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
- 306 –Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
- 1628 –The Siege of La Rochelle, which had lasted for 14 months, ends with the surrender of the Huguenots.
- 1707 –The 1707 Hōei earthquake causes more than 5,000 deaths in Honshu, Shikoku and Kyūshū, Japan
- 1848 –The first railroad in Spain – between Barcelona and Mataró – is opened.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1928 –Declaration of the Youth Pledge in Indonesia, the first time Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem, was sung.
- 1929 –Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
- 1942 –The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.
- 1948 –Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
- 1958 –John XXIII, is elected Pope.
- 1964 –Vietnam War: U.S. officials deny any involvement in bombing North Vietnam.
- 1965 –Construction on the St. Louis Arch is completed.
- 1971 –Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket.
- 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.
- 2006 –The funeral service takes place for those executed at Bykivnia forest, outside Kiev, Ukraine. 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s – early 1940s are reburied.
- 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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