Page 5: Historical Events In October - 28

1925  On this day in history leonard Starr, comic strip cartoonist (Little Orphan Annie)   

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

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  On this day in history eaton Faning, composer, dies at 77   

1928  On October - 28 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 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  On October - 28 1st child born in aircraft, Miami, Florida   

1929  On October - 28 hermann Ungar, writer, dies at 36   

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

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

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

1934  Jim Beatty, track runner (1st sub 4 minute indoor mile) on this day in history.   

1935  Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End," premieres in NYC on this day in history.   

1935  Folke Rabe, composer on October - 28.   

1936  FDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary on this day in history.   

1936  On October - 28 e G Winkler, writer, dies   

1938  On October - 28 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 this day in history farewell parade of International Brigade (Barcelona)   

1939  The first Polish ghetto is established in Piotrkow, Poland on this day in history.   

1939  Anti-German demonstrations/strikes in Czechoslovakia on October - 28.   

1939  Alice Brady, actress (My Man Godfrey, Gay Divorcee), dies at 46 on October - 28.   

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

1940  Andrea d' Angeli, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.   

1942  On this day in history train crashes into bus, killing 16 & injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan)   

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

1943  On this day in history u-220 sinks   

1944  On this day in history russia & Bulgaria sign weapon pact   

1946  German rocket engineers begin work in USSR on October - 28.   

1948  On October - 28 flag of Israel is adopted   

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

1949  On October - 28 georges Bidault elected president of France   

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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 this day in history birth of cornelius Otto Jansen, France, Roman Catholic reform leader   

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

1689  On October - 28 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 this day in history.   

0312  Death of Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. c. 278) on October - 28.   

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  On October - 28 death of margaret I of Denmark, wife of Haakon VI of Norway (b. 1353)   

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)