October
28
Events
97 – Emperor
Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard, to adopt general Marcus
Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.
306 – Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
312 – Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine I defeats Maxentius,
becoming the sole Roman emperor.
456 – The Visigoths brutally sack the Suebi's capital of Braga
(Portugal), churches are burnt to the ground.
1061 – Empress Agnes, acting as regent for her son, brings about
the election of bishop Cadalus, the antipope Honorius II.
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.
1628 – The Siege of La Rochelle, which had lasted for 14 months,
ends with the surrender of the Huguenots.
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.
1664 – The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot,
later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.
1707 – The 1707 Hōei earthquake causes more than 5,000 deaths
in Honshu, Shikoku and Kyūshū, Japan
1775 – American Revolutionary War: A British proclamation forbids
residents from leaving Boston.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Plains –
British Army forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture
Chatterton Hill from the Americans.
1834 – The 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.
1835 – The United Tribes of New Zealand is established with
the signature of the Declaration of Independence.
1848 – The first railroad in Spain – between Barcelona and Mataró
– is opened.
1864 – American 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.
1886 – In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates
the Statue of Liberty.
1891 – The Mino-Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake
in Japan's history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.
1893 – Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique,
receives its première performance in St. Petersburg, only nine
days before the composer's death.
1915 – Richard Strauss conducts the first performance of his
tone poem Eine Alpensinfonie in Berlin.
1918 – World War I: Czechoslovakia is granted independence from
Austria-Hungary marking the beginning of an independent Czechoslovak
state, after 300 years.
1918 – A new Polish government in Western Galicia is established.
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.
1922 – March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini
march on Rome and take over the Italian government.
1928 – Declaration of the Youth Pledge in Indonesia, the first
time Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem, was sung.
1929 – Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929,
which also saw major stock market upheaval.
1940 – World War II: Greece rejects Italy's ultimatum. Italy
invades Greece through Albania, marking Greece's entry into
World War II.
1942 – The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through
Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.
1948 – Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize
in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal
properties of DDT.
1958 – John XXIII, is elected Pope.
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev
announces that he had ordered the removal of Soviet missile
bases in Cuba.
1964 – Vietnam War: U.S. officials deny any involvement in bombing
North Vietnam.
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 responsibility for the death of Jesus, reversing
Innocent III's 760 year-old declaration.
1965 – Construction on the St. Louis Arch is completed.
1971 – Britain 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.
1982 – The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party wins elections,
leading to the first Socialist government in Spain after death
of Franco. Felipe Gonzalez becomes Prime Minister-elect.
1990 – The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic holds the first
multiparty legislature election in the country's history.
1995 – 289 people are killed and 265 injured in Baku Metro fire,
the deadliest subway disaster.
1998 – An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot
Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan.
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 – The 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.
2007 – Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first woman
elected President of Argentina.
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.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Abdias of Babylon
Abgar V of Edessa (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Eadsige
Fidelis of Como (Roman Catholic Church)
Faro
Godwin of Stavelot
Job of Pochayiv (repose) (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Jude the Apostle (Western Christianity)
Lord of Miracles (Lima)
Simon the Zealot (Western Christianity)
October 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of the Establishment of an Independent Czecho-Slovak State,
celebrates the independence of Czechoslovakia from Austria-Hungary
in 1918. (Czech Republic and Slovakia)
International Animation Day (ASIFA)
Ochi Day (Greece, Cyprus and the Greek communities)
Prefectural Earthquake Disaster Prevention Day (Gifu Prefecture)
Youth Pledge Day or Hari Sumpah Pemuda (Indonesia)
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