Historical Events In October - 28

1925  Leonard Starr, comic strip cartoonist (Little Orphan Annie) on October - 28.   

1926  Bowie Kuhn, baseball commissioner (1969-1984) on October - 28.   

1927  On October - 28 josip Broz (Tito) begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia   

1927  On October - 28 cleo Laine, Middlesex England, actress/singer (Flesh to a Tiger)   

1927  Eaton Faning, composer, dies at 77 on October - 28.   

1928  On October - 28 bradman scores 131 NSW v Queensland, 212 mins, 14 fours   

1928  On October - 28 wim van Heumen, coach of Dutch field hockey team   

1929  On October - 28 the first child born in aircraft, Miami, Fl   

1929  Dow Jones plummets 38.33 pts (13%) to 260.64 on this day in history.   

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

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

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

1933  On October - 28 the birth of Michael Noakes, Portrait and landscape painter   

1934  On this day in history brooklyn & Pittsburgh play a penalty free NFL game   

1934  On this day in history jim Beatty, track runner (1st sub 4 minute indoor mile)   

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

1935  Folke Rabe, composer on this day in history.   

1936  On October - 28 fDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary   

1936  E G Winkler, writer, dies on this day in history.   

1938  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 on October - 28.   

1938  Farewell parade of International Brigade (Barcelona) on October - 28.   

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

1939  On October - 28 anti-German demonstrations/strikes in Czechoslovakia   

1939  On this day in history 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 October - 28 andrea d' Angeli, composer, dies at 71   

1942  Train crashes into bus, killing 16 & injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan) on this day in history.   

1942  6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery on this day in history.   

1943  U-220 sinks on this day in history.   

1944  On October - 28 russia & Bulgaria sign weapon pact   

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

1948  On this day in history flag of Israel is adopted   

1949  On this day in history eugenie Anderson, the first U.S. woman ambassador, is sworn in.   

1949  Georges Bidault elected president of France on October - 28.   

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1017  On this day in history birth of henry III, Roman Catholic German emperor (1046-56)   

1510  Francisco Borgia, great grandson of pope Alexander VI/theologist/saint was born on October - 28.   

1510  On this day in history birth of francis Borgia, Spanish duke and Jesuit priest (d. 1572)   

1585  On October - 28 birth of cornelius Otto Jansen, France, Roman Catholic reform leader   

1667  On this day in history birth of maria Anna of Neuburg, second wife of Charles II of Spain (d. 1740)   

1689  On this day in history birth of michel Mathieu, composer   

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

1697  Canaletto, Italian artist (d. 1768) was born on October - 28.   

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 this day in history.   

1225  Death of Jien, Japanese poet and historian (b. 1155) on October - 28.   

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 October - 28.   

1520  On October - 28 death of pier Gerlofs Donia, Frisian pirate and freedom fighter   

1568  Death of Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1539) on this day in history.