October 28 is the 301st day of the year (302nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 64 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events [edit]

• 97 – Emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.
• 306 – Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
• 312 – Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman emperor.
• 456 – The Visigoths brutally sack the Suebi's capital of Braga (Portugal), churches are burnt to the ground.
• 969 – Byzantine general Michael Bourtzes seizes part of Antioch's fortifications. The capture of the city from the Arabs is completed three days later, when reinforcements under Peter Phokas arrive.
• 1061 – Empress Agnes, acting as regent for her son, brings about the election of bishop Cadalus, the antipope Honorius II.
• 1516 – Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza.
• 1531 – Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi again defeats the army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia. The southern part of Ethiopia falls under Imam Ahmad's control.
• 1538 – The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.
• 1628 – The Siege of La Rochelle, which had lasted for 14 months, ends with the surrender of the Huguenots.
• 1636 – A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.
• 1664 – The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.
• 1707 – The 1707 Hōei earthquake causes more than 5,000 deaths in Honshu, Shikoku and Kyūshū, Japan
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Plains – British Army forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans.
• 1834 – The Battle of Pinjarra is fought in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
• 1835 – The United Tribes of New Zealand is established with the signature of the Declaration of Independence.
• 1848 – The first railroad in Spain – between Barcelona and Mataró – is opened.
• 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road (also known as the Second Battle of Fair Oaks) ends – Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond, Virginia.
• 1886 – In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
• 1891 – The Mino-Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.
• 1893 – Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique, receives its première performance in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composer's death.
• 1904 – Panama and Uruguay establishes diplomatic links.
• 1915 – Richard Strauss conducts the first performance of his tone poem Eine Alpensinfonie in Berlin.
• 1918 – World War I: Czechoslovakia is granted independence from Austria-Hungary marking the beginning of an independent Czechoslovak state, after 300 years.
• 1918 – A new Polish government in Western Galicia is established.
• 1919 – The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
• 1922 – March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.
• 1928 – Declaration of the Youth Pledge in Indonesia, the first time Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem, was sung.
• 1929 – Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
• 1940 – World War II: Greece rejects Italy's ultimatum. Italy invades Greece through Albania, marking Greece's entry into World War II.
• 1942 – The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.
• 1948 – Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
• 1958 – John XXIII, is elected Pope.
• 1962 – End of Cuban missile crisis: Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
• 1964 – Vietnam War: U.S. officials deny any involvement in bombing North Vietnam.
• 1965 – Nostra Aetate, the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions" of the Second Vatican Council, is promulgated by Pope Paul VI; it absolves the Jews of responsibility for the death of Jesus, reversing Innocent III's 760 year-old declaration.
• 1965 – Construction on the St. Louis Arch is completed.
• 1971 – Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket.
• 1982 – The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party wins elections, leading to the first Socialist government in Spain after death of Franco. Felipe Gonzalez becomes Prime Minister-elect.
• 1990 – The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic holds the first multiparty legislature election in the country's history.
• 1995 – 289 people are killed and 265 injured in Baku Metro fire, the deadliest subway disaster.
• 1998 – An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan.
• 2005 – Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.
• 2006 – The funeral service takes place for those executed at Bykivnia forest, outside Kiev, Ukraine. 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s – early 1940s are reburied.
• 2006 – A group of angry activists of Bangladesh Awami League attacked one of their rival political party meeting in Dhaka with oars and sculls and killed their 14 activists.
• 2007 – Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first woman elected President of Argentina.
• 2009 – The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.
• 2009 – NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program.

Births [edit]

• 1017 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
• 1466 – Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch theologian and priest (d. 1536)
• 1510 – Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía, Spanish priest (d. 1572)
• 1585 – Cornelius Jansen, Dutch bishop (d. 1638)
• 1667 – Maria Anna of Neuburg (d. 1740)
• 1690 – Peter Tordenskjold, Norwegian navy officer (d. 1720)
• 1693 – Šimon Brixi, Czech composer (d. 1735)
• 1697 – Canaletto, Italian painter (d. 1768)
• 1703 – Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (d. 1768)
• 1718 – Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian missionary (d. 1793)
• 1733 – Franz Ignaz von Beecke, German composer (d. 1803)
• 1767 – Marie Sophie of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1852)
• 1793 – Eliphalet Remington, American businessman, founded Remington Arms (d. 1861)
• 1804 – Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (d. 1849)
• 1815 – Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak politician and author (d. 1856)
• 1837 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japanese shogun (d. 1913)
• 1839 – Edward P. Allen, American politician (d. 1909)
• 1845 – Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (d. 1888)
• 1846 – Georges Auguste Escoffier, French chef (d. 1935)
• 1854 – Jean-Marie Guyau, French philosopher and poet (d. 1888)
• 1860 – Jigoro Kano, Japanese martial artist (d. 1938)
• 1864 – Adolfo Camarillo, American-Mexican rancher and philanthropist (d. 1958)
• 1875 – Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, American geographer (d. 1966)
• 1877 – Joe Adams, American baseball player (d. 1952)
• 1879 – Channing H. Cox, American politician, 49th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1968)
• 1881 – Vin Coutie, Australian footballer
• 1881 – Bruno Söderström, Swedish pole vaulter (d. 1969)
• 1884 – William Douglas Cook, New Zealand horticulturalist, founded Eastwoodhill Arboretum (d. 1967)
• 1885 – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (d. 1922)
• 1889 – Juliette Béliveau, Canadian actress and singer (d. 1975)
• 1891 – Ormer Locklear, American pilot (d. 1920)
• 1892 – Dink Johnson, American pianist (d. 1954)
• 1896 – Howard Hanson, American composer (d. 1981)
• 1897 – Edith Head, American costume designer (d. 1981)
• 1901 – Eileen Shanahan, Irish poet (d. 1979)
• 1902 – Elsa Lanchester, English-American actress (d. 1986)
• 1903 – John Chamberlain, American journalist (d. 1995)
• 1903 – Evelyn Waugh, English author and journalist (d. 1966)
• 1907 – John Hewitt, Irish poet (d. 1987)
• 1908 – Arturo Frondizi, Argentine politician, 32nd President of Argentina (d. 1995)
• 1909 – Francis Bacon, Irish painter (d. 1992)
• 1912 – Richard Doll, English physiologist (d. 2005)
• 1913 – Douglas Seale, English actor (d. 1999)
• 1914 – Glenn Robert Davis, American politician (d. 1988)
• 1914 – Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (d. 1995)
• 1914 – Richard Laurence Millington Synge, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
• 1916 – Pearl Hackney English actress (d. 2009)
• 1917 – Jack Soo, American actor (d. 1979)
• 1921 – Azumafuji Kin'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 40th Yokozuna (d. 1973)
• 1922 – Gershon Kingsley, German-American composer
• 1922 – Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician, 1st Vice President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
• 1922 – Butch van Breda Kolff, American basketball player and coach (d. 2007)
• 1924 – Antonio Creus, Spanish race car driver (d. 1996)
• 1925 – Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet (d. 2006)
• 1926 – Bowie Kuhn, American lawyer and businessman (d. 2007)
• 1927 – Cleo Laine, British singer and actress
• 1927 – Roza Makagonova, Russian actress (d. 1995)
• 1928 – Iry LeJeune, American accordion player (d. 1955)
• 1928 – Ion Mihai Pacepa, Romanian general
• 1929 – Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor (d. 1988)
• 1929 – John Hollander, American poet
• 1929 – Joan Plowright, English actress
• 1930 – Bernie Ecclestone, English businessman
• 1932 – Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot politician, 2nd President of Cyprus (d. 2002)
• 1932 – Suzy Parker, American actress (d. 2003)
• 1933 – Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (d. 1983)
• 1935 – Alan Clarke, English director (d. 1990)
• 1936 – Charlie Daniels, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1936 – Carl Davis, American-English conductor and composer
• 1937 – Lenny Wilkens, American basketball player and coach
• 1938 – Kenneth Best, Liberian journalist
• 1938 – Dave Budd, American basketball player
• 1938 – David Dimbleby, English journalist
• 1938 – Anne Perry, English author
• 1939 – Jane Alexander, American actress
• 1939 – Andy Bey, American singer and pianist
• 1939 – Miroslav Cerar, Yugoslav gymnast
• 1940 – Susan Harris, American scriptwriter and producer
• 1941 – John Hallam, Irish actor (d. 2006)
• 1941 – Curtis Lee, American singer-songwriter
• 1941 – Hank Marvin, English guitarist (The Shadows)
• 1942 – Abdelkader Fréha, Algerian footballer (d. 2012)
• 1942 – Kees Verkerk, Dutch speed skater
• 1943 – Cornelia Froboess, German actress and singer
• 1943 – Charo López, Spanish actress
• 1944 – Coluche, French actor (d. 1986)
• 1944 – Dennis Franz, American actor
• 1944 – Anton Schlecker, German businessman, founded the Schlecker Company
• 1945 – Elton Dean, English saxophonist (Soft Machine) (d. 2006)
• 1945 – Wayne Fontana, English singer (The Mindbenders)
• 1946 – John Hewson, Australian economist and politician
• 1946 – Wim Jansen, Dutch footballer and coach
• 1948 – Telma Hopkins, American singer and actress (Tony Orlando and Dawn)
• 1949 – Bruce Jenner, American decathlete and actor
• 1949 – Tracy Reed, American actress
• 1950 – Sihem Bensedrine, Tunisian activist
• 1950 – Ludo Delcroix, Belgian cyclist
• 1951 – Ronnie and Donnie Galyon, American conjoined twins
• 1952 – Annie Potts, American actress
• 1953 – Pierre Boivin, Canadian businessman
• 1953 – Desmond Child, American songwriter and producer
• 1955 – Bill Gates, American businessman, co-founded Microsoft
• 1955 – Indra Nooyi, Indian-American businesswoman
• 1956 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian politician, 6th President of Iran
• 1956 – Dave Wyndorf, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Monster Magnet)
• 1956 – Volker Zotz, Austrian philosopher
• 1957 – Christian Berkel, German actor
• 1957 – Stephen Morris, English drummer (Joy Division, New Order, and The Other Two)
• 1957 – Zach Wamp, American politician
• 1958 – Ashok Chavan, Indian politician
• 1958 – William Reid, Scottish guitarist (The Jesus and Mary Chain)
• 1959 – James Keelaghan, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1959 – Randy Wittman, American basketball player
• 1960 – Mark Derwin, American actor
• 1960 – Landon Curt Noll, American computer scientist
• 1962 – Scotty Nguyen, Vietnamese-American poker player
• 1962 – Erik Thorstvedt, Norwegian footballer
• 1962 – Daphne Zuniga, American actress
• 1963 – Lauren Holly, American actress
• 1963 – James Miller, American pilot (d. 2002)
• 1963 – Eros Ramazzotti, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1963 – Sheryl Underwood, American comedian and talk show host
• 1964 – Onofrio Catacchio, Italian illustrator
• 1965 – Jami Gertz, American actress
• 1966 – Steve Atwater, American football player
• 1966 – Andy Richter, American comedian and actor
• 1966 – Aris Spiliotopoulos, Greek politician
• 1967 – Monica Chan, Hong Kong actress and model
• 1967 – Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein
• 1967 – Kevin Macdonald, Scottish director
• 1967 – Julia Roberts, American actress
• 1967 – John Romero, American video game designer, co-founded Id Software
• 1968 – Chris Broussard, American columnist
• 1968 – Caitlin Cary, American singer and violinist (Whiskeytown)
• 1968 – Marc Lièvremont, French rugby player and coach
• 1969 – Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Puerto Rican screenwriter and producer
• 1969 – Ben Harper, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Relentless7 and Fistful of Mercy)
• 1970 – Greg Eagles, American voice actor
• 1971 – Roxana Briban, Romanian doprano (d. 2010)
• 1971 – Leonidas Sabanis, Greek weightlifter
• 1972 – Terrell Davis, American football player
• 1972 – Brad Paisley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1973 – Montel Vontavious Porter, American wrestler
• 1973 – Aleksandar Stanojević, Serbian footballer and manager
• 1974 – Braden Looper, American baseball player
• 1974 – Vicente Moreno, Spanish footballer
• 1974 – Joaquin Phoenix, American actor
• 1974 – Dejan Stefanović, Serbian footballer
• 1974 – Dayanara Torres, Puerto Rican actress and singer, Miss Universe 1993
• 1976 – Keiron Cunningham, Welsh rugby player
• 1976 – Simone Loria, Italian footballer
• 1977 – Lauren Woodland, American actress
• 1978 – Marta Etura, Spanish actress
• 1978 – Justin Guarini, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1979 – Aki Hakala, Finnish drummer (The Rasmus)
• 1979 – Natina Reed, American rapper and actress (Blaque) (d. 2012)
• 1979 – Martin Škoula, Czech ice hockey player
• 1980 – Kanzi, American bonobo
• 1980 – Christy Hemme, American wrestler
• 1980 – Dimitri Liakopoulos, Greek actor
• 1980 – Agnes Obel, Danish singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1980 – Alan Smith, English footballer
• 1981 – Solomon Andargachew, Ethiopian footballer
• 1981 – Milan Baroš, Czech footballer
• 1981 – Nate McLouth, American baseball player
• 1981 – Nick Montgomery, English footballer
• 1982 – Jeremy Bonderman, American baseball player
• 1982 – Mai Kuraki, Japanese singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1982 – Anthony Lerew, American baseball player
• 1982 – Matt Smith, English actor
• 1983 – Jarrett Jack, American basketball player
• 1983 – Joe Thomas, English actor
• 1984 – Bryn Evans, New Zealand rugby player
• 1984 – Obafemi Martins, Nigerian footballer
• 1985 – Troian Bellisario, American actress
• 1986 – Anthony Griffith, English footballer
• 1986 – Aki Toyosaki, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1987 – Frank Ocean, American singer-songwriter (Odd Future)
• 1988 – Edd Gould, English animator, founded Eddsworld (d. 2012)
• 1988 – Kim Un-Guk, North Korean weightlifter
• 1989 – Camille Muffat, French swimmer
• 1992 – Lexi Ainsworth, American actress
• 1996 – Jasmine Jessica Anthony, American actress
• 1997 – Sierra McCormick, American actress

Deaths [edit]

• 312 – Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. 278)
• 457 – Ibas of Edessa, Syrian bishop
• 1225 – Jien, Japanese monk, poet, and historian (b. 1155)
• 1312 – Elizabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Germany (b. 1262)
• 1412 – Margaret I of Denmark (b. 1353)
• 1485 – Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch humanist (b. 1443)
• 1568 – Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1539)
• 1639 – Stefano Landi, Italian composer (b. 1587)
• 1646 – William Dobson, English painter (b. 1610)
• 1661 – Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish playwright (b. 1518)
• 1676 – Jean Desmarets, French writer (b. 1595)
• 1703 – John Wallis, English mathematician (b. 1616)
• 1704 – John Locke, English philosopher (b. 1632)
• 1708 – Prince George of Denmark (b. 1653)
• 1716 – Stephen Fox, English politician (b. 1627)
• 1740 – Anna of Russia (b. 1693)
• 1754 – Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708)
• 1755 – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (b. 1689)
• 1763 – Heinrich von Brühl, German politician (b. 1700)
• 1768 – Michel Blavet, French flute player and composer (b. 1700)
• 1787 – Johann Karl August Musäus, German author (b. 1735)
• 1792 – Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist (b. 1710)
• 1792 – John Smeaton, English engineer (b. 1724)
• 1800 – Artemas Ward, American politician and general (b. 1727)
• 1806 – Charlotte Turner Smith, English poet and author (b. 1749)
• 1818 – Abigail Adams, American wife of John Adams, 2nd First Lady of the United States (b. 1744)
• 1841 – Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (b. 1792)
• 1857 – Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, French general and politician, 26th Prime Minister of France (b. 1802)
• 1877 – Robert Swinhoe, English naturalist (b. 1835)
• 1879 – Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French economist and politician (b. 1799)
• 1899 – Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American inventor, invented the Linotype machine (b. 1854)
• 1900 – Max Müller, German philologist and orientalist (b. 1823)
• 1914 – Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (b. 1850)
• 1916 – Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (b. 1838)
• 1916 – Oswald Boelcke, German pilot (b. 1891)
• 1917 – Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831)
• 1917 – Dimitrios Votsis, Greek politician (b. 1841)
• 1918 – Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician (b. 1845)
• 1929 – Bernhard von Bülow, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)
• 1939 – Alice Brady, American actress (b. 1892)
• 1952 – Billy Hughes, Australian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
• 1957 – Ernst Gräfenberg, German physician and scientist (b. 1881)
• 1959 – Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary leader (b. 1932)
• 1965 – Earl Bostic, American saxophonist (b. 1913)
• 1969 – Constance Dowling, American actress (b. 1920)
• 1970 – Baby Huey, American singer (Baby Huey & the Babysitters) (b. 1944)
• 1973 – Taha Hussein, Egyptian author (b. 1889)
• 1973 – Sergio Tofano, Italian actor (b. 1883)
• 1975 – Georges Carpentier, French boxer (b. 1894)
• 1975 – Oliver Nelson, American composer (b. 1932)
• 1986 – John Braine, English author (b. 1922)
• 1987 – André Masson, French painter (b. 1896)
• 1989 – Henry Hall, English bandleader, composer, and actor (b. 1898)
• 1990 – Erich Göstl German SS officer (b. 1925)
• 1997 – Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 1998 – Ted Hughes, English poet (b. 1930)
• 1999 – Antonios Katinaris, Greek singer (b. 1931)
• 2000 – Lída Baarová, Czech actress (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Andujar Cedeno, Dominican baseball player (b. 1969)
• 2000 – Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer (b. 1912)
• 2001 – Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch composer (b. 1910)
• 2002 – Margaret Booth, American film editor (b. 1898)
• 2002 – Erling Persson, Swedish businessman, founded H&M (b. 1917)
• 2004 – Jimmy McLarnin, Irish boxer (b. 1907)
• 2005 – Eugene K. Bird, American army officer (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Bob Broeg, American journalist (b. 1918)
• 2005 – Raymond Hains, French photographer (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Tony Jackson, American basketball player (b. 1942)
• 2005 – Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean singer-songwriter (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
• 2005 – Ljuba Tadić, Serbian actor (b. 1929)
• 2006 – Red Auerbach, American basketball coach (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (b. 1955)
• 2006 – Marijohn Wilkin, American songwriter (b. 1920)
• 2007 – Jimmy Makulis, Greek singer (b. 1935)
• 2007 – Porter Wagoner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1927)
• 2010 – Liang Congjie, Chinese historian and activist, founded Friends of Nature (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Gerard Kelly, Scottish actor (b. 1959)
• 2010 – James MacArthur, American actor (b. 1937)
• 2010 – Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenlandic politician, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (b. 1938)
• 2010 – Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Gordon Bilney, Australian politician (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Jack Dellal, English businessman (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Ernst Heinrich Karlen, Swiss-Zimbabwean archbishop (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Kevin Reilly, American politician (b. 1928)
• 2012 – George Riashi, Greek bishop (b. 1933)

Holidays and observances [edit]

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Abdias of Babylon
  • Abgar V of Edessa (Eastern Orthodox Church)
  • Eadsige
  • Fidelis of Como (Roman Catholic Church)
  • Faro
  • Godwin of Stavelot
  • Job of Pochayiv (repose) (Eastern Orthodox Church)
  • Jude the Apostle (Western Christianity)
  • Lord of Miracles (Lima)
  • Simon the Zealot (Western Christianity)
  • October 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Day of the Establishment of an Independent Czecho-Slovak State, celebrates the independence of Czechoslovakia from Austria-Hungary in 1918. (Czech Republic and Slovakia)
• International Animation Day (ASIFA)
• Ochi Day (Greece, Cyprus and the Greek communities)
• Prefectural Earthquake Disaster Prevention Day (Gifu Prefecture)
• Youth Pledge Day or Hari Sumpah Pemuda (Indonesia)

External links [edit]

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