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October 28 is the 301st day of the year (302nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 64 days remaining.

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Events

• 306 - Maxentius is proclaimed Roman emperor.
• 312 - Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine the Great defeats the forces of Maxentius.
• 1492 - Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba.
• 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.
• 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Plains - British forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans.
• 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.
• 1886 - In New York Harbor, US President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
• 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.
• 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."
• 1936 - US President Franklin Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.
• 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.
• 1948 - Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
• 1949 - Georges Bidault becomes Prime Minister of France
• 1950 - The Jack Benny Show, starring Jack Benny, premiers (it ran for 15 years).
• 1958 - Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli becomes Pope and takes the name Pope John XXIII.
• 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he had ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
• 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.
• 1970 - Land speed record set by Gary Gabelich in a rocket powered automobile called the Blue Flame
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Births

• 1510 - St. Francis Borgia, Spanish duke and Jesuit priest (d. 1572)
• 1585 - Cornelius Jansen, French bishop and religious reformer (d. 1638)
• 1691 - Peder Tordenskjold, Norwegian naval hero (d. 1720)
• 1703 - Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (d. 1768)
• 1718 - Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian geographer (d. 1793)
• 1793 - Eliphalet Remington, American firearms manufacturer (d. 1861)
• 1804 - Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (d. 1849)
• 1846 - Georges Auguste Escoffier, French chef (d. 1935)
• 1885 - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (d. 1922)
• 1892 - Dink Johnson, American musician (d. 1954)
• 1896 - Howard Hanson, American composer (d. 1981)
• 1902 - Elsa Lanchester, British-born actress (d. 1986)
• 1903 - Evelyn Waugh, English writer (d. 1966)
• 1907 - Edith Head, American costum designer (d. 1981)
• 1909 - Francis Bacon, Irish painter (d. 1992)
• 1912 - Richard Doll, English epidemiologist (d. 2005)
• 1914 - Jonas Salk, American medical scientist (d. 1995)
• 1914 - Richard Laurence Millington Synge, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
• 1915 - Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter (d. 1997)
• 1922 - Gershon Kingsley, German composer
• 1922 - Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwean politician (d. 2003)
• 1930 - Bernie Ecclestone, English racing official
• 1932 - Suzy Parker, American actress (d. 2003)
• 1937 - Charlie Daniels, American musician
• 1938 - Anne Perry, English-born novelist
• 1939 - Jane Alexander, American actress
• 1944 - Dennis Franz, American actor
• 1948 - Telma Hopkins, American singer
• 1949 - Bruce Jenner, American athlete
• 1955 - Bill Gates, American software pioneer
• 1963 - Eros Ramazzotti, Italian singer
• 1966 - Steve Atwater, American football player
• 1967 - Julia Roberts, American actress
• 1967 - John Romero, American video game designer
• 1968 - Ben Harper. American musician
• 1972 - Terrell Davis, American football player
• 1974 - Joaquin Phoenix, Puerto Rican-born actor
• 1979 - Aki Hakala, The drummer of The Rasmus
• 1980 - Alan Smith, English footballer
• 1981 - Milan Baros, Czech footballer

Deaths

• 1225 - Jien, Japanese poet and historian (b. 1155)
• 1412 - Margaret I of Denmark, queen of Haakon VI of Norway (b. 1353)
• 1485 - Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch humanist (b. 1443)
• 1520 - Pier Gerlofs Donia, Frisian pirate and freedom fighter
• 1568 - Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1539)
• 1627 - Jahangir, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1569)
• 1639 - Stefano Landi, Italian composer (b. 1587)
• 1646 - William Dobson, English painter (b. 1610)
• 1661 - Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish playwright (b. 1518)
• 1676 - Jean Desmarets, French writer (b. 1595)
• 1703 - John Wallis, English mathematician (b. 1616)
• 1704 - John Locke, English philosopher (b. 1632)
• 1708 - Prince George of Denmark, consort of Queen Anne of England (b. 1653)
• 1716 - Stephen Fox, English politician (b. 1627)
• 1740 - Empress Anna of Russia (b. 1693)
• 1754 - Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708)
• 1755 - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (b. 1689)
• 1763 - Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (b. 1700)
• 1768 - Michel Blavet, French flutist (b. 1700)
• 1794 - John Smeaton, English civil engineer (b. 1724)
• 1800 - Artemas Ward, American politician and soldier (b. 1727)
• 1806 - Charlotte Turner Smith, English poet and novelist (b. 1749)
• 1818 - Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (b. 1744)
• 1841 - Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (b. 1792)
• 1857 - Louis Eugène Cavaignac, French soldier and politician (b. 1802)
• 1877 - Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist (b. 1835)
• 1879 - Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French writer (b. 1799)
• 1897 - Hercules Robinson, British colonial administrator (b. 1824)
• 1899 - Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-born inventor (tuberculosis) (b. 1854)
• 1900 - Max Müller, German-born orientalist (b. 1823)
• 1916 - Oswald Boelcke, German pilot (b. 1891)
• 1916 - Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (b. 1838)
• 1917 - Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (b. 1831)
• 1918 - Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician (b. 1845)
• 1929 - Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)
• 1952 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
• 1957 - Ernst Gräfenberg, German physican and scientist (b. 1881)
• 1959 - Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (b. 1932)
• 1965 - Earl Bostic, American saxophonist (b. 1913)
• 1973 - Sergio Tofano, Italian actor (b. 1883)
• 1973 - Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer (b. 1889)
• 1975 - Georges Carpentier, French boxer (b. 1894)
• 1986 - John Braine, English novelist (b. 1922)
• 1987 - André Masson, French artist (b. 1896)
• 1996 - Morey Amsterdam, American actor and comedian (b. 1908)
• 1998 - Ted Hughes, English poet (b. 1930)
• 2000 - Lída Baarová, Czech actress (b. 1914)
• 2000 - Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer (b. 1912)
• 2001 - Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch composer (b. 1910)
• 2002 - Margaret Booth, American film editor (b. 1898)
• 2002 - Erling Persson, Swedish entrepreneur (b. 1917)
• 2004 - Jimmy McLarnin, Irish-born boxer (b. 1907)

Holidays and observances

October 28th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:

• St. Jude of Thaddaeus (known also as Saint Thaddaeus)
• St. Simon of Zealot
• St. Abraham
• St. Anastasia II
• St. Anglinus
• St. Salvius
• St. Eadsin
• St. Ferrutius
• St. Fidelis of Como
• St. Godwin
• St. Honoratus of Vercelli
• St. John Dat
• St. Remigius

• Feast day of Saint Simon the Canaanite
• Greece - Oxi (No) Day
• Czechoslovakia gains its independence from Austria-Hungary.

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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