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.
- 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.
- 1516 –Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza.
- 1636 –A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.
- 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.
- 1835 –The United Tribes of New Zealand is established with the signature of the Declaration of Independence.
- 1886 –In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
- 1915 –Richard Strauss conducts the first performance of his tone poem Eine Alpensinfonie in Berlin.
- 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.
- 1928 –Declaration of the Youth Pledge in Indonesia, the first time Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem, was sung.
- 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.
- 1958 –John XXIII, is elected Pope.
- 1962 –Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he had ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
- 1965 –Nostra Aetate, the “Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions” of the Second Vatican Council, is promulgated by Pope Paul VI; it absolves the Jews of responsibility for the death of Jesus, reversing Innocent III’s 760 year-old declaration.
- 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.
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