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1017 Henry III, Roman Catholic German emperor (1046-56) 1435 Andrea della Robbia, Italian artist (Earth work relief) 1510 Francisco Borgia, great grandson of pope Alexander VI/theologist/saint 1585 Cornelius Otto Jansen, France, Roman Catholic reform leader 1709 John Wagenaar, historian (Amsterdam Rise) 1793 Eliphalet Remington, US gun maker 1804 Pierre F Verhulst, Belgium, mathematician (logistic curve) 1810 Adley Hogan Gladden, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 1818 Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons) 1834 Dudley McIver DuBose, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1883 1842 Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, orator (Joan of Arc of the Civil War) 1842 Charles Boissevain, editor-in-chief General Trade journal (1885-1908) 1846 Auguste Escoffier, king of chefs & chef of kings 1855 Ivan V Mitsjurin, Russian botanist (new types of fruit) 1876 Albert E Michotte van den Berck, Belgian psychologist 1886 Grigor K Ordzjonikidze, [Sergo], Russian revolutionary politician 1892 Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer (Night Watch) 1896 Howard Hanson, Wahoo Nebraska, composer/conductor (Nordic) 1897 Hans Speidel, nazi staff chief/NATO-supreme commander 19-- Dennis Parker, [Wade Nichols] actor/porno star (Edge of Night) 19-- Rose Alaio, actor (Guiding Light) 1902 Elsa Lanchester, Lewisham London, actress (Bride of Frankenstien) 1903 Evelyn Waugh, London, author (Brideshead Revisited, Scoop) 1907 Edith Head, fashion designer (MGM) 1907 Lew Parker, actor (Lou Marie-That Girl) 1909 Francis Bacon, British painter 1910 Marie Dollinger, Germany, dropped bataan in 1936 Olympic sprint 1914 Jonas Salk, NYC, medical reseacher, made polio a fear of the past 1915 Dody Goodman, Columbus Ohio, comedienne (Mary Hartman) 1925 Wim Keja, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (VVD) 1926 Bowie Kuhn, baseball commissioner (1969-1984) 1927 Cleo Laine, Middlesex England, singer (Flesh to a Tiger) 1928 Wim van Heumen, coach of Dutch hockey team 1929 Dody Goodman, Columbus Ohio, actress (Mary Hartman!, Max Duggan) 1929 Joan Plowright, England, actress (Brimstone & Treacle) 1934 Jim Beatty, track runner (1st sub 4 minute indoor mile) 1936 Charlie Daniels, country fiddler (Devil Went Down to Georgia) 1937 Lenny Wilkins, NBA player, coach (Seattle, Cleveland) 1939 Jane Alexander, [Quigley], Mass, actress (Betsy, Kramer vs Kramer) 1940 Gennadi Mikhailovich Strekalov, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-3, T-8, T-11) 1942 Kees Verkerk, skater World Champion (1967)/(Olympics-gold-68) 1944 Coluche France, comedian/actor (My Best Friend's Girl) 1944 Dennis Franz, Maywood Ill, actor (Norman Buntz-Hill Street Blues) 1945 Wayne Fontana, Manchester England, rocker (Groovy Kind of Love) 1947 Tom Fitzsimmons, SF Calif, actor (Franklin-Paper Chase) 1948 Telma Hopkins, Louisville, singer (Tony Orlando, Family Matters) 1948 Valeri Vasiliyevich Baberdin, Russian colonel/cosmonaut 1949 Bruce Jenner, US, decathalete (Olympic-gold-1976) 1952 Annie Potts, Nashville TN, actress (Mary Jo-Designing Women) 1953 Lauren Tewes, Trafford Pa, actress (Julie McCoy-Love Boat) 1955 William Gates, billionaire CEO (Microsoft) 1957 Stephen Morris, rocker (New Order-Round & Round) 1959 Neville Henry, rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways) 1959 Walther Bauersfeld, 1919 inventor (1st modern projection planetarium) 1960 Mark Derwin, Park Forest Ill, actor (AC Mallet-Guiding Light) 1962 Daphne Zuniga, actress (Gross Anatomy, Fly II, Spaceballs) 1963 Veronica Gamba, Buenos Aires Arg, playmate (November, 1983) 1965 Jami Gertz, Chicago, actress (Less the Zero, Crossroads, Solarbabies) 1966 Lauren Holly, actress (All My Children) 1967 Julia Roberts, Smyma Georgia, actress (Mystic Pizza, Pretty Woman) 1974 Leaf Phoenix, PR, actor (Russkies, Space Camp) Back to GREGSITE Passings for October 28900 Alfred the Great, English monarch, dies 1138 Boleslaw III Kryzwousty, [scheefmond], duke of Poland, dies 1627 Djehangir/Jahangir, great mogol of India, dies 1703 John Wallis, English mathematician/cryptographer (wig of W), dies 1899 C Grant B Allen, Canada, British writer (Woman Who Did), dies 1905 Alphonse Allais, French humorist/writer (Le chat noir), dies 1912 Edgar Tinel, Flemish composer (Le chant Grgorien), dies 1922 Hugo Verriest, Flemish writer/poet (Flemish Motion), dies 1929 Frst Bernhard von Blow, German chancellor/PM Prussia (1900-09), dies 1957 Anthony J Morabito, co-owner of SF '49ers, dies while watching a game 1980 Leon Janney, actor (Hawk), dies at 63 1987 Andr Masson, France, surrealist artist (Labyrinth), dies at 91 1991 Dudley McConnell, headed NASA's Earth Science Division, dies 1991 John Korbal, film historian (Marlene Dietrich), dies at 51 Back to GREGSITE Holidays for October 28[Cuba] Loss of Major Camila Cienfuegas [Czechoslovakia] Foundation of Republic Day (1918) [Greece, Cyprus] Ochi Day (against Mussolini's ultimatum) (1940) [US] Mother-in-Law's Day [New Zealand] Labour Day-last Monday in October [US some states] Veterans Day [US] Francis E Willard Day-temperance day Back to GREGSITE Interest events for October 28[RC, Ang, Luth] Feast of SS Simon & Jude, apostles [Lutheran] Protestant Reformation Day [Old RC] Christ the King Sunday Back to GREGSITE Special events for October 28[US, UK] Standard Time begins at 2 AM [US, UK] Set clock BACK 1 hr tomorrow (Daylight Savings ends 2 AM) 1061 Emperor disposes of bishop Cadalus & Pope Honorius II 1492 Columbus discovers Cuba 1610 Thomas West baron De La Mar appointed as 1st gov of Virginia colony 1636 Harvard University (Boston) established 1776 Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to NJ 1790 New York gives up claims to Vermont for $30,000 1793 Eli Whitney applies for a patent on cotton gin 1846 Pioneers suffer blizzard in Sierra Nevada; 42 die 1854 J Chacornac discovers asteroid #33 Polyhymnia 1858 Macys Dept store opens in NYC 1864 Battle of Wauhatchie, TN 1890 Last NL-AA World Series game Bkln ties Louisville 3 games & 1 tie 1891 Quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7,300 1900 After over 5 months Paris Olympic games close 1904 St Louis police try a new investigation method-fingerprints 1906 Belgian-British "Union Minstry of Haut-Katanga" begins 1908 W Lorenz discovers asteroid #674 Rachele 1911 Bill Dobbie of Calgary Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game 1914 Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, founded at Howard University, incorporates 1918 Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up 1919 Volstead Act passed by Congress, start prohibition over Wilson's veto 1922 1st coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game 1922 Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government 1924 French-Russian trade agreement signed 1924 White Sox beat NY Giants 8-4 in Dublin, less than 20 fans attend 1927 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1082 Pirola 1929 1st child born in aircraft, Miami, Fl 1934 Brooklyn & Pittsburgh play a penalty free NFL game 1936 FDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary 1938 International Brigade marches into Barcelona 1940 Greece successfully resists Italy's attack 1942 Train crashes into bus, killing 16 & injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan) 1944 Russia & Bulgaria sign weapon pact 1946 German rocket engineers begin work in USSR 1948 Flag of Israel is adopted 1949 Georges Bidault elected president of France 1953 Bud Grant of Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record) 1954 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #2322 Kitt Peak & #3572 1954 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway 1957 WMVS TV channel 10 in Milwaukee, WI (PBS) begins broadcasting 1958 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking name John XXIII 1959 Buffalo Bills enter AFL 1961 Ground broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium for NY Mets 1962 Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis 1962 NY Giant YA Tittle passes for 7 touchdowns vs Wash Redskins (49-34) 1962 Radio Moscow reports nuclear missiles in Cuba deactivated 1965 Gateway Arch (630' (190m) high) completed in St Louis, Missouri 1965 Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion 1966 Belgium's Gaston Roelants runs 12-4/5 miles in 1 hour 1970 NBA Cleve Cavaliers 1st home game, lose to San Diego 110-99 1970 US/USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts 1971 England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit 1971 John & Yoko record "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in NYC 1973 Elmore Smith of Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game (NBA record) 1973 F Borngen & K Kirsch discovers asteroid #3338 Richter 1974 1st time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game-MacMillian & Westfall 1975 Calvin Murphy (Houston) begins NBA free throw streak of 58 games 1976 Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (NY Yankees) 1976 L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #2188 Orlenok 1976 Train crashes at Goes, 7 die 1977 TV's Rhoda gets married 1978 Donald Ritchie runs fastest 100 Km ever, doing it in 7.2722 1978 H L Giclas discovers asteroid #2415 & #3487 1978 Purple Mountain Obs discovers asteroids #2209 Tianjin, #3476 & #3509 1979 Dick Howser (best Yank mngr win-lost pct .636) replaces Billy Martin 1981 Edward M McIntrye elected 1st black mayor of Augusta Georgia 1982 NASA launches RCA-E 1986 KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM changes call letters to KKOB 1986 KOB-TV in Albuquerque NM's final transmission 1987 S Ueda & H Kaneda discovers asteroid #3720 1988 Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister 1988 Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gives $10 million to U Wash library 1989 Oakland A's sweep SF Giants in earthquake/BART series 1992 Lee Jang Rim predicts that today would be the end of the world! Back to GREGSITE Facts for October 28øF highest temperature for this date in NYC øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC 301st day of year with 64 days left (Numerology = 2) Back to GREGSITE Songs released on October 2810/28/43 --- Pistol Packin' Mama --- Crosby, Bing 10/28/43 --- Blue Rain --- Miller, Glenn 10/28/57 --- April Love --- Boone, Pat 10/28/57 --- You Send Me --- Cooke, Sam 10/28/57 --- Little Bitty Pretty One --- Harris, Thurston 10/28/57 --- All The Way --- Sinatra, Frank 10/28/67 --- I Can See For Miles --- Who 10/28/72 --- If You Don't Know Me By Now --- Melvin, Harold & The Blue Notes 10/28/72 --- Papa Was A Rollin' Stone --- Temptations 10/28/89 --- Living In Sin --- Bon Jovi 10/28/89 --- Don't Know Much --- Ronstadt, Linda |
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