28 October
Notable Births
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
Commander in Chief (TV series)
b. 1996
American television program
Jack Eichel
b. 1996
American ice hockey player (born 1996)
Glen Kamara
b. 1995
Finnish footballer (born 1995)
Jae'Sean Tate
b. 1995
American basketball player (born 1995)
An Ye-seul
b. 1995
South Korean singer (born 1995)
Andrew Harrison (basketball)
b. 1994
American basketball player (born 1994)
Jeon Ji-hee
b. 1992
Chinese-South Korean table tennis player
Maria Sergejeva
b. 1992
Estonian figure skater and model
Lucy Bronze
b. 1991
English footballer (born 1991)
Devin Ebanks
b. 1989
American basketball player (born 1989)
Camille Muffat
b. 1989
French swimmer (1989–2015)
Edd Gould
b. 1988
British animator (1988–2012)
Devon Murray
b. 1988
Irish actor (born 1988)
Jamie xx
b. 1988
British DJ and producer (born 1988)
Notable Deaths
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)
Colin Sylvia
d. 2018
Australian rules footballer (1985–2018)
Galway Kinnell
d. 2014
American poet
Michael Sata
d. 2014
President of Zambia from 2011 to 2014
Tetsuharu Kawakami
d. 2013
Japanese baseball player and manager (1920–2013)
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
d. 2013
40th Prime Minister of Poland (1989–91)
Aleksandar Tijanić
d. 2013
Serbian journalist
Rajendra Yadav
d. 2013
Indian writer (1929–2013)
Gordon Bilney
d. 2012
Australian politician (1939–2012)
Tom Addington
d. 2011
British Army soldier
Liang Congjie
d. 2010
Chinese historian and activist
James MacArthur
d. 2010
American actor and recording artist (1937–2010)
Jonathan Motzfeldt
d. 2010
Prime Minister of Greenland (1979–1991; 1997–2002)
Ehud Netzer
d. 2010
Israeli archaeologist
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
2007
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first directly elected female President of Argentina.
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
2006
A funeral service takes place at the Bykivnia graves for Ukrainians who were killed by the Soviet secret police.
Bykivnia graves
1995
The Baku Metro fire sees 289 people killed and 270 injured.
1995 Baku Metro fire
1990
Georgia holds its only free election under Soviet rule.
1990 Georgian Supreme Soviet election
1989
Aloha Island Air Flight 1712, a Twin Otter 300, crashed into terrain at night in Hawaii killing all 20 occupants onboard.
Aloha IslandAir Flight 1712
1982
The Spanish general election begins fourteen years of rule by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.
1982 Spanish general election
1971
Prospero becomes the only British satellite to be launched by a British rocket.
Prospero (spacecraft)
1965
Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate, by which the Roman Catholic Church officially recognizes the legitimacy of non-Christian faiths.
Pope Paul VI
1962
The Cuban Missile Crisis ends and Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
Cuban Missile Crisis
1958
John XXIII is elected Pope.
Pope John XXIII
1956
Hungarian Revolution: A de facto ceasefire comes into effect between armed revolutionaries and Soviet troops, who begin to withdraw from Budapest. Communist officials and facilities come under attack by revolutionaries.
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
1954
Aeroflot Flight 136 crashes near Krasnoyarsk, killing 19.
Aeroflot Flight 136