Page 5: Historical Events In October - 28

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

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 this day in history.   

1927  On October - 28 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  The first child born in aircraft, Miami, Fl on October - 28.   

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

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

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

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 October - 28 sidney Kingsley's "Dead End," premieres in NYC   

1935  Folke Rabe, composer on October - 28.   

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

1936  E G Winkler, writer, dies on October - 28.   

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  Farewell parade of International Brigade (Barcelona) on this day in history.   

1939  The first Polish ghetto is established in Piotrkow, Poland on this day in history.   

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

1939  On October - 28 alice Brady, actress (My Man Godfrey, Gay Divorcee), dies at 46   

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

1940  On October - 28 andrea d' Angeli, composer, dies at 71   

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 October - 28.   

1943  U-220 sinks on October - 28.   

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

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

1948  On this day in history flag of Israel is adopted   

1949  Eugenie Anderson, the first U.S. woman ambassador, is sworn in on this day in history.   

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 October - 28.   

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

1689  On this day in history birth of michel Mathieu, composer   

1691  Peder Tordenskjold, Norwegian naval hero (d. 1720) was born on this day in history.   

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

0312  Death of Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. c. 278) on October - 28.   

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

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

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

1312  On this day in history 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 October - 28.   

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