# What happened on October 28 in history?

**Date:** October 28  
**Events recorded:** 57  
**Years spanned:** 97 – 2025  
**Full page:** https://thisday.info/events/october/28/

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## Featured Event

**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.

[Read more on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Melissa)

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## Events on this date

- **97** — Roman emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AD_97))
- **306** — Maxentius is proclaimed Roman emperor. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxentius))
- **312** — Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman emperor in the West. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_the_Great))
- **969** — The Byzantine Empire recovers Antioch from Arab rule. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire))
- **1344** — The lower town of Smyrna is captured by Latin Christians in response to Aydınid piracy during the Smyrniote crusades. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aydinids))
- **1420** — Beijing is officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty when the Forbidden City is completed. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing))
- **1449** — Christian I is crowned king of Denmark. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_I_of_Denmark))
- **1453** — Ladislaus the Posthumous is crowned king of Bohemia in Prague. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislaus_the_Posthumous))
- **1492** — Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World, surmising that it is Japan. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus))
- **1516** — Second Ottoman–Mamluk War: Mamluks fail to stop the Ottoman advance towards Egypt at the Battle of Yaunis Khan. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman%E2%80%93Mamluk_War_(1516%E2%80%931517)))
- **1520** — Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan))
- **1531** — Abyssinian–Adal war: The Adal Sultanate seizes southern Ethiopia. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian%E2%80%93Adal_War))
- **1538** — The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino is founded in what is now the Dominican Republic. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universidad_Santo_Tom%C3%A1s_de_Aquino))
- **1628** — French Wars of Religion: The Siege of La Rochelle ends with the surrender of the Huguenots after fourteen months. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Wars_of_Religion))
- **1636** — The Massachusetts Bay Colony votes to establish a theological college, which would later become Harvard University. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Bay_Colony))
- **1640** — The Treaty of Ripon is signed, ending the hostilities of the Second Bishops' War. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Ripon))
- **1664** — The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Marines))
- **1707** — The 1707 Hōei earthquake causes more than 5,000 deaths in Japan. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1707_H%C5%8Dei_earthquake))
- **1726** — The novel Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift is published. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver's_Travels))
- **1746** — The 1746 Lima–Callao earthquake causes up to 6,000 deaths in Peru, the deadliest in its history up to that point. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1746_Lima%E2%80%93Callao_earthquake))
- **1776** — American Revolutionary War: British troops attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Continental Army. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War))
- **1834** — The Pinjarra massacre occurs in the Swan River Colony. An estimated 30 Noongar people are killed by British colonists. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinjarra_massacre))
- **1835** — The United Tribes of New Zealand are established with the signature of the Declaration of Independence. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Tribes_of_New_Zealand))
- **1864** — American Civil War: A Union attack on the Confederate capital of Richmond is repulsed. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War))
- **1886** — US president Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland))
- **1891** — The Mino–Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history, occurs. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1891_Mino%E2%80%93Owari_earthquake))
- **1893** — Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky))
- **1918** — World War I: A new Polish government in western Galicia is established, triggering the Polish–Ukrainian War. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I))
- **1918** — World War I: Czech politicians peacefully take over the city of Prague, thus establishing the First Czechoslovak Republic. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Czechoslovak_Republic))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volstead_Act))
- **1922** — Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_fascism))
- **1928** — Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem of Indonesia, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia_Raya))
- **1940** — World War II: Greece rejects Italy's ultimatum. Italy invades Greece through Albania a few hours later. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II))
- **1942** — The Alaska Highway first connects Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Highway))
- **1948** — Paul Hermann Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hermann_M%C3%BCller))
- **1948** — Ecological disaster in Donora, Pennsylvania. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Donora_smog))
- **1949** — An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashes in the Azores, killing all 48 people on board. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France))
- **1954** — Aeroflot Flight 136 crashes near Krasnoyarsk, killing 19. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_136))
- **1956** — Hungarian Revolution: A de facto ceasefire comes into effect between armed revolutionaries and Soviet troops, who begin to withdraw from Budapest. Communist officials and facilities come under attack by revolutionaries. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956))
- **1958** — John XXIII is elected Pope. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_XXIII))
- **1962** — The Cuban Missile Crisis ends and Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis))
- **1965** — Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate, by which the Roman Catholic Church officially recognizes the legitimacy of non-Christian faiths. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Paul_VI))
- **1971** — Prospero becomes the only British satellite to be launched by a British rocket. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospero_(spacecraft)))
- **1982** — The Spanish general election begins fourteen years of rule by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Spanish_general_election))
- **1989** — Aloha Island Air Flight 1712, a Twin Otter 300, crashed into terrain at night in Hawaii killing all 20 occupants onboard. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_IslandAir_Flight_1712))
- **1990** — Georgia holds its only free election under Soviet rule. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Georgian_Supreme_Soviet_election))
- **1995** — The Baku Metro fire sees 289 people killed and 270 injured. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Baku_Metro_fire))
- **2006** — A funeral service takes place at the Bykivnia graves for Ukrainians who were killed by the Soviet secret police. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bykivnia_graves))
- **2007** — Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first directly elected female President of Argentina. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina_Fern%C3%A1ndez_de_Kirchner))
- **2009** — The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_October_2009_Peshawar_bombing))
- **2009** — NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its short-lived Constellation program. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA))
- **2009** — US President Barack Obama signs the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama))
- **2013** — Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers at Tiananmen Square in China. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Tiananmen_Square_attack))
- **2014** — A rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops Island, Virginia. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_Orb-3))
- **2018** — Jair Bolsonaro is elected president of Brazil with 57 million votes, with Workers' Party candidate Fernando Haddad as the runner-up. It is the first time in 16 years that a Workers' Party candidate is not elected president. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jair_Bolsonaro))
- **2023** — The 2023 Rugby World Cup final is held at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France. It saw South Africa defeat New Zealand 12 to 11, claiming their fourth Webb Ellis Cup, becoming the first nation to do so. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Rugby_World_Cup_final))
- **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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Melissa))

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## Notable births on October 28

- **2006** — **Yoon Do-young** — South Korean footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoon_Do-young))
- **2001** — **Sonay Kartal** — British tennis player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonay_Kartal))
- **1998** — **Nolan Gould** — American actor ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Gould))
- **1997** — **Stetson Bennett** — American football player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stetson_Bennett))
- **1997** — **Taylor Fritz** — American tennis player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Fritz))
- **1997** — **Georgia Godwin** — Australian artistic gymnast ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Godwin))
- **1996** — **Jasmine Jessica Anthony** — American actress ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_in_Chief_(TV_series)))
- **1996** — **Jack Eichel** — American ice hockey player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Eichel))
- **1996** — **Una Raymond-Hoey** — Irish cricketer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Una_Raymond-Hoey))
- **1995** — **Glen Kamara** — Finnish footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Kamara))

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## Notable deaths on October 28

- **2024** — **Renato Martino** — Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1932) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renato_Martino))
- **2024** — **Paul Morrissey** — American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1938) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Morrissey))
- **2024** — **Jamshid Sharmahd** — German-American affiliate of Kingdom Assembly of Iran (born 1955) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamshid_Sharmahd))
- **2024** — **Kazuo Umezu** — Japanese manga artist (born 1936) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Umezu))
- **2023** — **Matthew Perry** — American-Canadian actor (born 1969) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Perry))
- **2023** — **Adam Johnson** — American ice hockey player (born 1994) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Johnson_(ice_hockey)))
- **2022** — **Jerry Lee Lewis** — American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1935) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lee_Lewis))
- **2018** — **Colin Sylvia** — Australian rules footballer (born 1985) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Sylvia))
- **2014** — **Galway Kinnell** — American poet and academic (born 1927) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galway_Kinnell))
- **2014** — **Michael Sata** — Zambian police officer and politician, 5th President of Zambia (born 1937) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sata))

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