Page 5: Historical Events In October - 28

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

1926  On this day in history bowie Kuhn, baseball commissioner (1969-1984)   

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

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

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

1928  On this day in history 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 October - 28.   

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 October - 28.   

1934  Jim Beatty, track runner (1st sub 4 minute indoor mile) on October - 28.   

1935  On this day in history sidney Kingsley's "Dead End," premieres in NYC   

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  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 this day in history the first Polish ghetto is established in Piotrkow, Poland.   

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

1939  Alice Brady, actress (My Man Godfrey, Gay Divorcee), dies at 46 on this day in history.   

1940  On October - 28 greece successfully resists Italy's attack   

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  On this day in history 6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery   

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  Flag of Israel is adopted on October - 28.   

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

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

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1017  Henry III, Roman Catholic German emperor (1046-56) was born on this day in history.   

1510  On October - 28 birth of francisco Borgia, great grandson of pope Alexander VI/theologist/saint   

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

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  On October - 28 birth of canaletto, Italian artist (d. 1768)   

0312  Death of Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. c. 278) on this day in history.   

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

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

1225  On this day in history death of jien, Japanese poet and historian (b. 1155)   

1312  Death of Elisabeth of Tirol, German queen on this day in history.   

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

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

1568  On this day in history death of ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1539)