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October 28

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Greco-Italian War

85 years ago

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1955

Bill Gates

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Battle of the Milvian Bridge

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Famous births25

1016 · 1009 yrs

Henry III

Henry III (German: Heinrich III, 28 October 1016 – 5 October 1056), called Heinrich the Pious, was Holy Roman Emperor from 1046 until his death in 1056. A member of the Salian dynasty, he was the eldest son of Conrad II and Gisela of Swabia.

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1466 · 559 yrs

Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus ( DEZ-i-DEER-ee-əs irr-AZ-məs; Dutch:; 28 October c. 1466 – 12 July 1536), commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch humanist, theologian, and philosopher.

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ReligionDied aged 69

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1815 · 210 yrs

Ľudovít Štúr

Ľudovít Štúr (Slovak pronunciation:; 28 October 1815 – 12 January 1856), also known as Ľudovít Velislav Štúr, was a Slovak revolutionary, philosopher, politician and writer. He was a leader of the Slovak national revival in the 19th century and the codifier of standard Slovak.

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LiteratureDied aged 40

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1818 · 207 yrs

Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818–1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West. His first major publication, a short story collection titled A Sportsman's Sketches (1852), was a milestone of Russian realism.

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LiteratureDied aged 64

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1885 · 140 yrs

Velimir Khlebnikov

Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov, better known by the pen name Velimir Khlebnikov (Russian: Велими́р Хле́бников, IPA:; 9 November 1885 – 28 June 1922), was a Russian poet and playwright, a central part of the Russian Futurist movement, but his work and influence stretch far beyond it.

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1902 · 123 yrs

Elsa Lanchester

Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (28 October 1902 – 26 December 1986) was a British actress with a long career in theatre, film and television. Lanchester studied dance as a child and after the First World War began performing in theatre and cabaret, where she established her career over the following decade.

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1903 · 122 yrs

Evelyn Waugh

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer.

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1909 · 116 yrs

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery.

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1914 · 111 yrs

Jonas Salk

Jonas Edward Salk (born Jonas Salk; October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. He was born in New York City and attended the City College of New York and New York University School of Medicine.

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1914 · 111 yrs

Richard Laurence Millington Synge

Richard Laurence Millington Synge (28 October 1914 – 18 August 1994) was an English biochemist, and shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Archer Martin.

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1929 · 96 yrs

Joan Plowright

Joan Ann Olivier, Baroness Olivier (née Plowright; 28 October 1929 – 16 January 2025), commonly known as Dame Joan Plowright, was an English actress whose career spanned eight decades.

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1930 · 95 yrs

Bernie Ecclestone

Bernard Charles Ecclestone (born 28 October 1930) is a British business magnate, motorsport executive and former racing driver. Widely known in journalism as the "F1 Supremo", Ecclestone founded the Formula One Group in 1987, controlling the commercial rights to Formula One until 2017.

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Famous deaths16

1618 · 407 yrs

Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1553 – 29 October 1618) was an English statesman, soldier, writer and explorer.

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LiteratureDied aged 66

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1627 · 398 yrs

Jahangir I

Nur ud-din Muhammad Salim (Persian: نورالدین محمد سلیم /sə.liːm]; 31 August 1569 – 28 October 1627), known by his royal name Jahangir (Persian: جهانگیر, Persian pronunciation:), was the fourth Mughal emperor of the Mughal Empire, reigning from 1605 until his death in 1627.

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RoyaltyDied aged 58

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1703 · 322 yrs

John Wallis

John Wallis (Latin: Wallisius; 3 December 1616 – 8 November 1703) was an English clergyman and mathematician, who is given partial credit for the development of infinitesimal calculus. Between 1643 and 1689 Wallis served as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.

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ScienceDied aged 86

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1704 · 321 yrs

John Locke

John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".

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PhilosophyDied aged 72

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1818 · 207 yrs

Abigail Adams

Abigail Adams (née Smith; 22 November 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the wife and closest advisor of John Adams, the second president of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States.

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PoliticsDied aged 73

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1900 · 125 yrs

Friedrich Max Müller

Friedrich Max Müller (German:; 6 December 1823 – 28 October 1900) was a German-born British comparative philologist and Orientalist. He was one of the founders of the Western academic disciplines of Indology and religious studies.

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LiteratureDied aged 76

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1929 · 96 yrs

Bernhard von Bülow

Bernhard Heinrich Karl Martin, Prince of Bülow (German: Bernhard Heinrich Karl Martin Fürst von Bülow; 3 May 1849 – 28 October 1929) was a German politician who served as the imperial chancellor of the German Empire and minister-president of Prussia from 1900 to 1909.

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PoliticsDied aged 80

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1939 · 86 yrs

Alice Brady

Alice Brady (born Mary Rose Brady; November 2, 1892 – October 28, 1939) was an American actress of stage and film. She began her career in the theatre in 1911, and her first important success came on Broadway in 1912 when she created the role of Meg March in the original production of Marian de Forest's Little Women.

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1959 · 66 yrs

Camilo Cienfuegos

Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán (Spanish:; 6 February 1932 – 28 October 1959) was a Cuban revolutionary. One of the major figures of the Cuban Revolution, he was considered second only to Fidel Castro among the revolutionary leadership.

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1969 · 56 yrs

Korney Chukovsky

Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky (Russian: Корней Иванович Чуковский, IPA:; 31 March NS 1882 – 28 October 1969) was one of the most popular children's poets in the Russian language. His catchy rhythms, inventive rhymes and absurd characters have invited comparisons with the American children's author Dr.

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1998 · 27 yrs

Ted Hughes

Edward James Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.

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2005 · 20 yrs

Richard Smalley

Richard Errett Smalley (June 6, 1943 – October 28, 2005) was an American chemist who was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy at Rice University.

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Events5

AD 312 · 1713 yrs

Battle of the Milvian Bridge

The Battle of the Milvian Bridge took place between the Roman Emperors Constantine I and Maxentius on 28 October AD 312. It takes its name from the Milvian Bridge, an important route over the Tiber.

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War

1940 · 85 yrs

Greco-Italian War

The Greco-Italian War, also called the Italo-Greek War, took place between Italy and Greece from 28 October 1940 to 23 April 1941. This conflict began the Balkans campaign of World War II between the Axis powers and the Allies, and eventually turned into the Battle of Greece with British and German involvement.

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War

1940 · 85 yrs

World War II in the Balkans

The Balkans campaign of World War II began with the Italian invasion of Greece on 28 October 1940. In the early months of 1941, Italy's offensive had stalled and a Greek counter-offensive pushed into Albania.

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War

1940 · 85 yrs

Ohi Day

Ohi Day (Greek: Επέτειος του Όχι, romanized: Epéteios tou Óchi, lit. 'Anniversary of the No'; Greek pronunciation:) is celebrated throughout Greece, Cyprus and the Greek communities around the world on 28 October each year.

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History

2018 · 7 yrs

2018 Mexican Grand Prix

The 2018 Mexican Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Gran Premio de México 2018) was a Formula One motor race held on 28 October 2018 at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City.

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