Page 5: 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  On this day in history josip Broz (Tito) begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia   

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  Bradman scores 131 NSW v Queensland, 212 mins, 14 fours on October - 28.   

1928  Wim van Heumen, coach of Dutch field hockey team on October - 28.   

1929  On this day in history 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  On this day in history hermann Ungar, writer, dies at 36   

1930  Harry Gilbert Trythall, composer on October - 28.   

1933  The birth of Michael Noakes, Portrait and landscape painter on October - 28.   

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

1934  Jim Beatty, track runner (1st sub 4 minute indoor mile) on October - 28.   

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

1935  On this day in history folke Rabe, composer   

1936  On October - 28 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 October - 28.   

1938  On October - 28 farewell parade of International Brigade (Barcelona)   

1939  On October - 28 the first Polish ghetto is established in Piotrkow, Poland.   

1939  On October - 28 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 October - 28 andrea d' Angeli, composer, dies at 71   

1942  Train crashes into bus, killing 16 & injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan) on this day in history.   

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

1943  On this day in history u-220 sinks   

1944  Russia & Bulgaria sign weapon pact on this day in history.   

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 October - 28.   

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 October - 28 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  Maria Anna of Neuburg, second wife of Charles II of Spain (d. 1740) was born on October - 28.   

1689  On October - 28 birth of michel Mathieu, composer   

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

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

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

0900  On October - 28 alfred the Great, English monarch, dies   

1138  On this day in history boleslaw III Kryzwousty, [scheefmond], duke of Poland, dies   

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

1312  On October - 28 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 this day in history.   

1568  Death of Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1539) on October - 28.