October 28 in history
Events on October 28
Notable events that happened on October 28 in past years.
- 2025
Hurricane Melissa makes landfall near Black River, Jamaica, killing over 30 people, as well as tying the 1935 Labor Day hurricane as the most intense landfall in the North Atlantic.
Wikipedia article: Hurricane Melissa - 2013
Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers at Tiananmen Square in China.
Wikipedia article: 2013 Tiananmen Square attack - 2007
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first directly elected female President of Argentina.
Wikipedia article: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner - 1989
Aloha Island Air Flight 1712, a Twin Otter 300, crashed into terrain at night in Hawaii killing all 20 occupants onboard.
Wikipedia article: Aloha IslandAir Flight 1712 - 1958
John XXIII is elected Pope.
Wikipedia article: Pope John XXIII - 1948
Paul Hermann Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
Wikipedia article: Paul Hermann Müller - 1928
Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem of Indonesia, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
Wikipedia article: Indonesia Raya - 1918
World War I: Czech politicians peacefully take over the city of Prague, thus establishing the First Czechoslovak Republic.
Wikipedia article: First Czechoslovak Republic - 1864
American Civil War: In East Tennessee, Union forces under General Alvan C. Gillem route Confederate troops under General John C. Vaughn during the Battle of Morristown.
Wikipedia article: American Civil War - 1746
The 1746 Lima–Callao earthquake causes up to 6,000 deaths in Peru, the deadliest in its history up to that point.
Wikipedia article: 1746 Lima–Callao earthquake - 1640
The Treaty of Ripon is signed, ending the hostilities of the Second Bishops' War.
Wikipedia article: Treaty of Ripon - 1531
Abyssinian–Adal war: The Adal Sultanate seizes southern Ethiopia.
Wikipedia article: Ethiopian–Adal War - 1453
Ladislaus the Posthumous is crowned king of Bohemia in Prague.
Wikipedia article: Ladislaus the Posthumous - 1061
Pietro Cadalo is appointed by the German Imperial court as antipope to the pope Alexander II, who was elected in the previous month.
- 97
Roman emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.
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