Today in History - Famous Events

🏰 On this day in History - October 28, 2026

1966 Belgium's Gaston Roelants runs 12-4/5 miles in 1 hour

1646 1st Protestant church assembly for indians (Massachusetts)

1891 Quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7,300

1914 Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, founded at Howard University, incorporates

1922 Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government

1858 Macy's Dept store opens in NYC

1948 Flag of Israel is adopted

1961 "Fiorello!" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 796 performances

1846 Pioneers suffer blizzard in Sierra Nevada; 42 die

1467 Battle at Brustem: Charles the Stoute beats the Luikenaars

1995 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cigar, Desert Stormer, Inside Information, My Flag, Northern Spur, Ridgewood Pearl, Unbridled's Song

1954 Major league owners vote down sale of A's to a Phila syndicate

1988 Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister

1970 US/USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts

1939 Spitfire shoots German Heinkel-111 down above Scotland

1954 N Richard Nash' "Rainmaker," premieres in NYC

1918 Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up

1911 Bill Dobbie of Calgary Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game

1975 Calvin Murphy (Houston) begins NBA free throw streak of 58 games

1953 Bud Grant of Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record)

0306 Mark Aurelius Valerius Maxentius proclaimed emperor of Rome

1921 Amsterdam's Tuschinski movie theater opens

1890 Last NL-AA World Series game Bkln ties Louisville 3 games & 1 tie

1979 Dick Howser (best Yank mngr win-lost pct .636) replaces Billy Martin

1956 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Luctuosissimi eventus

1900 After over 5 months 2nd Olympic games in Paris France, close

1949 Eugenie Anderson is 1st woman US ambassador (to Denmark)

1927 KLM-plane "Homing Pigeon" leaves Neth-Indies after 1st regular flight

1061 Emperor disposes of bishop Cadalus & Pope Honorius II

1972 "Mother Earth" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 12 performances

1936 FDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary

1988 Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gives $10 million to U Wash library

1997 NBA announces hiring of Dee Kantner & Violet Palmer as 1st women to officiate a major-league all-male sports league

1958 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking name John XXIII

1974 1st time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game-MacMillian & Westfall

1971 England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit

1994 Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth for 3rd time

1976 Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (NY Yankees)

1959 Jean Genet's "Les Nigres," premieres in Paris

1929 Dow Jones plummets 38.33 pts (13%) to 260.64

1957 WMVS TV channel 10 in Milwaukee, WI (PBS) begins broadcasting

1938 Farewell parade of International Brigade (Barcelona)

1746 Peruvian cities of Lima & Callao demolished by earthquake, 18,000 die

1982 NASA launches RCA-E

1886 Statue of Liberty dedicated by Pres Grover Cleveland, it is celebrated by 1st confetti (ticker tape) parade in NYC

1986 KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM changes call letters to KKOB

1951 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1942 Train crashes into bus, killing 16 & injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan)

1924 White Sox beat NY Giants 8-4 in Dublin, less than 20 fans attend

1935 Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End," premieres in NYC

1953 Red Barber, resigns as Dodger sportscaster to join Yankees

1974 Luna 23 launched (landing on Moon)

1954 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway

1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1793 Eli Whitney applies for a patent on cotton gin

1965 Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion

1993 Dutch Antilles govt of Liberia-Peters resigns

1992 Lee Jang Rim predicts that today would be the end of the world!

1986 KOB-TV in Albuquerque NM's final transmission

0969 Byzantines troops occupy Antioch Syria

1944 Russia & Bulgaria sign weapon pact

1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1422 Charles V's son succeeds him as king Charles VII of France

1982 Spain's socialists win/communists lose elections

1976 Train collision at Goes Neth, 7 die

1977 TV's Rhoda gets married

1959 Buffalo Bills enter AFL

1958 Pete Runnels wins Comeback Player of Year (avg went from .230 to .322)

1949 Georges Bidault elected president of France

1610 Thomas West baron De La Mar appointed as 1st gov of Virginia colony

1965 Gateway Arch (630' (190m) high) completed in St Louis, Missouri

1934 Brooklyn & Pittsburgh play a penalty free NFL game

1776 Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to NJ

1928 Indonesian child laws enfoced in Bahasa Indonesia

1981 NY Yankee George Frazier loses 3 World Series games

1915 Richard Strauss' Alpensymfonie, premieres in Berlin

1612 Robert Dowland appointed court luitist of King James I

1985 Ravi Ratnayeke takes 8-83 for Sri Lanka v Pakistan

1867 Maimonides College in Penns is 1st Jewish college in the US

1974 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1984 15th NYC Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:14:53

1946 German rocket engineers begin work in USSR

1962 Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis

1993 Cleveland Metroparks lease Brookside Park from Cleveland for 99-years

1940 Greece successfully resists Italy's attack

1893 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted 1st performance of "Symphony Number Six in B minor, "Pathetique"

1574 Prince Willem van Orange installs university

1973 Elmore Smith of Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game (NBA record)

1978 Don Ritchie runs world record 100k (6:10:20)

1919 Volstead Act passed by Congress, start prohibition over Wilson's veto

1962 NY Giant YA Tittle passes for 7 touchdowns vs Wash Redskins (49-34)

0312 Emperor Constantine the Great beats rivaal Maxentius

1952 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Women's Texas Golf Open

1863 Battle at Wauhatchie Georgia: 865 killed or injured

1914 German battle cruiser Goeben enters Black Sea

1904 St Louis police try a new investigation method-fingerprints

1973 Sharon Miller wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open

1628 Hugenot bulwark La Rochelle surrenders to Cardinal Richelieu

1894 German emperor Wilhelm II fires chancellor Leo von Caprivi & premier Botho zu Eulenburg

1955 Egypt & Saudi-Arabia sign defense treaty

1971 John & Yoko record "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in NYC

1984 14th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:29:30

1636 Harvard University (Cambridge Mass) founded

1942 6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery

1970 NBA Cleve Cavaliers 1st home game, lose to San Diego 110-99

1975 Cleveland Metroparks assume operating responsibilities for Zoo

1961 Ground broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium for NY Mets

1984 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Nichirei Cup Team Match Golf Tournament

1864 Battle of Wauhatchie, TN

1954 Ernest Hemingway wins Nobel prize for literature

1882 Athletics reveal $22,000 profit in their 1st season in the Amer Assn

1928 Bradman scores 131 NSW v Queensland, 212 mins, 14 fours

1906 Belgian-British "Union Minstry of Haut-Katanga" begins

1981 Edward M McIntrye elected 1st black mayor of Augusta Georgia

1943 U-220 sinks

1939 Anti-German demonstrations/strikes in Czechoslovakia

1740 Ivan VI becomes czar of Russia [OS=Oct 17]

1995 Atlanta Braves beat Cleveland Indians in 6 games in World Series

1864 Battle at Fair Oaks, Virginia, ends after 1554 casualties

1989 Oakland A's sweep SF Giants in earthquake/BART series

1790 NY gives up claims to Vermont for $30,000

1996 Goa upset Karnataka to win their 1st Ranji Cricket Trophy game ever

1924 French-Russian trade agreement signed

1595 Battle at Giurgevo: Zsigmond B thory of Transylvania beats Turks

1922 1st coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game

1962 Radio Moscow reports nuclear missiles in Cuba deactivated

1927 Josip Broz (Tito) begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia

1940 Meeting between Hitler & Mussolini in Florence

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