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The
28t o October
is the 301t day o the year (302t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 64 days bidin.
Events
- 306
-
Maxentius
is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
- 1420
-
Beijing
is proclaimed the caipital o
Ming Dynasty
Cheenae
.
- 1492
-
Christopher Columbus
lands in
Cuba
.
- 1636
-
Harvard Varsity
in
Massachusetts
is foondit.
- 1707
- A
yirdquauk
kills ower 5,000 fowk in
Japan
.
- 1746
- A strong
yirdquauk
hits
Lima
,
Peru
, killin 18,000 fowk.
- 1848
-
Spain
's first railwey line opens.
- 1856
-
Portugal
's first railwey line is completit.
- 1869
-
Dmitri Mendeleev
publishes the
Periodic cairt
o the elements.
- 1886
- The
Statue o Liberty
, in the harbour o
New York Ceety
, is dedicatit, as a gift tae the
Unitit States
frae
Fraunce
.
- 1900
- The
1900 Simmer Olympics
in
Paris
end.
- 1904
-
Panama
an
Uruguay
establish diplomatic relations.
- 1918
-
Czechoslovakie
gains unthirldom frae
Austrick
-
Hungary
.
- 1940
-
Warld War II
:
Greece
is invadit bi
Italy
.
- 1942
- The
Alaska
Highway is completit.
- 1954
-
Ernest Hemingway
wins the
Nobel Prize in Leeteratur
.
- 1958
-
Pape John XXIII
is electit.
- 1962
- End o the
Cuban Missile Crisis
.
- 1965
-
Gatewey Airch
in
St. Louis
,
Missouri
, is opened tae the public.
- 1995
- 289 fowk are kilt in the
Baku
Subway fire.
- 2007
-
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
is electit
Preses
o
Argentinae
.
- 2009
- A bomb attack in
Peshawar
,
Pakistan
, kills 117 fowk.
- 2013
- The St. Jude Storm affects pairts o Northren an Wastren
Europe
.
- 2016
- Then-
FBI
Director
James Comey
propales a new investigation intae
Hillary Clinton
's emails, juist 11 days afore the
US Preses election
.
- 2017
-
Iceland
holds its seicont pairlamentar election in the space o a year.
- 2017
- Twa bomb attacks in
Mogadishu
,
Somalie
, kill at least 19 fowk.
- 2018
- Far-richt candidate
Jair Bolsonaro
is electit
Preses
o
Brazil
Births
- 1017
-
Henry III, Haly Roman Emperor
(d.
1056
)
- 1466
-
Erasmus
, Dutch humanist, priest, social creetic an theologian (d.
1536
)
- 1726
-
David Dalrymple, Laird Hailes
, Scots advocate, juidge an historian (d.
1792
)
- 1803
-
Caroline Unger
, Austro-Hungarian contralto (d.
1877
)
- 1823
-
William Simpson
, Scots airtist an war correspondent (d.
1899
)
- 1826
-
Sir Andrew Clark, 1st Baronet
, Scots medicinar an pathologist (d.
1893
)
- 1836
-
James Edward Tierney Aitchison
, Scots surgeon an botanist (d.
1898
)
- 1845
-
Robert Gibb
, Scots penter (d.
1932
)
- 1848
-
Thomas Millie Dow
, Scots airtist (d.
1919
)
- 1902
-
Elsa Lanchester
, Inglis actress (d.
1986
)
- 1903
-
Evelyn Waugh
, Inglis writer (d.
1966
)
- 1909
-
Francis Bacon
, Erse penter (d.
1992
)
- 1914
-
Richard Laurence Millington Synge
, Inglis biochemist (d.
1994
)
- 1925
-
Ian Hamilton Finlay
, Scots fitbawer (d.
2006
)
- 1928
-
Lawrie Reilly
, Scots fitbawer (d.
2013
)
- 1929
-
Joan Plowright
, Inglis actress
- 1930
-
Bernie Ecclestone
, Inglis businessman, umwhile heid o
Formula Ane
- 1933
-
Garrincha
, Brazilian fitbawer (d.
1983
)
- 1935
-
Eddie O'Hara
, Scots fitbawer (d.
2016
)
- 1946
-
Sandy Clark
, Scots fitbawer
- 1949
-
Caitlyn Jenner
, American athlete an telly personality
- 1949
-
John McGovern
, Scots fitbawer
- 1955
-
Bill Gates
, American businessman
- 1956
-
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
, umwhile
Preses
o
Iran
- 1963
-
Eros Ramazzotti
, Italian sangster
- 1964
-
Andrew Bridgen
, Inglis politeecian
- 1967
-
Kevin Macdonald
, Scots director
- 1967
-
Julia Roberts
, American actress
- 1974
-
Joaquin Phoenix
, American actor
- 1981
-
Milan Baros
, Czech fitbawer
- 1982
-
Matt Smith
, Inglis actor
Daiths
- 312
-
Maxentius
, Roman Emperor (b.
278
)
- 1562
-
George Gordon, 4t Yerl o Huntly
, Scots nobleman (b.
1514
)
- 1627
-
Jahangir
, Mughal Emperor (b.
1569
)
- 1704
-
John Locke
, Inglis philosopher (b.
1632
)
- 1740
-
Anna o Roushie
(b.
1693
)
- 1818
-
Abigail Adams
, First Lady o the Unitit States (b.
1744
)
- 1840
-
John Thomson o Duddiston
, Scots meenister an penter (b.
1778
)
- 1921
-
William Speirs Bruce
, Scots naituralist, polar scientist an oceanografer (b.
1867
)
- 1922
-
Alexander Crum Brown
, Scots organic chemist (b.
1838
)
- 1998
-
Ted Hughes
, Inglis poet (b.
1930
)
- 2005
-
Richard Smalley
, American chemist (b.
1943
)
- 2013
-
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
, Pols politeecian (b.
1927
)
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