History Events on October 28

Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.

#DDT

Ladislaus the Posthumous is crowned king of Bohemia in Prague.

#Ladislaus_the_Posthumous

The Mino-Owari earthquake is the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history.

#1891_Mino-Owari_earthquake

American Revolutionary War: British troops attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Continental Army.

#Battle_of_White_Plains

Emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.

#Nerva

Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.

#Christian_I_of_Denmark

Beijing is officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty when the Forbidden City is completed.

#Ming_dynasty

Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.

#March_on_Rome

The lower town of Smyrna is captured by Crusaders in response to Ayd?nid piracy.

#Smyrniote_crusades

The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino is founded in what is now the Dominican Republic.

#Universidad_Santo_Tomás_de_Aquino

President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.

#Statue_of_Liberty

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first woman elected President of Argentina.

#Cristina_Fernández_de_Kirchner

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 Virginia.

#Cygnus_CRS_Orb-3

The novel Gulliver's Travels is published.

#Gulliver's_Travels

The Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem, is first sung.

#Indonesia_Raya

First World War: A new Polish government in western Galicia is established, triggering the Polish-Ukrainian War.

#Polish-Ukrainian_War

Cuban Missile Crisis: Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.

#Cuban_Missile_Crisis

Prospero becomes the only British satellite to be launched by a British rocket.

#Prospero_(satellite)

NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its short-lived Constellation program.

#Ares_I-X

The Pinjarra massacre occurs in the Swan River Colony. An estimated 30 Noongar people are killed by British colonists.

#Pinjarra_massacre

Elvis Presley receives a polio vaccination on national TV.

#Polio_vaccine

First World War: The Czechoslovak declaration of independence is proclaimed in Prague.

#Czechoslovak_declaration_of_independence

The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.

#Volstead_Act

Maxentius is proclaimed Roman emperor.

#Maxentius

Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman emperor in the West.

#Battle_of_the_Milvian_Bridge

The Byzantine Empire recovers Antioch from Arab rule.

#Siege_of_Antioch_(968-969)

Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World.

#Christopher_Columbus

The 1707 H?ei earthquake causes more than 5,000 deaths in Japan.

#1707_H?ei_earthquake

Second World War: Greece rejects Italy's ultimatum. Italy invades Greece through Albania a few hours later.

#Ohi_Day

French Wars of Religion: The Siege of La Rochelle ends with the surrender of the Huguenots after fourteen months.

#Siege_of_La_Rochelle

The United Tribes of New Zealand are established with the signature of the Declaration of Independence.

#Declaration_of_the_Independence_of_New_Zealand

A funeral service takes place at the Bykivnia graves for those Ukrainians who were killed by the Soviet secret police.

#Bykivnia_graves

Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death.

#Symphony_No._6_(Tchaikovsky)

The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.

#Royal_Marines

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

Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers at the Tiananmen Square in China.

#2013_Tiananmen_Square_attack

The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.

Vice-president Cheney's chief of staff is indicted due to his involvement in the Plame affair.

The Baku Metro fire sees 289 people killed and 270 injured.

Georgia holds its only free election under Soviet rule.

The Spanish general election begins fourteen years of rule by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.

Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate, by which the Church officially recognizes the legitimacy of non-Christian faiths.

John XXIII is elected Pope.

An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashes in the Azores, killing all 48 people on board.

The Alaska Highway first connects Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada.

American Civil War: A Union attack on the Confederate capital is repulsed.

The Massachusetts Bay Colony votes to establish a theological college, which would later become Harvard University.

Abyssinian-Adal war: The Adal Sultanate seizes southern Ethiopia.

Ottoman-Mamluk War: Mamluks fail to stop the Ottoman advance towards Egypt.