Historical Events In October - 28

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

1926  Bowie Kuhn, baseball commissioner (1969-1984) on October - 28.  

1927  Josip Broz (Tito) begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia on October - 28.  

1927  Cleo Laine, Middlesex England, actress/singer (Flesh to a Tiger) on October - 28.  

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

1928  On October - 28 bradman scores 131 NSW v Queensland, 212 mins, 14 fours  

1928  On this day in history wim van Heumen, coach of Dutch field hockey team  

1929  The first child born in aircraft, Miami, Fl on October - 28.  

1929  On October - 28 dow Jones plummets 38.33 pts (13%) to 260.64  

1929  On October - 28 1st child born in aircraft, Miami, Florida  

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

1930  On this day in history harry Gilbert Trythall, composer  

1933  On this day in history the birth of Michael Noakes, Portrait and landscape painter  

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

1934  On this day in history jim Beatty, track runner (1st sub 4 minute indoor mile)  

1935  Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End," premieres in NYC on October - 28.  

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 October - 28 e G Winkler, writer, dies  

1938  On October - 28 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 this day in history the first Polish ghetto is established in Piotrkow, Poland.  

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

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

1940  On this day in history greece successfully resists Italy's attack  

1940  Andrea d' Angeli, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.  

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  U-220 sinks on October - 28.  

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

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

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 October - 28.  

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

1510  Francis Borgia, Spanish duke and Jesuit priest (d. 1572) was born on this day in history.  

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

1667  On October - 28 birth of maria Anna of Neuburg, second wife of Charles II of Spain (d. 1740)  

1689  Michel Mathieu, composer was born on October - 28.  

1691  Peder Tordenskjold, Norwegian naval hero (d. 1720) was born on October - 28.  

1697  Canaletto, Italian artist (d. 1768) was born on October - 28.  

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

0900  Alfred the Great, English monarch, dies on this day in history.  

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  On this day in history 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  Death of Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1539) on October - 28.