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28 October, 2007
The Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360 versions of Guitar Hero III were released.
28 October, 2006
Voting on a new constitution that would make Kosovo officially a part of Serbia begins; voter turnout on day one was low. Funeral service for the peace of the executed at Bykivnia forest, outside of Kiev, Ukraine, with reburial of 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s – early 1940s.
28 October, 2005
Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheneys chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.
28 October, 1998
An Air China (Mainland China) jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan.
28 October, 1997
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains a record 337.17 points to close at 7,498.32.
28 October, 1988
The French drug manufacturer Roussel Uclaf states that it will resume distribution of the so-called abortion drug RU-486.
28 October, 1986
The centennial of the Statue of Libertys dedication is re-celebrated in New York Harbor.
28 October, 1985
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and makes peace overtures to the United States; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
28 October, 1976
John D. Ehrlichman, former domestic policy adviser of President Nixon and convicted Watergate felon, arrives at the Swift Trail Camp minimum-security facility in southeastern Arizona.
28 October, 1972
The first Airbus A300 flies into the skies.
28 October, 1971
Britain launches its first (and as of 2007, only) satellite, Prospero, into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket.
28 October, 1970
The land speed record set by Gary Gabelich in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
28 October, 1965
French foreign minister Couve de Murville travels to Moscow.
28 October, 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 the alleged killing of Jesus, reversing Innocent IIIs declaration from 760 years ago. In short, Pope Paul VI announces that the ecumenical council has decided that Jews are not collectively responsible for the killing of Christ. In St. Louis, Missouri, the 630-foot-tall parabolic (catenarian) stainless steel Gateway Arch monument is completed.
28 October, 1964
Vietnam War: U.S. officials deny any involvement in bombing North Vietnam.
28 October, 1962
Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he had ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. Y.A. Tittle of the New York Giants became the third quarterback in NFL history to throw seven touchdown passes in one game.
28 October, 1956
The second-generation Tsutenkaku tower in Osaka is opened to the public.
28 October, 1954
The modern Kingdom of the Netherlands is re-founded as a federal monarchy.
28 October, 1948
Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
28 October, 1943
The alleged Philadelphia Experiment supposedly occurred.
28 October, 1942
The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.
28 October, 1942
Holocaust: 2,000 Jewish children and 6,000 Jewish adults from Cracow are deported by Germans to Belzec death camp. SS directive orders all Jewish childrens mittens and stockings to be sent from the death camps to the SS families.
28 October, 1941
Holocaust in Kaunas, Lithuania: German SS forces arrange the massacre of more than 9,000 Jews of the Kaunas ghetto. After the victims assembled on the Demokratu square at 6 am to be shot they are buried in gigantic ditches.
28 October, 1940
World War II: Italy invades Greece through Albania. This was the selected anniversary of Greeces entry into World War II. It is celebrated in Greece as Okhi Day (???=No) Day.
28 October, 1936
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.
28 October, 1922
March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.
28 October, 1919
The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilsons veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
28 October, 1918
World War I: Czechoslovakia is granted its independence from Austria-Hungary. The German fleet is immobilized when sailors mutiny en masse and disobey an order to leave port five times; 1,000 would ultimately be arrested. New Polish government in Western Galicia (Central Europe) is established.
28 October, 1914
The single largest one-day percentage decline of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the recorded history of the New York stock market.
28 October, 1905
George Bernard Shaws Mrs. Warrens Profession is first performed in New York; though it had previously been performed in London, it had been censored, and the American performance was the first on the public stage.
28 October, 1893
Tchaikovksys Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique, premiered in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composers death.
28 October, 1891
The Mino-Owari Earthquake, the largest earthquake in Japans history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.
28 October, 1886
In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
28 October, 1868
Thomas Edison applied for his first patent, an electrical vote recorder.
28 October, 1864
American Civil War: Second Battle of Fair Oaks ends - Union Army forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond, Virginia.
28 October, 1848
The first railroad in Spain - between Barcelona and Mataró - is opened.
28 October, 1834
The Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
28 October, 1776
American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Plains - British Army forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans.
28 October, 1775
American Revolutionary War A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston.
28 October, 1664
The Duke of York and Albanys Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.
28 October, 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.
28 October, 1628
The Siege of La Rochelle, which had been ongoing for 14 months, ends with Huguenot surrender
28 October, 1538
The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.
28 October, 1531
Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi again defeats the army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia. The southern part of Ethiopia falls under Imam Ahmads control.
28 October, 1520
Pier Gerlofs Donia, the legendary Frisian warrior, folk hero and giant freedom fighter, dies aged 40 in Kimswerd, Frisia.
28 October, 1516
Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza.
28 October, 1061
Empress Agnes, acting as Regent for her son, brings about the election of Bishop Cadalus, the antipope Honorius II
28 October, 312
Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman Emperor.
28 October, 306
Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor.

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