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October 28: Day of the Week
October 28, 2024 is the 302nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 64 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Monday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is lundi.
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Here’s the October calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
October 28 Historical Event(s)
97
Emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard, to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.
1061
Empress Agnes, acting as Regent for her son, brings about the election of Bishop Cadalus, the Antipope Honorius II.
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.
1848
The first railroad in Spain – between Barcelona and Mataró – is opened.
1915
Richard Strauss conducts the first performance of his tone poem Eine Alpensinfonie in Berlin.
1918
World War I: Czechoslovakia is granted independence from Austria-Hungary marking the beginning of an independent Czechoslovak state, after 300 years.
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he had ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
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.
2007
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first woman elected President of Argentina.
2009
NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program.
Who were born on October 28?
1466
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, Dutch theologian and Catholic priest (d. 1536)
1917
Jack Soo, American actor (d. 1979)
1928
Ion Mihai Pacepa, Romanian general
1932
Spyros Kyprianou, Cyprian politician (d. 2002)
1935
Alan Clarke, British film director (d. 1990)
1938
David Dimbleby, English television commentator
1946
Wim Jansen, Dutch footballer and coach
1959
James Keelaghan, Canadian folk singer-songwriter
1963
Lauren Holly, American actress
1973
Aleksandar Stanojević, Serbian football manager and former player
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