Page 5: Historical Events In October - 28

1925  Leonard Starr, comic strip cartoonist (Little Orphan Annie) on October - 28.   

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  On October - 28 cleo Laine, Middlesex England, actress/singer (Flesh to a Tiger)   

1927  Eaton Faning, composer, dies at 77 on October - 28.   

1928  Bradman scores 131 NSW v Queensland, 212 mins, 14 fours on this day in history.   

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

1929  Hermann Ungar, writer, dies at 36 on October - 28.   

1930  Harry Gilbert Trythall, composer on October - 28.   

1933  On October - 28 the birth of Michael Noakes, Portrait and landscape painter   

1934  Brooklyn & Pittsburgh play a penalty free NFL game on October - 28.   

1934  Jim Beatty, track runner (1st sub 4 minute indoor mile) on this day in history.   

1935  Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End," premieres in NYC on this day in history.   

1935  Folke Rabe, composer on this day in history.   

1936  On this day in history fDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary   

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

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  On this day in history farewell parade of International Brigade (Barcelona)   

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

1939  On this day in history anti-German demonstrations/strikes in Czechoslovakia   

1939  On this day in history alice Brady, actress (My Man Godfrey, Gay Divorcee), dies at 46   

1940  Greece successfully resists Italy's attack on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1942  On October - 28 6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery   

1943  On this day in history u-220 sinks   

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

1946  On October - 28 german rocket engineers begin work in USSR   

1948  Flag of Israel is adopted on October - 28.   

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 this day in history.   

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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 October - 28.   

1510  On this day in history birth of francis Borgia, Spanish duke and Jesuit priest (d. 1572)   

1585  On this day in history birth of cornelius Otto Jansen, France, Roman Catholic reform leader   

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

1689  Michel Mathieu, composer was born on this day in history.   

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

1697  Canaletto, Italian artist (d. 1768) was born on this day in history.   

0312  On October - 28 death of maxentius, Roman emperor (b. c. 278)   

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  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  Death of Margaret I of Denmark, wife of Haakon VI of Norway (b. 1353) on this day in history.   

1520  Death of Pier Gerlofs Donia, Frisian pirate and freedom fighter on this day in history.   

1568  On October - 28 death of ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1539)