Page 5: Historical Events In October - 28

1925  Leonard Starr, comic strip cartoonist (Little Orphan Annie)   

1926  Bowie Kuhn, baseball commissioner (1969-1984)   

1927  Josip Broz (Tito) begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia.   

1927  Cleo Laine, Middlesex England, actress/singer (Flesh to a Tiger).   

1927  Eaton Faning, composer, dies at 77   

1928  Bradman scores 131 NSW v Queensland, 212 mins, 14 fours.   

1928  Wim van Heumen, coach of Dutch field hockey team.   

1929  The inaugural child born in aircraft, Miami, Fl   

1929  Dow Jones plummets 38.33 pts (13%) to 260.64.   

1929  1st child born in aircraft, Miami, Florida   

1929  Hermann Ungar, writer, dies at 36   

1930  Harry Gilbert Trythall, composer.   

1933  Michael Noakes, Portrait and landscape painter is born.   

1934  Brooklyn and Pittsburgh play a penalty free NFL game.   

1934  Jim Beatty, track runner (1st sub 4 minute indoor mile)   

1935  Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End," premieres in NYC   

1935  Folke Rabe, composer   

1936  FDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary   

1936  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   

1938  Farewell parade of International Brigade (Barcelona)   

1939  The inaugural Polish ghetto is established in Piotrkow, Poland.   

1939  Anti-German demonstrations/strikes in Czechoslovakia.   

1939  Alice Brady, actress (My Man Godfrey, Gay Divorcee), dies at 46   

1940  Greece successfully resists Italy's attack.   

1940  Andrea d' Angeli, composer, dies at 71   

1942  Train crashes into bus, killing 16 and injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan)   

1942  6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery.   

1943  U-220 sinks.   

1944  Russia and Bulgaria sign weapon pact   

1946  German rocket engineers begin work in USSR.   

1948  Flag of Israel is adopted   

1949  Eugenie Anderson, the inaugural U.S. woman ambassador, is sworn in.   

1949  Georges Bidault elected president of France.   

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1017  Henry iii: Roman catholic german emperor (1046-56)   

1510  Francisco borgia: Great grandson of pope alexander vi/theologist/saint   

1510  Francis borgia: Spanish duke and jesuit priest   

1585  Cornelius otto jansen: France, roman catholic reform leader   

1667  Maria anna of neuburg: Second wife of charles ii of spain   

1689  Michel mathieu: Composer   

1691  Peder tordenskjold: Norwegian naval hero   

1697  Canaletto: Italian artist   

0312  Maxentius: Roman emperor (b. c. 278)   

0900  Alfred the great: English monarch,   

1138  Boleslaw iii kryzwousty: [scheefmond], duke of poland,   

1225  Death of Jien: Japanese poet and historian (b. 1155)   

1312  Death of Elisabeth of tirol: German queen   

1412  Margaret i of denmark: Wife of haakon vi of norway (b. 1353)   

1520  Death of Pier gerlofs donia: Frisian pirate and freedom fighter   

1568  Death of Ashikaga yoshihide: Japanese shogun (b. 1539)