October 28 Events AD 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 - Constantine I defeats Maxentius , becoming the sole Roman emperor in the West. 969 - The Byzantine Empire recovers Antioch from Arab rule. 1344 - The lower town of Smyrna is captured by Crusaders in response to Aydınid piracy. 1420 - Beijing is officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty when the Forbidden City is completed. 1449 - Christian I is crowned king of Denmark. 1453 - Ladislaus the Posthumous is crowned king of Bohemia in Prague. 1492 - Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World. 1516 - Ottoman–Mamluk War: Mamluks fail to stop the Ottoman advance towards Egypt at the Battle of Yaunis Khan . 1531 - Abyssinian–Adal war: The Adal Sultanate seizes southern Ethiopia. 1538 - The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino is founded in what is now the Dominican Republic. 1628 - French Wars of Religion: The Siege of La Rochelle ends with the surrender of the Huguenots after fourteen months. 1636 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony votes to establish a theological college, which would later become 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 Japan. 1726 - The novel Gulliver's Travels is published. 1776 - American Revolutionary War: British troops attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Continental Army. 1834 - The Pinjarra massacre occurs in the Swan River Colony. An estimated 30 Noongar people are killed by British colonists. 1835 - The United Tribes of New Zealand are established with the signature of the Declaration of Independence . 1864 - American Civil War: A Union attack on the Confederate capital is repulsed. 1886 - President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty . 1891 - The Mino–Owari earthquake is the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history. 1893 - Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death. 1918 - First World War: A new Polish government in western Galicia is established, triggering the Polish–Ukrainian War . 1919 - The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January. 1922 - Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government. 1928 - The "Indonesia Raya", now the national anthem, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress . 1940 - Second World War: Greece rejects Italy's ultimatum. Italy invades Greece through Albania a few hours later. 1942 - The Alaska Highway first connects Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada. 1948 - Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT . 1949 - An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashes in the Azores, killing all 48 people on board. 1956 - Hungarian Revolution: A de facto ceasefire comes into effect between armed revolutionaries and Soviet troops, who begin to withdraw from Budapest. Communist officials and facilities come under attack by revolutionaries. 1956 - Elvis Presley receives a polio vaccination on national TV. 1958 - John XXIII is elected Pope. 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis: Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba. 1965 - Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate , by which the Church officially recognizes the legitimacy of non-Christian faiths. 1971 - Prospero becomes the only British satellite to be launched by a British rocket. 1982 - The Spanish general election begins fourteen years of rule by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party . 1990 - Georgia holds its only free election under Soviet rule. 1995 - The Baku Metro fire sees 289 people killed and 270 injured. 2005 - I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is indicted due to his involvement in the Plame affair . 2006 - A funeral service takes place at the Bykivnia graves for those Ukrainians who were killed by the Soviet secret police. 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 short-lived Constellation program. 2013 - Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers at the Tiananmen Square in China. 2014 - A rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia.Births 1017 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor 1401 - Thomas St Clere , English landowner 1466 - Erasmus , Dutch philosopher 1479 - John Gage , English courtier 1510 - Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía , Spanish priest and saint, 3rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus 1550 - Stanislaus Kostka , Polish saint 1585 - Cornelius Jansen , Dutch bishop and theologian 1599 - Marie of the Incarnation , foundress of the Ursuline Monastery in Quebec 1610 - Jacob Kettler , German noble 1667 - Maria Anna of Neuburg , Queen consort of Spain 1690 - Peter Tordenskjold , Norwegian admiral 1693 - Šimon Brixi , Czech composer 1696 - Maurice de Saxe , French general 1703 - Antoine Deparcieux , French mathematician and engineer 1718 - Ignacije Szentmartony , Croatian priest, mathematician, astronomer, and explorer 1733 - Franz Ignaz von Beecke , German composer 1754 - John Laurens , American soldier 1767 - Marie of Hesse-Kassel 1793 - Eliphalet Remington , American businessman, founded Remington Arms 1794 - Robert Liston , Scottish surgeon 1804 - Pierre François Verhulst , Belgian mathematician and theorist 1815 - Ľudovít Štúr , Slovak philologist and politician 1816 - Malwida von Meysenbug , German writer 1837 - Tokugawa Yoshinobu , Japanese shōgun 1839 - Edward P. Allen, American captain, lawyer, and politician 1845 - Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski , Polish physicist and chemist 1846 - Auguste Escoffier , French chef and author 1854 - Jean-Marie Guyau , French philosopher and poet 1860 - Kanō Jigorō , Japanese martial artist 1864 - Adolfo Camarillo , Mexican-American rancher and philanthropist 1867 - Sister Nivedita , Irish-Indian nurse, author, and educator 1875 - Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor , Turkish-Canadian journalist 1877 - Joe Adams , American baseball player and manager 1879 - Channing H. Cox, American lawyer and politician, 49th Governor of Massachusetts 1880 - Wilhelm Anderson , Belarusian-Estonian astrophysicist and astronomer 1880 - Billy Wedlock , English footballer 1881 - Vin Coutie , Australian footballer 1884 - William Douglas Cook , New Zealand horticulturalist, founded Eastwoodhill Arboretum 1885 - Velimir Khlebnikov , Russian poet and playwright 1886 - Noel Macklin , English soldier and engineer 1888 - Christopher Vane, 10th Baron Barnard , English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Durham 1889 - Juliette Béliveau , Canadian actress and singer 1892 - Dink Johnson , American pianist, drummer, and clarinet player 1893 - Christopher Kelk Ingold , British chemist 1896 - Howard Hanson , American composer, conductor, and educator 1897 - Edith Head , American costume designer 1897 - Hans Speidel , German general 1901 - Eileen Shanahan , Irish poet 1902 - Elsa Lanchester , English-American actress and singer 1903 - John Chamberlain , American historian, journalist, and critic 1903 - Evelyn Waugh , English journalist, author, and critic 1904 - George Dangerfield , English-American historian, journalist, and author 1905 - Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest , Dutch mathematician 1907 - John Hewitt , Irish poet, playwright, and critic 1908 - Arturo Frondizi , Argentinian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina 1909 - Francis Bacon , Irish painter and illustrator 1912 - Richard Doll , English physiologist and epidemiologist 1914 - Glenn Robert Davis , American lieutenant and politician 1914 - Jonas Salk , American biologist and physician 1914 - Richard Laurence Millington Synge , English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1916 - Pearl Hackney , English actress 1917 - Jack Soo , American actor and singer 1919 - Walt Hansgen , American race car driver 1919 - Hans Klenk , German race car driver 1921 - Azumafuji Kin'ichi , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 40th Yokozuna 1922 - Gershon Kingsley , German-American pianist, composer, and conductor 1922 - Simon Muzenda , Zimbabwe politician, 1st Vice President of Zimbabwe 1922 - Butch van Breda Kolff , American basketball player and coach 1923 - John Connell , American actor 1924 - Antonio Creus , Spanish race car driver and motorcycle racer 1924 - Peddibhotla Suryakantam , Telugu actress 1925 - Ian Hamilton Finlay , Bahamian-Scottish poet, sculptor, and gardener 1926 - Bowie Kuhn , American lawyer and businessman 1927 - Cleo Laine , English singer and actress 1928 - Ion Mihai Pacepa , Romanian general 1928 - William Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank , English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence 1929 - Marcel Bozzuffi , French actor, director, and screenwriter 1929 - Virginia Held , American philosopher, author, and academic 1929 - John Hollander , American poet, critic, and educator 1929 - Joan Plowright , English actress 1930 - Bernie Ecclestone , English businessman 1931 - Harold Battiste , American saxophonist, pianist, and composer 1932 - Spyros Kyprianou , Cypriot lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Cyprus 1932 - Suzy Parker , American model and actress 1933 - Garrincha , Brazilian footballer 1933 - Michael Noakes , English painter and illustrator 1934 - Charles A. Gargano, American diplomat, businessman and government official 1935 - Alan Clarke , English director and screenwriter 1936 - Charlie Daniels , American singer-songwriter, fiddle-player and guitarist 1936 - Ted Hawkins , American soul-blues singer-songwriter and guitarist 1937 - Graham Bond , English keyboard player, singer, and saxophonist 1937 - Lenny Wilkens , American basketball player and coach 1938 - Keigo Abe , Japanese martial artist and coach 1938 - Kenneth Best , Liberian journalist, founded The Daily Observer 1938 - Howard Blake , English composer and conductor 1938 - Dave Budd , American basketball player 1938 - Gary Cowan , Canadian golfer 1938 - David Dimbleby , English journalist 1938 - Anne Perry , English author 1939 - Jane Alexander , American actress and producer 1939 - Andy Bey , American singer and pianist 1939 - Miroslav Cerar , Slovenian gymnast and lawyer 1939 - Curtis Lee , American singer-songwriter 1940 - Susan Harris , American screenwriter and producer 1941 - Hank Marvin , English singer and guitarist 1942 - Terence Donovan , English-Australian actor 1942 - Abdelkader Fréha , Algerian footballer 1942 - Kees Verkerk , Dutch speed skater 1942 - Gillian Lovegrove , English computer scientist and academic 1943 - Jimmy McRae , Scottish race car driver 1943 - Karalyn Patterson , English psychologist and academic 1944 - Gerry Anderson , Irish radio and television host 1944 - Coluche , French comedian and actor 1944 - Dennis Franz , American actor 1941 - Ian Marter , English actor and writer 1944 - Anton Schlecker , German businessman, founded the Schlecker Company 1945 - Sandy Berger , American lawyer and politician, 19th United States National Security Advisor 1945 - Elton Dean , English saxophonist and keyboard player 1945 - Wayne Fontana , English pop-rock singer 1945 - Don Iverson , American golfer 1946 - John Hewson , Australian economist and politician 1946 - Wim Jansen , Dutch footballer and manager 1946 - Sharon Thesen , Canadian poet and academic 1948 - Telma Hopkins , American singer and actress 1949 - Caitlyn Jenner , American decathlete and actress 1950 - Sihem Bensedrine , Tunisian journalist and activist 1950 - Ludo Delcroix , Belgian cyclist 1951 - Peter Hitchens , English journalist and author 1951 - Joe R. Lansdale, American martial artist and author 1952 - Tuck Andress , American jazz guitarist 1952 - Annie Potts , American actress 1953 - Pierre Boivin , Canadian businessman 1953 - Desmond Child , American songwriter and producer 1955 - Ronnie Bass , American football player and sportscaster 1955 - Bill Gates , American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Microsoft 1955 - Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham , English businessman, lawyer, and politician, Minister of State for Trade 1955 - Indra Nooyi , Indian-American businesswoman 1955 - Gary Lavergne , American author 1956 - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , Iranian engineer and politician, 6th President of Iran 1956 - Dave Wyndorf , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1956 - Volker Zotz , Austrian philosopher, scholar, and author 1957 - Marian Bell , English economist and academic 1957 - Stephen Morris , English drummer 1957 - Zach Wamp , American businessman and politician 1958 - Concha García Campoy , Spanish journalist 1958 - Ashok Chavan , Indian businessman and politician, 16th Chief Minister of Maharashtra 1958 - William Reid , Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist 1959 - James Keelaghan , Canadian singer-songwriter and producer 1959 - Toshio Masuda , Japanese composer 1959 - Randy Wittman , American basketball player and coach 1960 - Landon Curt Noll , American computer scientist and mathematician 1962 - Erik Thorstvedt , Norwegian footballer and manager 1962 - Daphne Zuniga , American actress 1963 - Lauren Holly , American actress 1963 - Sheryl Underwood , American comedian, actress, and talk show host 1964 - Andrew Bridgen , English soldier and politician 1964 - Peter Coyne , Australian rugby league player 1965 - Jami Gertz , American actress 1965 - David Warburton , English composer, businessman, and politician 1965 - Miyako Yoshida , Japanese ballerina 1966 - Steve Atwater , American football player 1966 - Matt Drudge , American blogger and activist, founded the Drudge Report 1966 - Andy Richter , American actor, producer, and screenwriter 1966 - Aris Spiliotopoulos , Greek politician, Greek Minister of Education and Religious Affairs 1967 - Kevin Macdonald , Scottish director, producer, and screenwriter 1967 - Julia Roberts , American actress and producer 1967 - John Romero , American video game designer, co-founded Id Software 1968 - Chris Broussard , American journalist and sportscaster 1968 - Marc Lièvremont , French rugby player and coach 1968 - Mayumi Ozaki , Japanese wrestler 1969 - Javier Grillo-Marxuach , Puerto Rican-American screenwriter and producer 1969 - Ben Harper , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1969 - Noriyoshi Omichi , Japanese baseball player and coach 1970 - Greg Eagles , American voice actor and producer 1970 - Alan Peter Cayetano , Filipino politician and Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines 1971 - Roxana Briban , Romanian soprano and actress 1971 - Caroline Dinenage , English businesswoman and politician 1972 - Terrell Davis , American football player and sportscaster 1972 - Brad Paisley , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor 1972 - Trista Sutter , American reality star 1973 - Montel Vontavious Porter , American wrestler and actor 1973 - Aleksandar Stanojević , Serbian footballer and manager 1974 - Braden Looper , American baseball player 1974 - Vicente Moreno , Spanish footballer and manager 1974 - Joaquin Phoenix , American actor and producer 1974 - Dejan Stefanović , Serbian footballer and coach 1974 - Dayanara Torres , Puerto Rican actress and singer, Miss Universe 1993 1976 - Keiron Cunningham , British rugby league player and coach 1976 - Martin Lepa , Estonian footballer 1976 - Simone Loria , Italian footballer 1978 - Justin Guarini , American singer-songwriter and actor 1979 - Natina Reed , American rapper and actress 1979 - Martin Škoula , Czech ice hockey player 1979 - Olcay Çetinkaya , Turkish footballer 1979 - Jawed Karim , American computer scientist 1980 - Christy Hemme , American wrestler and ring announcer 1980 - Agnes Obel , Danish singer-songwriter and pianist 1980 - Alan Smith , English footballer and coach 1981 - Solomon Andargachew , Ethiopian footballer 1981 - Milan Baroš , Czech footballer 1981 - Shane Gore , English footballer 1981 - Nate McLouth , American baseball player 1981 - Nick Montgomery , English-Scottish footballer 1982 - Jeremy Bonderman , American baseball player 1982 - Enver Jääger , Estonian footballer 1982 - Anthony Lerew , American baseball player 1982 - Hironori Saruta , Japanese footballer 1982 - Matt Smith , English actor and director 1983 - Jarrett Jack , American basketball player 1983 - Kayo Noro , Japanese singer and actress 1983 - Joe Thomas , English actor and screenwriter 1984 - Bryn Evans , New Zealand rugby player 1984 - Obafemi Martins , Nigerian footballer 1984 - Finn Wittrock , American actor 1985 - Tyrone Barnett , English footballer 1985 - Anthony Fantano , American music critic 1986 - Anthony Griffith , English footballer 1986 - Aki Toyosaki , Japanese voice actress and singer 1987 - Frank Ocean , American singer-songwriter 1988 - Edd Gould , English cartoonist and animator 1988 - Jamie xx , English musician, DJ, record producer and remixer 1989 - Camille Muffat , French swimmer 1991 - Lucy Bronze , English footballer 1992 - Maria Sergejeva , Estonian figure skater 1994 - Maro Itoje , English rugby union player 1995 - Glen Kamara , Finnish footballer 1996 - Jasmine Jessica Anthony , American actress 1996 - Jack Eichel , American ice hockey player 1996 - Una Raymond-Hoey , Irish cricketer 1997 - Taylor Fritz , American tennis player 1997 - Georgia Godwin , Australian artistic gymnast 1998 - Nolan Gould , American actorDeaths 312 - Maxentius, Roman emperor 457 - Ibas of Edessa , Syrian bishop 816 - Beggo , count of Toulouse and Paris 875 - Remigius of Lyon , Frankish archbishop 1138 - King Bolesław III Wrymouth of Poland 1225 - Jien , Japanese monk, historian, and poet 1266 - Saint Arsenije I Sremac 1310 - Ecumenical Patriarch Athanasius I of Constantinople 1312 - Elizabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Germany 1412 - Margaret I of Denmark 1468 - Bianca Maria Visconti , Duchess of Milan 1568 - Ashikaga Yoshihide , Japanese shōgun 1592 - Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq , Flemish diplomat 1594 - Ōkubo Tadayo , Japanese general 1627 - Jahangir , Mughal Emperor of India 1639 - Stefano Landi , Italian composer and educator 1646 - William Dobson , English painter 1661 - Agustín Moreto y Cavana , Spanish priest and playwright 1676 - Jean Desmarets , French author, poet, and playwright 1703 - John Wallis , English mathematician and cryptographer 1704 - John Locke , English physician and philosopher 1708 - Prince George of Denmark 1716 - Stephen Fox , English politician 1740 - Anna of Russia 1754 - Friedrich von Hagedorn , German poet 1755 - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier , French composer 1763 - Heinrich von Brühl , German general and politician 1768 - Michel Blavet , French flute player and composer 1787 - Johann Karl August Musäus , German author 1792 - Paul Möhring , German physician, botanist, and zoologist 1792 - John Smeaton , English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge 1800 - Artemas Ward , American general and politician 1806 - Charlotte Turner Smith , English poet and author 1818 - Abigail Adams , American writer and second First Lady of the United States 1841 - Johan August Arfwedson , Swedish chemist and academic 1857 - Louis-Eugène Cavaignac , French general and politician, 26th Prime Minister of France 1877 - Robert Swinhoe , English ornithologist and entomologist 1879 - Marie Roch Louis Reybaud , French economist and politician 1899 - Ottmar Mergenthaler , German-American engineer, invented the Linotype machine 1900 - Max Müller , German philologist and orientalist 1914 - Richard Heuberger , Austrian composer and critic 1916 - Cleveland Abbe , American meteorologist and academic 1916 - Oswald Boelcke , German WWI flying ace 1917 - Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein 1917 - Dimitrios Votsis , Greek lawyer and politician 1918 - Ulisse Dini , Italian mathematician and politician 1929 - Bernhard von Bülow , German soldier and politician, Chancellor of Germany 1936 - Newton Moore , Australian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of Western Australia 1939 - Alice Brady , American actress 1941 - Filipp Goloshchyokin , Soviet politician 1945 - Kesago Nakajima , Japanese general 1952 - Billy Hughes , English-Australian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia 1957 - Ernst Gräfenberg , German-American physician and gynecologist 1959 - Camilo Cienfuegos , Cuban soldier 1963 - Mart Saar , Estonian organist and composer 1965 - Thomas Graham Brown , Scottish mountaineer and physiologist 1969 - Constance Dowling , American model and actress 1970 - Baby Huey , American singer-songwriter 1973 - Taha Hussein , Egyptian historian, author, and academic 1973 - Sergio Tofano , Italian actor, director, and playwright 1975 - Georges Carpentier , French boxer and actor 1975 - Oliver Nelson , American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer 1978 - Rukmani Devi , Sri Lankan singer and actress 1983 - Otto Messmer , American animator and screenwriter 1986 - John Braine , English author 1987 - André Masson , French soldier and painter 1989 - Henry Hall , English bandleader, composer, and actor 1993 - Yuri Lotman , Russian-Estonian historian and scholar 1997 - Paul Jarrico , American screenwriter and producer 1998 - Ted Hughes , English poet and playwright 1999 - Antonios Katinaris , Greek singer-songwriter 2000 - Andújar Cedeño , Dominican baseball player 2001 - Gerard Hengeveld , Dutch pianist, composer, and educator 2002 - Margaret Booth , American screenwriter and producer 2002 - Erling Persson , Swedish businessman, founded H&M 2004 - Eugene K. Bird, American colonel and author, US Commandant of Spandau Prison 2005 - Bob Broeg , American soldier and journalist 2005 - Raymond Hains , French photographer 2005 - Tony Jackson , American basketball player 2005 - Fernando Quejas , Cape Verdean-Portuguese singer-songwriter 2005 - Richard Smalley , American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 2005 - Ljuba Tadić , Serbian actor and screenwriter 2006 - Red Auerbach , American basketball player and coach 2006 - Trevor Berbick , Jamaican-Canadian boxer 2006 - Marijohn Wilkin , American guitarist and songwriter 2007 - Takao Fujinami , Japanese lawyer and politician 2007 - Porter Wagoner , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 2009 - Taylor Mitchell , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist 2010 - Liang Congjie , Chinese historian and activist, founded Friends of Nature 2010 - James MacArthur , American actor 2010 - Jonathan Motzfeldt , Greenlandic politician, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland 2010 - Ehud Netzer , Israeli archaeologist, architect, and educator 2011 - Tom Addington , English soldier 2012 - Gordon Bilney , Australian dentist and politician 2012 - John Cheffers , Australian footballer and coach 2012 - Jack Dellal , English businessman 2013 - Tetsuharu Kawakami , Japanese baseball player and manager 2013 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki , Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland 2013 - Aleksandar Tijanić , Serbian journalist 2013 - Rajendra Yadav , Indian author 2014 - Galway Kinnell , American poet and academic 2014 - Michael Sata , Zambian police officer and politician, 5th President of Zambia 2018 - Colin Sylvia , Australian rules footballerHolidays and observances Christian feast day: *Abdias of Babylon *Abgar V of Edessa *Eadsige *Faro *Fidelis of Como *Firmilian *Godwin of Stavelot *Job of Pochayiv *The Apostles Simon and Jude *Lord of Miracles *October 28 Day of the Establishment of an Independent Czecho-Slovak State, celebrates the independence of Czechoslovakia from Austria-Hungary in 1918. International Animation Day Ohi Day, a national day in Greece. Prefectural Earthquake Disaster Prevention Day Youth Pledge Day or Hari Sumpah Pemuda Anniversary of the liberation of Ukraine from the Nazis, celebrating the liberation from Nazi German troops of the territory of current Ukraine
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