28 October - Today in History - Important historical events happened on this day in India and World History
According to Gregory calendar, on October 28, the day number in a year is 301 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 302. October 28 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.
October 28 in History - Top Historical Events
| Year | Event / Incidence / Incident |
| 312 | Constantine the Great defeated Maxentius at the Battle of theMilvian Bridge in Rome. |
| 1420 | Beijing was officially designated the capital of the MingDynasty on the same year that the Forbidden City, the seat ofgovernment, was completed. |
| 1492 | The great sailor Christopher Columbus discovered the eastern coast of Cuba, after which the Spanish forces arrived in the region. |
| 1707 | The Hoei earthquake ruptured all of the segments of the Nankaimegathrust simultaneously—the only earthquake known to have donethis—with an estimated magnitude of 8.6 ML. |
| 1709 | England and the Netherlands signed the anti-France treaty. |
| 1726 | Gulliver's Travels, written by Jonathan Swift in London and published by Benjamin Mote. |
| 1791 | The Declaration of Women's Rights and the Women's Citizen were published in France. |
| 1835 | Maori chiefs signed the Declaration of the Independence of NewZealand and established the United Tribes of New Zealand. |
| 1846 | 82 people died in the Pioneer Sierra Nevada blizzard. |
| 1851 | The British Indian Association was established in Bengal. |
| 1859 | Spain declared war against the African country of Morocco. |
| 1863 | The International Red Cross Committee was formed under the conference in Geneva. |
| 1867 | Bhagini Nivedita, a disciple of Swami Vivekananda, was born in Ireland. |
| 1868 | Thomas Edison made his first patent electric vote recorder. |
| 1886 | In New York Harbor, U.S. President Grover Cleveland dedicatedthe Statue of Liberty, a gift from France, to commemorate the centennialof the Declaration of Independence. |
| 1886 | France presented the Statue of Liberty to America as a symbol of friendship. |
| 1891 | The Nobi Earthquake, Japan's largest known inland earthquake,struck the former provinces of Mino and Owari. |
| 1893 | In Saint Petersburg, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky led the firstperformance of his Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Pathétique, nine daysbefore his death. |
| 1904 | Panama and Uruguay established diplomatic relations. |
| 1913 | Jain Shwetambar Terapanthi Sabha was established. |
| 1915 | Richard Strauss conducted the first performance of his tonepoem An Alpine Symphony in Berlin. |
| 1918 | Czechoslovakia proclaimed its independence from Austria-Hungary. |
| 1918 | After the separation of Hungary and Austria, Czechoslovakia became independent. |
| 1918 | In Western Galicia Eastern Europe) a new polis government was announced. |
| 1919 | The U.S. Congress passed the Volstead Act over PresidentWoodrow Wilson's veto, reinforcing Prohibition in the United States. |
| 1921 | Tuskinski Movie Theater in Amsterdam inaugurated |
| 1929 | This day marked Black Monday which saw a major stock market turmoil, a part of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 which was to eventually lead to the Great Depression. |
| 1929 | The US stock market Wall Street collapsed. Due to which the business market fell 24 per cent. It is called the biggest decline of American history. |
| 1933 | As the population affected by poverty owing to redundancy rises, a resultant increase in disease is also observed with TB, Diphtheria, scarlet fever etc. all on the rise. |
| 1940 | Greece turns Italy's ultimatum down, marking the commencement of the Greco-Italian War and Greece’s entry into WW2. |
| 1940 | The Balkans Campaign in World War II-Italy invaded Greece after Greek prime minister Ioannis Metaxas rejected Italian dictatorBenito Mussolini's ultimatum demanding the occupation of Greekterritory. |
| 1942 | The government announces that Coffee will be rationed nationwide, starting November 28th. |
| 1944 | In the second world war, Germany's constituent Bulgaria surrendered unconditionally to the Soviet Union. |
| 1954 | The American writer Ernest Hemingway received the Nobel Prize for Literature. |
| 1965 | In St. Louis, Missouri, US, the 630-foot (190 m) tallparabolic steel Gateway Arch was completed. |
| 1971 | In a first, Britain launches a satellite atop a British rocket. The satellite, called Prospero has been launched into the Earth’s lower orbit, mounted on a Black Arrow carrier rocket. |
| 1977 | The Hong Kong police attacked the headquarters of the forces ICAC. |
| 1995 | The world's deadliest subway disaster took place in Baku,Azerbaijan, when an electrical malfunction caused a fire that killed 289passengers and injured 265 more. |
| 1995 | Fire in Baku Metro of Azerbaijan, 289 passengers died in world's worst metro accident). |
| 2001 | Islamic terrorists attack a church in eastern Pakistan, slaying 18 people who were at prayer, which included children. |
| 2004 | 4000-year-old mausoleums were unearthed in Beijing, the capital of China. EU negotiations with Iraq on nuclear issue fail. |
| 2005 | Czechoslovakia, a country located in Central Europe, gained independence. |
| 2006 | NATO makes an apology for the deaths of Afghani civilians in an air raid on Tuesday, October 24, in the province of Kandahar, laying blame on the Taliban for using common villagers as missile fodder. |
| 2007 | Israeli PM Ehud Olmert apologizes to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, his Turkish counterpart, for having possibly violated Turkey’s airspace. |
| 2009 | The first test article for NASA's Ares I rocket, Ares I-X, has been launched successfully on a suborbital test flight from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. |
| 2009 | The detonation of a car bomb by an unidentified party in Peshawar, Pakistan, killed 137 people and injured more than 200 others. |
| 2009 | Around 117 people died and 213 were injured in a suicide bombing in Peshawar city of Pakistan. |
| 2009 | The Peshawar bombings killed 117 people and injured 213. |
| 2014 | Australia banned all visas from nations affected by the Ebola virus, like Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. Although the country’s officials said that it was required to preserve public health, medical & health experts strongly criticized this policy. |
Famous Birthdays of October 28:
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
| 1968 | Chris Broussard / Journalist / United States of America |
| 1956 | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad / Politician / Iran |
| 1932 | Spyros Kyprianou / Politician / Cyprus |
| 1982 | Enver Jääger / Footballer / Estonia |
| 1986 | Aki Toyosaki / Actress / Japan |
| 1957 | Stephen Morris / Drummer / United Kingdom |
| 1945 | Elton Dean / Saxophonist / United Kingdom |
| 1924 | Antonio Creus / Racing Car Driver / Spain |
| 1976 | Simone Loria / Footballer / Italy |
| 1964 | Peter Coyne / Rugby Player / Australia |
| 1925 | Ian Hamilton Finlay / Poet / Scotland |
| 1955 | Indra Nooyi / Business Woman / India |
| 1914 | Jonas Salk / Physician / United States of America |
| 1845 | Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski / Chemist / Poland |
| 1466 | Erasmus / Philosopher / Netherlands |
| 1804 | Pierre François Verhulst / Mathematician / Belgium |
| 1935 | Alan Clarke / Writer / United Kingdom |
| 1957 | Marian Bell / Academic / United Kingdom |
| 1955 | Bill Gates / Business Man / United States of America |
| 1989 | Camille Muffat / Swimmer / France |
| 1971 | Roxana Briban / Actress / Romania |
| 1988 | Edd Gould / Cartoonist / United Kingdom |
| 1585 | Cornelius Jansen / Bishop / Netherlands |
| 1930 | Bernie Ecclestone / Business Man / United Kingdom |
| 1929 | Joan Plowright / Actress / United Kingdom |
| 1939 | Jane Alexander / Actress / United States of America |
| 1939 | Andy Bey / Singer / United States of America |
| 1939 | Curtis Lee / Writer / United States of America |
| 1979 | Natina Reed / Actress / United States of America |
| 1980 | Agnes Obel / Singer / Denmark |
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