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100 years anniversary | ||||
28 Oct 1925 | Leonard Starr: Comic strip cartoonist (Little Orphan Annie) | |||
28 Oct 1925 | Wim Keja: Dutch MP (VVD) | |||
28 Oct 1925 | Ian Hamilton Finlay, Bahamian-Scottish poet, sculptor, and gardener (d. 2006) | |||
75 years anniversary | ||||
28 Oct 1950 | Sihem Bensedrine, Tunisian journalist and activist | |||
28 Oct 1950 | Ludo Delcroix, Belgian cyclist | |||
50 years anniversary | ||||
28 Oct 1975 | Calvin Murphy (Houston) begins NBA free throw streak of 58 games | |||
28 Oct 1975 | Cleveland Metroparks assume operating responsibilities for Zoo | |||
28 Oct 1975 | Daniela Urzi, Argentinian model | |||
28 Oct 1975 | Georges Carpentier, French boxer and actor (b. 1894) | |||
28 Oct 1975 | Oliver Nelson, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (b. 1932) | |||
28 Oct 1975 | Calvin Murphy (Houston) begins NBA free throw streak of 58 games | |||
25 years anniversary | ||||
28 Oct 2000 | Andújar Cedeño, Dominican baseball player (b. 1969) | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
28 Oct 2005 | Eugene K. Bird, American colonel (b. 1926) | |||
28 Oct 2005 | Bob Broeg, American soldier and journalist (b. 1918) | |||
28 Oct 2005 | Raymond Hains, French photographer (b. 1926) | |||
28 Oct 2005 | Tony Jackson, American basketball player (b. 1942) | |||
28 Oct 2005 | Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean-Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1922) | |||
28 Oct 2005 | Richard Smalley, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943) | |||
28 Oct 2005 | Ljuba Tadić, Serbian actor and screenwriter (b. 1929) | |||
28 Oct 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. | |||
28 Oct 2005 | A former producer of the rap group So Solid Crew was jailed for at least 30 years for murdering a love rival. Earlier this month a jury found Carl Morgan, 24, of Battersea, south London, guilty of shooting Colin Scarlett in Tooting, south London, last year. They failed to reach a verdict on the same charge faced by rapper Megaman, real name Dwayne Vincent, who would face a retrial next March. The judge said the life sentence showed gun crime would not be tolerated. Morgan appeared in the band's video for the track 21 Seconds. | |||
28 Oct 2005 |
death Richard E. Smalley Died 28 Oct 2005 at age 62 (born 6 Jun 1943). Richard Errett Smalley was an American chemist and physicist, known as the father of nanotechnology, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Robert F. Curl, Jr., and Sir Harold W. Kroto for their joint 1985 discovery of carbon60 (C60, or buckminsterfullerene, or buckyball) and the fullerenes. |
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28 Oct 2005
Richard Smalley |
death Richard Smalley Richard Smalley (b. 1943), Nobelaureate in Chemistry (1996) for the discovery of a new form of carbon, Buckminsterfullerene. |
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15 years anniversary | ||||
28 Oct 2010 | Liang Congjie, Chinese historian and activist, founded Friends of Nature (b. 1932) | |||
28 Oct 2010 | Gerard Kelly, Scottish actor (b. 1959) | |||
28 Oct 2010 | James MacArthur, American actor (b. 1937) | |||
28 Oct 2010 | Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenlandic politician, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (b. 1938) | |||
28 Oct 2010 | Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist, architect, and educator (b. 1934) |