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
- 312 –Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman Emperor.
- 1531 –Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi again defeats the army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia. The southern part of Ethiopia falls under Imam Ahmad’s control.
- 1538 –The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Plains – British Army forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans.
- 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.
- 1915 –Richard Strauss conducts the first performance of his tone poem Eine Alpensinfonie in Berlin.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 –The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.
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