Historical Events In October - 28

1925  Leonard Starr, comic strip cartoonist (Little Orphan Annie) on this day in history.  

1926  Bowie Kuhn, baseball commissioner (1969-1984) on this day in history.  

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  On October - 28 bradman scores 131 NSW v Queensland, 212 mins, 14 fours  

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

1929  On October - 28 the first child born in aircraft, Miami, Fl  

1929  Dow Jones plummets 38.33 pts (13%) to 260.64 on October - 28.  

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

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1929  Hermann Ungar, writer, dies at 36 on this day in history.  

1930  Harry Gilbert Trythall, composer on October - 28.  

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  On October - 28 jim Beatty, track runner (1st sub 4 minute indoor mile)  

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

1935  Folke Rabe, composer on October - 28.  

1936  On October - 28 fDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary  

1936  E G Winkler, writer, dies on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

1939  On October - 28 the first Polish ghetto is established in Piotrkow, Poland.  

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

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

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

1940  On this day in history andrea d' Angeli, composer, dies at 71  

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

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

1943  On October - 28 u-220 sinks  

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

1946  German rocket engineers begin work in USSR on this day in history.  

1948  On October - 28 flag of Israel is adopted  

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

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  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 October - 28 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  On October - 28 death of maxentius, Roman emperor (b. c. 278)  

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

1138  On October - 28 boleslaw III Kryzwousty, [scheefmond], duke of Poland, dies  

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

1312  On October - 28 death of elisabeth of Tirol, German queen  

1412  On this day in history 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.