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Events on the 28th of October in history

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28 Oct 1997 Emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.
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28 Oct 0306 Mark Aurelius Valerius Maxentius proclaimed Emperor of Rome
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28 Oct 0306 Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
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28 Oct 0312 Emperor Constantine the Great beats rival Maxentius
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28 Oct 0312 Battle of the Milvian Bridge: Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman emperor in the West.
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28 Oct 0456 The Visigoths brutally sack the Suebi's capital of Braga (Portugal), and the town's churches are burnt to the ground.
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28 Oct 0969 Byzantines troops occupy Antioch Syria
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28 Oct 0969 Byzantine general Michael Bourtzes seizes part of Antioch's fortifications. The capture of the city from the Arabs is completed three days later, when reinforcements under the stratopedarches Peter arrive.
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28 Oct 1061 Emperor disposes of Bishop Cadalus and Pope Honorius II
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28 Oct 1061 Empress Agnes, acting as regent for her son, brings about the election of bishop Cadalus, the antipope Honorius II.
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28 Oct 1344 The lower town of Smyrna is captured by Crusaders.
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28 Oct 1420 Beijing is officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty on the same year that the Forbidden City, the seat of government, is completed.
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28 Oct 1467 Battle at Brustem: Charles the Stoute beats the Luikenaars
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28 Oct 1492 Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba on his first voyage to the New World.
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28 Oct 1492 Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba
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28 Oct 1516 Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mamluks near Gaza.
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28 Oct 1531 Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi again defeats the army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia. The southern part of Ethiopia falls under Imam Ahmad's control.
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28 Oct 1538 The first university in the New World (in present-day Dominican Republic), the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.
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28 Oct 1574 Prince Willem van Orange installs university
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28 Oct 1610 Thomas West baron De La Mar appointed as 1st gov of Virginia colony
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28 Oct 1612 Robert Dowland appointed court luitist of King James I
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28 Oct 1628 Hugenot bulwark La Rochelle surrenders to Cardinal Richelieu
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28 Oct 1628 French Wars of Religion: The Siege of La Rochelle, which had lasted for 14 months, ends with the surrender of the Huguenots.
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28 Oct 1636 Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts) founded
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28 Oct 1636 A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.
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28 Oct 1636 Harvard University (Boston) established
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28 Oct 1646 1st Protestant church assembly for indians (Massachusetts)
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28 Oct 1664 The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.
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28 Oct 1707 The 1707 Hōei earthquake causes more than 5,000 deaths in Honshu, Shikoku and Kyūshū, Japan
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28 Oct 1746 Peruvian cities of Lima and Callao demolished by earthquake, 18,000 die
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28 Oct 1775 American Revolutionary War: A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston.
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28 Oct 1776 Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to New Jersey
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28 Oct 1776 American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Plains: British Army forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans.
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28 Oct 1790 New York gives up claims to Vermont for $30,000
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28 Oct 1793 Eli Whitney applies for a patent on the cotton gin
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28 Oct 1834 The Battle of Pinjarra is fought in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
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28 Oct 1835 The United Tribes of New Zealand is established with the signature of the Declaration of Independence.
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28 Oct 1846 Pioneers suffer blizzard in Sierra Nevada; 42 die
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28 Oct 1848 The first railroad in Spain between Barcelona and Mataró is opened.
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28 Oct 1863 Battle at Wauhatchie Georgia: 865 killed or injured
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28 Oct 1864 Battle at Fair Oaks, Virginia, ends after 1554 casualties
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28 Oct 1864 Battle of Wauhatchie, Tennessee
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28 Oct 1864 American Civil War: The Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road (also known as the Second Battle of Fair Oaks) ends: Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond, Virginia.
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28 Oct 1867 Maimonides College in Penns is 1st Jewish college in the US
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28 Oct 1882 Athletics reveal $22,000 profit in their 1st season in the American Association
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28 Oct 1886 Statue of Liberty dedicated by President Grover Cleveland, it is celebrated by 1st confetti (ticker tape) parade in New York City
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28 Oct 1886 In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
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28 Oct 1890 Last NL-AA World Series game Brooklyn ties Louisville 3 games & 1 tie
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28 Oct 1891 The Mino-Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.
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28 Oct 1891 Quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7,300
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28 Oct 1893 Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique, receives its première performance in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composer's death.
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28 Oct 1900 After over 5 months 2nd Olympic games in Paris France, close
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28 Oct 1900 After over 5 months the Paris Olympic games close
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28 Oct 1904 Panama and Uruguay establish diplomatic links.
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28 Oct 1904 St Louis police try a new investigation method-fingerprints
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28 Oct 1906 Belgian-British "Union Minstry of Haut-Katanga" begins
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28 Oct 1911 Bill Dobbie of Calgary Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game
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28 Oct 1914 German battle cruiser Goeben enters Black Sea
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28 Oct 1914 Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, founded at Howard University, incorporates
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28 Oct 1915 Richard Strauss conducts the first performance of his tone poem Eine Alpensinfonie in Berlin.
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28 Oct 1918 World War I: Czechoslovakia is granted independence from Austria-Hungary marking the beginning of an independent Czechoslovak state, after 300 years.
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28 Oct 1918 A new Polish government in Western Galicia is established.
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28 Oct 1918 Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up
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28 Oct 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.
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28 Oct 1919 Volstead Act passed by Congress, start prohibition over Wilson's veto
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28 Oct 1922 March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.
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28 Oct 1922 1st coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game
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28 Oct 1922 Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government
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28 Oct 1924 French-Russian trade agreement signed
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28 Oct 1924 White Sox beat the New York Giants 8-4 in Dublin, less than 20 fans attend
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28 Oct 1927 Josip Broz (Tito) begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia
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28 Oct 1927 KLM-plane "Homing Pigeon" leaves Netherlands Indies after 1st regular flight
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28 Oct 1928 Bradman scores 131 NSW vs. Queensland, 212 mins, 14 fours
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28 Oct 1928 Indonesian child laws enfoced in Bahasa Indonesia
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28 Oct 1928 Declaration of the Youth Pledge in Indonesia, the first time Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem, was sung.
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28 Oct 1929 Dow Jones plummets 38.33 pts (13%) to 260.64
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28 Oct 1929 Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
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28 Oct 1929 1st child born in aircraft, Miami, Fl
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28 Oct 1934 Brooklyn & Pittsburgh play a penalty free NFL game
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28 Oct 1936 FDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary
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28 Oct 1938 Farewell parade of International Brigade (Barcelona)
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28 Oct 1939 Anti-German demonstrations / strikes in Czechoslovakia
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28 Oct 1939 Spitfire shoots German Heinkel-111 down above Scotland
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28 Oct 1940 Meeting between Hitler and Mussolini in Florence
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28 Oct 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.
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28 Oct 1940 Greece successfully resists Italy's attack
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28 Oct 1942 6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery
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28 Oct 1942 Train crashes into bus, killing 16 and injuring 20 (Detroit, Michigan)
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28 Oct 1942 The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.
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28 Oct 1943 U-220 sinks
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28 Oct 1944 Russia and Bulgaria sign weapon pact
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28 Oct 1946 German rocket engineers begin work in the USSR
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28 Oct 1948 Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
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28 Oct 1948 Flag of Israel is adopted
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28 Oct 1949 Eugenie Anderson is 1st woman US ambassador (to Denmark)
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28 Oct 1949 Georges Bidault elected President of France
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28 Oct 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
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28 Oct 1953 Red Barber, resigns as Dodger sportscaster to join Yankees
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28 Oct 1953 Bud Grant of Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record)
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28 Oct 1954 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway
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28 Oct 1954 Ernest Hemingway wins Nobel prize for literature
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28 Oct 1955 Egypt and Saudi-Arabia sign defense treaty
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28 Oct 1956 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Luctuosissimi eventus
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28 Oct 1957 WMVS TV channel 10 in Milwaukee, WI (PBS) begins broadcasting
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28 Oct 1958 Pete Runnels wins Comeback Player of Year (average went from .230 to .322)
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28 Oct 1958 John XXIII is elected Pope.
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28 Oct 1958 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking the name John XXIII
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28 Oct 1959 Buffalo Bills enter the AFL
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28 Oct 1961 "Fiorello!" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 796 performances
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28 Oct 1961 Ground broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium for New York Mets
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28 Oct 1962 New York Giant YA Tittle passes for 7 touchdowns vs. Washington Redskins (49-34)
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28 Oct 1962 Radio Moscow reports nuclear missiles in Cuba deactivated
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28 Oct 1962 End of Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
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28 Oct 1962 Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis
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28 Oct 1964 Vietnam War: U.S. officials deny any involvement in bombing North Vietnam.
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28 Oct 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.
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28 Oct 1965 Construction on the St. Louis Arch is completed.
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28 Oct 1965 Gateway Arch (630' (190m) high) completed in St Louis, Missouri
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28 Oct 1965 Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion
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28 Oct 1966 Belgium's Gaston Roelants runs 12-4/5 miles in 1 hour
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28 Oct 1970 NBA Cleveland Cavaliers 1st home game, lose to San Diego 110-99
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28 Oct 1970 US/USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts
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28 Oct 1971 John andYoko record "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in New York City
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28 Oct 1971 Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket.
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28 Oct 1971 England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit
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28 Oct 1971 John & Yoko record "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in NYC
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28 Oct 1972 "Mother Earth" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 12 performances
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28 Oct 1973 Sharon Miller wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
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28 Oct 1973 Elmore Smith of the Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game (NBA record)
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28 Oct 1974 Luna 23 launched (landing on Moon)
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28 Oct 1974 1st time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game-MacMillian & Westfall
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28 Oct 1975 Cleveland Metroparks assume operating responsibilities for Zoo
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28 Oct 1975 Calvin Murphy (Houston) begins NBA free throw streak of 58 games
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28 Oct 1976 Train collision at Goes Neth, 7 die
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28 Oct 1976 Billy Martin named AL Manager of the Year (NY Yankees)
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28 Oct 1977 TV's Rhoda gets married
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28 Oct 1978 Don Ritchie runs world record 100k (6:10:20)
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28 Oct 1978 Donald Ritchie ran the fastest 100 Km ever, doing it in 7.2722
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28 Oct 1979 Dick Howser (best Yank mngr win-lost pct .636) replaces Billy Martin
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28 Oct 1981 New York Yankee George Frazier loses 3 World Series games
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28 Oct 1981 Edward M McIntrye elected 1st black mayor of Augusta Georgia
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28 Oct 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.
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28 Oct 1982 NASA launches RCA-E
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28 Oct 1984 15th NYC Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:14:53
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28 Oct 1984 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Nichirei Cup Team Match Golf Tournament
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28 Oct 1985 Ravi Ratnayeke takes 8-83 for Sri Lanka vs. Pakistan
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28 Oct 1986 KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM changes call letters to KKOB
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28 Oct 1986 KOB-TV in Albuquerque NM's final transmission
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28 Oct 1988 Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gives $10 million to University of Washington Library
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28 Oct 1988 Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister
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28 Oct 1989 Oakland Athletics sweep SF Giants in earthquake / BART series
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28 Oct 1990 The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic holds the first multiparty legislature election in the country's history.
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28 Oct 1992 Lee Jang Rim predicts that today would be the end of the world!
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28 Oct 1993 Cleveland Metroparks lease Brookside Park from Cleveland for 99-years
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28 Oct 1993 Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters resigns
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28 Oct 1994 Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth for 3rd time
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28 Oct 1995 Atlanta Braves beat Cleveland Indians in 6 games in World Series
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28 Oct 1995 Two hundred eighty-nine people are killed and 265 injured in Baku Metro fire, the deadliest subway disaster.
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28 Oct 1997 NBA announces hiring of Dee Kantner and Violet Palmer as 1st women to officiate a major-league all-male sports league
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28 Oct 1998 An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan.
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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.
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28 Oct 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.
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28 Oct 2006 A group of ferocious activists of Bangladesh Awami League attacked one of their rival political party meeting in Dhaka with oars and sculls and killed their 14 activists.
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28 Oct 2007 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first woman elected President of Argentina.
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28 Oct 2009 The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.
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28 Oct 2009 NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program.
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28 Oct 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.
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28 Oct 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.
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