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  On this day in history josip Broz (Tito) begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia  

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  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 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  On October - 28 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 October - 28.  

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  On this day in history folke Rabe, composer  

1936  FDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary on October - 28.  

1936  On October - 28 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  Farewell parade of International Brigade (Barcelona) on October - 28.  

1939  The first Polish ghetto is established in Piotrkow, Poland on October - 28.  

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

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  On October - 28 andrea d' Angeli, composer, dies at 71  

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

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

1943  U-220 sinks on October - 28.  

1944  Russia & Bulgaria sign weapon pact on October - 28.  

1946  On this day in history german rocket engineers begin work in USSR  

1948  On this day in history flag of Israel is adopted  

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

1949  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

1510  Francis Borgia, Spanish duke and Jesuit priest (d. 1572) was born on October - 28.  

1585  Cornelius Otto Jansen, France, Roman Catholic reform leader was born on this day in history.  

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

1689  On October - 28 birth of michel Mathieu, composer  

1691  On this day in history birth of peder Tordenskjold, Norwegian naval hero (d. 1720)  

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

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

0900  Alfred the Great, English monarch, dies on October - 28.  

1138  On this day in history boleslaw III Kryzwousty, [scheefmond], duke of Poland, dies  

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

1312  On October - 28 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 this day in history.  

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