SomeFacts | October 28

On this day - October 28

97 — Roman emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt ...

306 — Maxentius is proclaimed Roman emperor.

312 — Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman ...

969 — The Byzantine Empire recovers Antioch from Arab rule.

1344 — The lower town of Smyrna is captured by Latin Christians in ...

1420 — Beijing is officially designated the capital of the Ming ...

1449 — Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.

1453 — Ladislaus the Posthumous is crowned king of Bohemia in Prague.

1492 — Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba on his first voyage to the ...

1516 — Second Ottoman–Mamluk War: Mamluks fail to stop the Ottoman ...

1520 — Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean.

1531 — Abyssinian–Adal war: The Adal Sultanate seizes southern ...

1538 — The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino is founded in what is ...

1628 — French Wars of Religion: The Siege of La Rochelle ends with ...

1636 — The Massachusetts Bay Colony votes to establish a theological ...

1640 — The Treaty of Ripon is signed, ending the hostilities of the ...

1664 — The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, ...

1707 — The 1707 Hōei earthquake causes more than 5,000 deaths in ...

1726 — The novel Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift is ...

1776 — American Revolutionary War: British troops attack and capture ...

1834 — The Pinjarra massacre occurs in the Swan River Colony. An ...

1835 — The United Tribes of New Zealand are established with the ...

1864 — American Civil War: A Union attack on the Confederate capital ...

1886 — US president Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.

1891 — The Mino–Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in ...

1893 — Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique ...

1918 — World War I: Czech politicians peacefully take over the city ...

1918 — World War I: A new Polish government in western Galicia is ...

1919 — The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President ...

1922 — Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and ...

1928 — Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem of Indonesia, is first ...

1940 — World War II: Greece rejects Italy's ultimatum. Italy ...

1942 — The Alaska Highway first connects Alaska to the North American ...

1948 — Ecological disaster in Donora, Pennsylvania.

1948 — Paul Hermann Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology ...

1949 — An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashes in the Azores, ...

1954 — Aeroflot Flight 136 crashes near Krasnoyarsk, killing 19.

1956 — Hungarian Revolution: A de facto ceasefire comes into effect ...

1958 — John XXIII is elected Pope.

1962 — The Cuban Missile Crisis ends and Premier Nikita Khrushchev ...

1965 — Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate, by which the Roman ...

1971 — Prospero becomes the only British satellite to be launched by ...

1982 — The Spanish general election begins fourteen years of rule by ...

1989 — Aloha Island Air Flight 1712, a Twin Otter 300, crashed into ...

1990 — Georgia holds its only free election under Soviet rule.

1995 — The Baku Metro fire sees 289 people killed and 270 injured.

2006 — A funeral service takes place at the Bykivnia graves for ...

2007 — Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first directly ...

2009 — US President Barack Obama signs the Matthew Shepard and James ...

2009 — NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only ...

2009 — The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.

2013 — Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes ...

2014 — A rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply ...

2018 — Jair Bolsonaro is elected president of Brazil with 57 million ...

2023 — The 2023 Rugby World Cup final is held at the Stade de France ...

2025 — Hurricane Melissa makes landfall near Black River, Jamaica, ...