Page 5: Historical Events In October - 28

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

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

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 October - 28.   

1927  On this day in history eaton Faning, composer, dies at 77   

1928  Bradman scores 131 NSW v Queensland, 212 mins, 14 fours on this day in history.   

1928  Wim van Heumen, coach of Dutch field hockey team on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

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

1930  On October - 28 harry Gilbert Trythall, composer   

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  Jim Beatty, track runner (1st sub 4 minute indoor mile) on October - 28.   

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

1935  Folke Rabe, composer on this day in history.   

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

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

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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1940  Greece successfully resists Italy's attack on October - 28.   

1940  Andrea d' Angeli, composer, dies at 71 on October - 28.   

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 this day in history.   

1943  On this day in history u-220 sinks   

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

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

1948  Flag of Israel is adopted on this day in history.   

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

1949  On October - 28 georges Bidault elected president of France   

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1017  On October - 28 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  Cornelius Otto Jansen, France, Roman Catholic reform leader was born on this day in history.   

1667  Maria Anna of Neuburg, second wife of Charles II of Spain (d. 1740) was born on October - 28.   

1689  On October - 28 birth of michel Mathieu, composer   

1691  Peder Tordenskjold, Norwegian naval hero (d. 1720) was born on October - 28.   

1697  On this day in history birth of canaletto, Italian artist (d. 1768)   

0312  On this day in history death of maxentius, Roman emperor (b. c. 278)   

0900  On October - 28 alfred the Great, English monarch, dies   

1138  Boleslaw III Kryzwousty, [scheefmond], duke of Poland, dies on this day in history.   

1225  On October - 28 death of jien, Japanese poet and historian (b. 1155)   

1312  Death of Elisabeth of Tirol, German queen on October - 28.   

1412  On this day in history death of margaret I of Denmark, wife of Haakon VI of Norway (b. 1353)   

1520  On this day in history death of pier Gerlofs Donia, Frisian pirate and freedom fighter   

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