TODAY...... on 28th October there were how many events in world out of theme some Historical Events were; 306 - Mark Aurelius Valerius Maxentius proclaimed emperor of Rome 312 - Emperor Constantine the Great beats rival Maxentius 969 - Byzantines troops occupy Antioch Syria 1061 - Emperor disposes of bishop Cadalus & Pope Honorius II 1422 - Charles Vs son succeeds him as king Charles VII of France 1467 - Battle at Brustem: Charles the Stoute beats the Luikenaars 1492 - Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba & claims it for Spain 1516 - Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza. 1531 - Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi again defeats the army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia. The southern part of Ethiopia falls under Imam Ahmads control. 1538 - The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established. 1574 - Prince Willem van Orange installs university 1595 - Battle at Giurgevo: Zsigmond Bathory of Transylvania beats Turks 1612 - Robert Dowland appointed court luitist of King James I 1628 - Hugenot bulwark La Rochelle surrenders to Cardinal Richelieu 1636 - Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts) founded 1646 - 1st Protestant church assembly for indians (Massachusetts) 1664 - The Duke of York and Albanys Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established. 1740 - Ivan VI becomes czar of Russia [OS=Oct 17] 1746 - Peruvian cities of Lima & Callao demolished by earthquake, 18,000 die 1776 - Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to NJ 1790 - NY gives up claims to Vermont for $30,000 1793 - Eli Whitney applies for a patent on cotton gin 1834 - The Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists. 1846 - Pioneers suffer blizzard in Sierra Nevada; 42 die 1848 - The first railroad in Spain - between Barcelona and Mataró - is opened. 1858 - Macys Dept store opens in NYC 1863 - Battle at Wauhatchie Georgia: 865 killed or injured 1864 - Second Battle of Newtonia (American Civil War), Newton County, Missouri 1864 - 2nd Battle at Fair Oaks, Virginia, ends with 1554 casualties 1864 - Battle of Wauhatchie, TN 1867 - Maimonides College in Penns is 1st Jewish college in the US 1882 - Athletics reveal $22,000 profit in their 1st season in the American Association 1886 - Statue of Liberty dedicated by Pres Grover Cleveland, it is celebrated by 1st confetti (ticker tape) parade in NYC 1890 - Last NL-AA World Series game Bkln ties Louisville 3 games & 1 tie 1891 - Quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7,300 1893 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted 1st performance of Symphony Number Six in B minor, Pathetique 1894 - German emperor Wilhelm II fires chancellor Leo von Caprivi & premier Botho zu Eulenburg 1900 - After over 5 months 2nd Olympic games in Paris France, close 1904 - St Louis police try a new investigation method-fingerprints 1906 - Belgian-British Union Minstry of Haut-Katanga begins 1911 - Bill Dobbie of Calgary Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game 1914 - German battle cruiser Goeben enters Black Sea 1914 - Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, founded at Howard University, incorporates 1915 - Richard Strauss Alpensymfonie, premieres in Berlin 1918 - Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up 1919 - Volstead Act passed by Congress, start prohibition over Wilsons veto 1921 - Amsterdams Tuschinski movie theater opens 1922 - 1st coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game 1922 - Benito Mussolini takes control of Italys government 1924 - French-Russian trade agreement signed 1924 - White Sox beat NY Giants 8-4 in Dublin, less than 20 fans attend 1927 - Josip Broz (Tito) begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia 1927 - KLM-plane Homing Pigeon leaves Neth-Indies after 1st regular flight 1928 - Bradman scores 131 NSW v Queensland, 212 mins, 14 fours 1928 - Indonesian child laws enfoced in Bahasa Indonesia 1929 - Dow Jones plummets 38.33 pts (13%) to 260.64 1934 - Brooklyn & Pittsburgh play a penalty free NFL game 1935 - Sidney Kingsleys Dead End, premieres in NYC 1936 - FDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary 1938 - Farewell parade of International Brigade (Barcelona) 1939 - Anti-German demonstrations/strikes in Czechoslovakia 1939 - Spitfire shoots German Heinkel-111 down above Scotland 1940 - Greece successfully resists Italys attack 1940 - Meeting between Hitler & Benito Mussolini in Florence 1942 - 6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery 1942 - Train crashes into bus, killing 16 & injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan) 1943 - U-220 sinks 1944 - Russia & Bulgaria sign weapon pact 1946 - German rocket engineers begin work in USSR 1948 - Flag of Israel is adopted 1949 - Georges Bidault elected president of France 1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1952 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Womens Texas Golf Open 1953 - Bud Grant of Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record) 1953 - Red Barber, resigns as Dodger sportscaster to join Yankees 1954 - Major league owners vote down sale of As to a Phila syndicate 1954 - N Richard Nash Rainmaker, premieres in NYC 1954 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway 1955 - Egypt & Saudi-Arabia sign defense treaty 1956 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Luctuosissimi eventus 1957 - WMVS TV channel 10 in Milwaukee, WI (PBS) begins broadcasting 1958 - Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking name John XXIII 1958 - Pete Runnels wins Comeback Player of Year (avg went from .230 to .322) 1959 - Buffalo Bills enter AFL 1959 - Jean Genets Les Negres, premieres in Paris 1961 - Fiorello! closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 796 performances 1961 - Ground broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium for NY Mets 1962 - Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis 1962 - NY Giant YA Tittle passes for 7 touchdowns vs Wash Redskins (49-34) 1962 - Radio Moscow reports nuclear missiles in Cuba deactivated 1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1962 - Cuban missile crisis ends after JFK and Khrushchev make a public and secret agreement 1965 - Gateway Arch (630 (190m) high) completed in St Louis, Missouri 1965 - Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion 1966 - Belgiums Gaston Roelants runs 12-4/5 miles in 1 hour 1970 - NBA Cleveland Cavaliers 1st home game, lose to San Diego 110-99 1970 - US/USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts 1971 - England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit 1971 - John & Yoko record Happy Xmas (War is Over) in NYC 1972 - Mother Earth closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 12 performances 1973 - Elmore Smith of Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game (NBA record) 1973 - Sharon Miller wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open 1974 - 1st time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game-MacMillian & Westfall 1974 - Luna 23 launched (landing on Moon) 1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1975 - Calvin Murphy (Houston) begins NBA free throw streak of 58 games 1975 - Cleveland Metroparks assume operating responsibilities for Zoo 1976 - Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (NY Yankees) 1976 - Train collision at Goes Neth, 7 die 1978 - Don Ritchie runs world record 100k (6:10:20) 1979 - Dick Howser (best Yank mngr win-lost pct .636) replaces Billy Martin 1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1981 - Edward M McIntrye elected 1st black mayor of Augusta Georgia 1981 - NY Yankee George Frazier loses 3 World Series games 1982 - NASA launches RCA-E 1982 - Spains socialists win/communists lose elections 1984 - 14th NYC Womens Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:29:30 1984 - 15th NYC Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:14:53 1984 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Nichirei Cup Team Match Golf Tournament 1985 - Ravi Ratnayeke takes 8-83 for Sri Lanka v Pakistan 1986 - KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM changes call letters to KKOB 1986 - KOB-TV in Albuquerque NMs final transmission 1986 - The centennial of the Statue of Libertys dedication is re-celebrated in New York Harbor. 1988 - Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister 1988 - Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gives $10 million to U Wash library 1989 - Oakland As sweep SF Giants in earthquake/BART series 1992 - Lee Jang Rim predicts that today would be the end of the world! 1993 - Cleveland Metroparks lease Brookside Park from Cleveland for 99-years 1993 - Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters resigns 1994 - Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth for 3rd time 1995 - Atlanta Braves beat Cleveland Indians in 6 games in World Series 1995 - Horse Racing Breeders Cup Champs: Cigar, Desert Stormer, Inside Information, My Flag, Northern Spur, Ridgewood Pearl, Unbridleds Song 1996 - Goa upset Karnataka to win their 1st Ranji Cricket Trophy game ever 1997 - NBA announces hiring of Dee Kantner & Violet Palmer as 1st women to officiate a major-league all-male sports league 1998 - An Air China (Mainland China) jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan. 2005 - Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheneys chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day. 2006 - Funeral service for the peace of the executed at Bykivnia forest, outside of Kiev, Ukraine, with reburial of 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s - early 1940s. 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. 2012 - Syrian ceasefire collapses and 128 people are killed in ongoing civil war violence 2012 - 15 people are killed and 33 injured by a series of Baghdad car bombings 2012 - Sebastian Vettel wins the 2012 Formula One Indian Grand Prix 2012 - San Francisco Giants defeat the Detroit Tigers in game four to take the 2012 MLB World Series 2012 - Pablo Sandoval is named MLB 2012 World Series MVP.
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