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This day in history: 28 October

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414 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 28 October.
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2025: Hurricane Melissa makes landfall near Black River, Jamaica, killing over 30 people, as well as tying the 1935 Labor Day hurricane as the most intense landfall in the North Atlantic.

Holidays and observances

Anniversary of the liberation of Ukraine from the Nazis, celebrating the liberation from Nazi German troops of the territory of current Ukraine

Christian feast day: Abdias of Babylon

Christian feast day: Abgar V of Edessa (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Christian feast day: Eadsige

Christian feast day: Faro

Christian feast day: Fidelis of Como (Roman Catholic Church)

Christian feast day: Firmilian

Christian feast day: Godwin of Stavelot

Christian feast day: Job of Pochayiv (repose) (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Christian feast day: Lord of Miracles (Lima)

Christian feast day: October 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: The Apostles Simon and Jude (Western Christianity)

Events

2025Hurricane Melissa makes landfall near Black River, Jamaica, killing over 30 people, as well as tying the 1935 Labor Day hurricane as the most intense landfall in the North Atlantic.

2023The 2023 Rugby World Cup final is held at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France. It saw South Africa defeat New Zealand 12 to 11, claiming their fourth Webb Ellis Cup, becoming the first nation to do so.

2018Jair Bolsonaro is elected president of Brazil with 57 million votes, with Workers' Party candidate Fernando Haddad as the runner-up. It is the first time in 16 years that a Workers' Party candidate is not elected president.

2014A rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops Island, Virginia.

2013Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers at Tiananmen Square in China.

2009NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its short-lived Constellation program.

2009The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.

2009US President Barack Obama signs the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.

2007Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first directly elected female President of Argentina.

2006A funeral service takes place at the Bykivnia graves for Ukrainians who were killed by the Soviet secret police.

1995The Baku Metro fire sees 289 people killed and 270 injured.

1990Georgia holds its only free election under Soviet rule.

1989Aloha Island Air Flight 1712, a Twin Otter 300, crashed into terrain at night in Hawaii killing all 20 occupants onboard.

1982The Spanish general election begins fourteen years of rule by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.

1971Prospero becomes the only British satellite to be launched by a British rocket.

1965Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate, by which the Roman Catholic Church officially recognizes the legitimacy of non-Christian faiths.

1962The Cuban Missile Crisis ends and Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.

1958John XXIII is elected Pope.

1956Hungarian Revolution: A de facto ceasefire comes into effect between armed revolutionaries and Soviet troops, who begin to withdraw from Budapest. Communist officials and facilities come under attack by revolutionaries.

1954Aeroflot Flight 136 crashes near Krasnoyarsk, killing 19.

1949An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashes in the Azores, killing all 48 people on board.

1948Ecological disaster in Donora, Pennsylvania.

1948Paul Hermann Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.

1942The Alaska Highway first connects Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada.

1940World War II: Greece rejects Italy's ultimatum. Italy invades Greece through Albania a few hours later.

1928Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem of Indonesia, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.

1922Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.

1919The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.

1918World War I: A new Polish government in western Galicia is established, triggering the Polish–Ukrainian War.

1918World War I: Czech politicians peacefully take over the city of Prague, thus establishing the First Czechoslovak Republic.

1893Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death.

1891The Mino–Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history, occurs.

1886US president Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.

1864American Civil War: A Union attack on the Confederate capital of Richmond is repulsed.

1835The United Tribes of New Zealand are established with the signature of the Declaration of Independence.

1834The Pinjarra massacre occurs in the Swan River Colony. An estimated 30 Noongar people are killed by British colonists.

1776American Revolutionary War: British troops under General William Howe attack General George Washington's Continental Army and capture Chatterton Hill in the Battle of White Plains during the New York and New Jersey campaign.

1746The 1746 Lima–Callao earthquake causes up to 6,000 deaths in Peru, the deadliest in its history up to that point.

1726The novel Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift is published.

1707The 1707 Hōei earthquake causes more than 5,000 deaths in Japan.

Born on this day

2006Yoon Do-young, South Korean footballer

2001Sonay Kartal, British tennis player

1998Nolan Gould, American actor

1997Georgia Godwin, Australian artistic gymnast

1997Stetson Bennett, American football player

1997Taylor Fritz, American tennis player

1996Jack Eichel, American ice hockey player

1996Jasmine Jessica Anthony, American actress

1996Una Raymond-Hoey, Irish cricketer

1995An Ye-seul, South Korean singer

1995Glen Kamara, Finnish footballer

1995Jae'Sean Tate, American basketball player

1994Andrew Harrison, American basketball player

1992Jeon Ji-hee, South Korean table tennis player

1992Lexi Ainsworth, American actress

1992Maria Sergejeva, Estonian figure skater

1991Lucy Bronze, English footballer

1989Camille Muffat, French swimmer (died 2015)

1989Devin Ebanks, American basketball player

1988Devon Murray, Irish actor

1988Edd Gould, English cartoonist and animator (died 2012)

1988Jamie xx, English musician, DJ, record producer and remixer

1987Frank Ocean, American singer-songwriter

1986Aki Toyosaki, Japanese voice actress and singer

1986Anthony Griffith, English footballer

1986Isabelle Eriksson, Swedish athlete

1986May Calamawy, Egyptian-Palestinian actress

1985Anthony Fantano, American music critic

1985Troian Bellisario, American actress

1985Tyrone Barnett, English footballer

1984Bryn Evans, New Zealand rugby player

1984Finn Wittrock, American actor

1984Obafemi Martins, Nigerian footballer

1983Jarrett Jack, American basketball player

1983Joe Thomas, English actor and screenwriter

1983Kayo Noro, Japanese singer and actress

1982Anthony Lerew, American baseball player

1982Enver Jääger, Estonian footballer

1982Hironori Saruta, Japanese footballer

1982Jeremy Bonderman, American baseball player

Died on this day

2024Jamshid Sharmahd, German-American affiliate of Kingdom Assembly of Iran (born 1955)

2024Kazuo Umezu, Japanese manga artist (born 1936)

2024Paul Morrissey, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1938)

2024Renato Martino, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1932)

2023Adam Johnson, American ice hockey player (born 1994)

2023Matthew Perry, American-Canadian actor (born 1969)

2022Jerry Lee Lewis, American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1935)

2018Colin Sylvia, Australian rules footballer (born 1985)

2014Galway Kinnell, American poet and academic (born 1927)

2014Michael Sata, Zambian police officer and politician, 5th President of Zambia (born 1937)

2013Aleksandar Tijanić, Serbian journalist (born 1949)

2013Rajendra Yadav, Indian author (born 1929)

2013Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (born 1927)

2013Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and manager (born 1920)

2012Gordon Bilney, Australian dentist and politician (born 1939)

2012Jack Dellal, English businessman (born 1923)

2012John Cheffers, Australian footballer and coach (born 1936)

2011Tom Addington, English soldier (born 1919)

2010Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist, architect, and educator (born 1934)

2010James MacArthur, American actor (born 1937)

2010Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenlandic politician, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (born 1938)

2010Liang Congjie, Chinese historian and activist, founded Friends of Nature (born 1932)

2009Taylor Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1990)

2007Porter Wagoner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1927)

2007Takao Fujinami, Japanese lawyer and politician (born 1932)

2006Marijohn Wilkin, American guitarist and songwriter (born 1920)

2006Red Auerbach, American basketball player and coach (born 1917)

2006Trevor Berbick, Jamaican-Canadian boxer (born 1954)

2005Bob Broeg, American soldier and journalist (born 1918)

2005Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean-Portuguese singer-songwriter (born 1922)

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“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”

Lao Tzu

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