Today in History
28 October
243 births · 113 deaths · 57 events recorded
Featured Birthday · Born 1944
Coluche
French stage comedian and film actor (1944–1986)
Notable Births
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Yoon Do-young
b. 2006
South Korean footballer (born 2006)
Sonay Kartal
b. 2001
British tennis player (born 2001)
Nolan Gould
b. 1998
American actor (born 1998)
Stetson Bennett
b. 1997
American football player (born 1997)
Taylor Fritz
b. 1997
American tennis player (born 1997)
Georgia Godwin
b. 1997
Australian artistic gymnast
Bill Gates
b. 1955
American businessman and philanthropist (born 1955)
Coluche
b. 1944
French stage comedian and film actor (1944–1986)
Notable Deaths
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Renato Martino
d. 2024
Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (1932–2024)
Paul Morrissey
d. 2024
American film director (1938–2024)
Jamshid Sharmahd
d. 2024
German affiliate of Kingdom Assembly of Iran (1955–2024)
Kazuo Umezu
d. 2024
Japanese manga artist (1936–2024)
Matthew Perry
d. 2023
American and Canadian actor (1969–2023)
Adam Johnson (ice hockey)
d. 2023
American ice hockey player (1994–2023)
Jerry Lee Lewis
d. 2022
American musician (1935–2022)
Jonathan Motzfeldt
d. 2010
Prime Minister of Greenland (1979–1991; 1997–2002)
On This Day in History
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2025
Hurricane Melissa makes landfall near Black River, Jamaica, killing over 30 people, as well as tying the 1935 Labor Day hurricane as the most intense landfall in the North Atlantic.
Hurricane Melissa
2023
The 2023 Rugby World Cup final is held at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France. It saw South Africa defeat New Zealand 12 to 11, claiming their fourth Webb Ellis Cup, becoming the first nation to do so.
2023 Rugby World Cup final
2018
Jair Bolsonaro is elected president of Brazil with 57 million votes, with Workers' Party candidate Fernando Haddad as the runner-up. It is the first time in 16 years that a Workers' Party candidate is not elected president.
Jair Bolsonaro
2014
A 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 Wallops Island, Virginia.
Cygnus Orb-3
2013
Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers at Tiananmen Square in China.
2013 Tiananmen Square attack
2009
The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.
28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing
2009
NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its short-lived Constellation program.
NASA
2009
US President Barack Obama signs the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
Barack Obama