About October 28
October 28, 2024 is the 302nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 64 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 93 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.
- 312 –Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman Emperor.
- 1061 –Empress Agnes, acting as Regent for her son, brings about the election of Bishop Cadalus, the Antipope Honorius II.
- 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.
- 1664 –The Duke of York and Albany’s Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.
- 1835 –The United Tribes of New Zealand is established with the signature of the Declaration of Independence.
- 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.
- 1891 –The Mino-Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan’s history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.
- 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.
- 1940 –World War II: Greece rejects Italy’s ultimatum. Italy invades Greece through Albania, marking Greece’s entry into World War II.
- 1948 –Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
- 1962 –Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he had ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
- 1964 –Vietnam War: U.S. officials deny any involvement in bombing North Vietnam.
- 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.
- 1995 –289 people are killed and 265 injured in Baku Metro fire, the deadliest subway disaster.
- 2007 –Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first woman elected President of Argentina.
- 2009 –NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program.
- 2009 –The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.
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