About October 28
October 28, 2025 is the 301st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 64 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 112 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 28
- 97 –Emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard, to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.
- 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.
- 1538 –The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1918 –A new Polish government in Western Galicia is established.
- 1918 –World War I: Czechoslovakia is granted independence from Austria-Hungary marking the beginning of an independent Czechoslovak state, after 300 years.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1962 –Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he had ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
- 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.
- 2009 –The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.
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