353)
- 1485Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch humanist (b. 1443)
- 1520Pier Gerlofs Donia, Frisian pirate (b. 1480)
- 1568Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1539)
- 1627Emperor Jahangir of India (b. 1569)
- 1639Stefano Landi, Italian composer (b. 1587)
- 1646William Dobson, English painter (b. 1610)
- 1661Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish playwright (b. 1518)
- 1676Jean Desmarets, French writer (b. 1595)
- 1703John Wallis, English mathematician (b. 1616)
- 1704John Locke, English philosopher (b. 1632)
- 1708Prince George of Denmark, consort of Anne of England (b. 1653)
- 1716Stephen Fox, British politician (b. 1627)
- 1740Empress Anna of Russia (b. 1693)
- 1754Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708)
- 1755Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (b. 1689)
- 1763Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (b. 1700)
- 1768Michel Blavet, French flutist (b. 1700)
- 1792John Smeaton, British civil engineer (b. 1724)
- 1792Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist (b. 1710)
- 1800Artemas Ward, American politician and soldier (b. 1727)
- 1806Charlotte Turner Smith, British poet and novelist (b. 1749)
- 1818Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (b. 1744)
- 1841Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (b. 1792)
- 1857Louis Eugène Cavaignac, French soldier and politician (b. 1802)
- 1877Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist (b. 1835)
- 1879Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French writer (b. 1799)
- 1899Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-born inventor (b. 1854)
- 1900Friedrich Max Müller, German-born orientalist (b. 1823)
- 1914Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer, music critic and teacher (b. 1850)
- 1916Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (b. 1838)
- 1916Oswald Boelcke, German WWI pilot (b. 1891)
- 1917Dimitrios Votsis, Greek politician (b. 1841)
- 1917Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (b. 1831)
- 1918Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician (b. 1845)
- 1929Bernhard von Bülow, German statesman (b. 1849)
- 1939Alice Brady, American actress (b. 1892)
- 1952Billy Hughes, Australian politician (b. 1862)
- 1957Ernst Gräfenberg, German physician and scientist (b. 1881)
- 1959Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary figure (b. 1932)
- 1965Earl Bostic, American saxophonist (b. 1913)
- 1969Constance Dowling, American actress (b. 1920)
- 1970Baby Huey, American soul singer (b. 1944)
- 1973Sergio Tofano, Italian actor (b. 1883)
- 1973Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer (b. 1889)
- 1975Georges Carpentier, French boxer (b. 1894)
- 1975Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger (b. 1932)
- 1980Gregory Bateson, English anthropologist (b. 1904)
- 1986John Braine, British novelist (b. 1922)
- 1987André Masson, French artist (b. 1896)
- 1989Henry Hall, British bandleader (b. 1898)
- 1990Erich Göstl German WWII figure (b. 1925)
- 1997Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
- 1998Ted Hughes, British poet (b. 1930)
- 1999Antonis Katinaris, Greek musician (b. 1931)
- 2000Andujar Cedeno, Dominican baseball player (b. 1969)
- 2000Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer (b. 1912)
- 2000Lída Baarová, Czech actress (b. 1914)
- 2001Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch composer (b. 1910)
- 2002Erling Persson, Swedish entrepreneur (b. 1917)
- 2002Margaret Booth, American film editor (b. 1898)
- 2004Jimmy McLarnin, Northern Irish-born boxer (b. 1907)
- 2005Bob Broeg, American sports writer (b. 1918)
- 2005Eugene K. Bird, German prison director (b. 1926)
- 2005Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean singer and musician (b. 1922)
- 2005Ljuba Tadić, Serbian actor (b. 1929)
- 2005Raymond Hains, French artist (b. 1926)
- 2005Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
- 2005Tony Jackson, American basketball player (b. 1942)
- 2006Marijohn Wilkin, American songwriter (b. 1920)
- 2006Red Auerbach, American basketball coach and executive (b. 1917)
- 2006Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (b. 1955)
- 2007Jimmy Makulis, Greek singer (b. 1935)
- 2007Porter Wagoner, American country singer (b. 1927)
- 2010Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist (b. 1934)
- 2010Gerard Kelly, Scottish actor (b. 1959)
- 2010James MacArthur, American actor (b. 1937)
- 2010Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenlander statesman (b. 1938)
- 2010Liang Congjie, Chinese environmentalist (b. 1932)
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