October 28
October 28 is the 301st day of the year (302nd in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 64 days remaining.
Events
306 - Maxentius is proclaimed Roman emperor .
312 - Battle of Milvian Bridge : Constantine the Great defeats the forces of Maxentius . Roman emperor Constantine converts himself and the empire to Christianity .
1492 - Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba .
1516 - Battle of Yaunis Khan : Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza .
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 .
1942 - The Alaska Highway is completed.
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.
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 )
1718 - Ignacije Szentmartony , Croat geographer (d. 1793 )
1793 - Eliphalet Remington , firearm manufacturer (d. 1861 )
1804 - Pierre François Verhulst
1846 - Georges Auguste Escoffier , chef
1875 - Gilbert Grosvenor
1879 - E.M. Forster , novelist (d. 1970 )
1892 - Dink Johnson , jazz musician (d. 1954 )
1896 - Howard Hanson , composer (d. 1981 )
1902 - Elsa Lanchester , actress (d. 1986 )
1903 - Evelyn Waugh , comic, satirical and tragic novelist (d. 1966 )
1907 - Edith Head , costumer (d. 1981 )
1909 - Francis Bacon , painter
1912 - Richard Doll , epidemiologist
1914 - Dr. Jonas Salk , medical scientist, discoverer/inventor of polio vaccine (d. 1995 )
1915 - Paul Jarrico , screenwriter (d. 1997 )
1916 - Jack Soo , actor (d. 1979 )
1922 - Simon Muzenda , Zimbabwean politician (d. 2003 )
1930 - Bernie Ecclestone , Formula 1 racing tycoon
1932 - Suzy Parker , actress
1937 - Charlie Daniels , musician
1938 - Anne Perry , novelist
1939 - Jane Alexander , actress
1944 - Dennis Franz , actor
1945 - Wayne Fontana , musician
1948 - Telma Hopkins , singer
1949 - Bruce Jenner , athlete
1955 - Bill Gates , software tycoon, co-founder and Chairman of Microsoft
1964 - Paul Wylie , figure skating champion
1966 - Steve Atwater , American football player
1967 - Julia Roberts , actress
1967 - John Romero
1972 - Terrell Davis , American football player
1974 - Joaquin Phoenix , actor
1981 - Milan Baros , Czech soccer player
Deaths
1412 - Margaret I of Denmark
1485 - Rodolphus Agricola , Dutch scholar and humanist
1520 - Pier Gerlofs Donia , pirate and freedom fighter
1661 - Agustín Moreto y Cavana , dramatist and playwright
1676 - Jean Desmarets , French dramatist
1703 - John Wallis , mathematician
1704 - John Locke , philosopher
1708 - Prince George of Denmark , consort of Queen Anne
1740 - Anna of Russia
1754 - Friedrich von Hagedorn , poet
1794 - John Smeaton , civil engineer
1800 - Artemas Ward , politician and soldier
1806 - Charlotte Turner Smith , poet and novelist
1818 - Abigail Adams , First Lady of the United States
1841 - Johan August Arfwedson , Swedish chemist
1857 - Louis Eugène Cavaignac , French soldier and politician
1877 - Robert Swinhoe , naturalist
1879 - Marie Roch Louis Reybaud , writer
1897 - Hercules Robinson , colonial administrator
1899 - Ottmar Mergenthaler , inventor
1900 - Max Müller , orientalist
1916 - Oswald Boelcke , pilot
1916 - Cleveland Abbe , U.S. meteorologist (b. 1838 )
1917 - Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg .
1918 - Ulisse Dini , mathematician
1929 - Bernhard von Bülow , Chancellor of Germany
1952 - Billy Hughes , seventh Prime Minister of Australia
1957 - Ernst Gräfenberg , physican and scientist
1959 - Camilo Cienfuegos , Cuban revolutionary
1965 - Earl Bostic , musician
1973 - Sergio Tofano , Italian actor
1975 - Georges Carpentier , boxer
1986 - John Braine , novelist
1987 - André Masson , French artist
1996 - Morey Amsterdam , actor and comedian
1998 - Ted Hughes , poet
2000 - Lída Baarová , Czech actress
2000 - Carlos Guastavino , composer
2001 - Grigori Tschuchrai , movie director
2001 - Gerard Hengeveld , Dutch composer
2002 - Margaret Booth , film editor
2002 - Erling Persson , entrepreneur (Hennes & Mauritz )
Holidays and observances
External links
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