October 28 Historical Events

The following events took place on October 28. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 56 events. Showing 31 - 56.

• 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.
• 1928
  Declaration of the Youth Pledge in Indonesia, the first time Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem, was sung.
• 1929
  Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
• 1940
  World War II: Greece rejects Italy’s ultimatum. So, Greco-Italian War began. 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.
• 1948
  Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
• 1949
  An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashes in the Azores killing all people on board, including the French former middleweight world champion boxer Marcel Cerdan and French violinist Ginette Neveu
• 1958
  John XXIII is elected Pope.
• 1962
  End of Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
• 1964
  Vietnam War: U.S. officials deny any involvement in bombing North Vietnam.
• 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.
• 1965
  Construction on the Gateway Arch is completed.

• 1971
  Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket from Launch Area 5B at Woomera, South Australia, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket.
• 1982
  The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party wins elections, leading to the first Socialist government in Spain after death of Franco. Felipe González becomes Prime Minister-elect.
• 1990
  The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic holds the first multiparty legislature election in the country’s history.
• 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. Eight hundred seventeen Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s – early 1940s are reburied.
• 2006
  A group of activists of Bangladesh Awami League attacked a rival political party meeting in Dhaka with oars and sculls and killed 14.
• 2007
  Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first woman elected President of Argentina.
• 2009
  The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.
• 2009
  NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program.
• 2013
  Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers just outside the Forbidden City in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China.
• 2014
  An unmanned Antares 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 Virginia.