Historical Events In October - 28

1925  On October - 28 leonard Starr, comic strip cartoonist (Little Orphan Annie)   

1926  On October - 28 bowie Kuhn, baseball commissioner (1969-1984)   

1927  Josip Broz (Tito) begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia on this day in history.   

1927  Cleo Laine, Middlesex England, actress/singer (Flesh to a Tiger) on this day in history.   

1927  Eaton Faning, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

1928  On this day in history bradman scores 131 NSW v Queensland, 212 mins, 14 fours   

1928  Wim van Heumen, coach of Dutch field hockey team on October - 28.   

1929  On this day in history the first child born in aircraft, Miami, Fl   

1929  Dow Jones plummets 38.33 pts (13%) to 260.64 on October - 28.   

1929  On this day in history 1st child born in aircraft, Miami, Florida   

1929  Hermann Ungar, writer, dies at 36 on October - 28.   

1930  Harry Gilbert Trythall, composer on this day in history.   

1933  The birth of Michael Noakes, Portrait and landscape painter on this day in history.   

1934  Brooklyn & Pittsburgh play a penalty free NFL game on this day in history.   

1934  On October - 28 jim Beatty, track runner (1st sub 4 minute indoor mile)   

1935  Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End," premieres in NYC on October - 28.   

1935  On this day in history folke Rabe, composer   

1936  On this day in history fDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary   

1936  On this day in history e G Winkler, writer, dies   

1938  On this day in history polish "Aktion." Thousands of Polish Jews are rounded up and sent back to the Polish border town of Zbonzyn. Poland expels all its German Jewish residents.   

1938  On October - 28 farewell parade of International Brigade (Barcelona)   

1939  On October - 28 the first Polish ghetto is established in Piotrkow, Poland.   

1939  On this day in history anti-German demonstrations/strikes in Czechoslovakia   

1939  On October - 28 alice Brady, actress (My Man Godfrey, Gay Divorcee), dies at 46   

1940  On this day in history greece successfully resists Italy's attack   

1940  On this day in history andrea d' Angeli, composer, dies at 71   

1942  Train crashes into bus, killing 16 & injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan) on October - 28.   

1942  On October - 28 6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery   

1943  On October - 28 u-220 sinks   

1944  Russia & Bulgaria sign weapon pact on this day in history.   

1946  On October - 28 german rocket engineers begin work in USSR   

1948  Flag of Israel is adopted on October - 28.   

1949  On October - 28 eugenie Anderson, the first U.S. woman ambassador, is sworn in.   

1949  Georges Bidault elected president of France on this day in history.   

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1017  Henry III, Roman Catholic German emperor (1046-56) was born on October - 28.   

1510  On this day in history birth of francisco Borgia, great grandson of pope Alexander VI/theologist/saint   

1510  Francis Borgia, Spanish duke and Jesuit priest (d. 1572) was born on this day in history.   

1585  Cornelius Otto Jansen, France, Roman Catholic reform leader was born on October - 28.   

1667  Maria Anna of Neuburg, second wife of Charles II of Spain (d. 1740) was born on this day in history.   

1689  Michel Mathieu, composer was born on this day in history.   

1691  On October - 28 birth of peder Tordenskjold, Norwegian naval hero (d. 1720)   

1697  Canaletto, Italian artist (d. 1768) was born on this day in history.   

0312  On October - 28 death of maxentius, Roman emperor (b. c. 278)   

0900  On this day in history alfred the Great, English monarch, dies   

1138  Boleslaw III Kryzwousty, [scheefmond], duke of Poland, dies on October - 28.   

1225  Death of Jien, Japanese poet and historian (b. 1155) on this day in history.   

1312  On this day in history death of elisabeth of Tirol, German queen   

1412  Death of Margaret I of Denmark, wife of Haakon VI of Norway (b. 1353) on this day in history.   

1520  Death of Pier Gerlofs Donia, Frisian pirate and freedom fighter on October - 28.   

1568  On October - 28 death of ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1539)