What are the important events that happened on October 28? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

October 28: Facts & Myths About This Day

October 28 is the 301^st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 64 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 15, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 489,336 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectahenagon’ day.

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.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 112 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,694 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

October 28 Historical Events

• 1664 –
  The Duke of York and Albany’s Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.
• 1707 –
  The 1707 Hōei earthquake causes more than 5,000 deaths in Honshu, Shikoku and Kyūshū, Japan
• 1864 –
  American Civil War: The Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road (also known as the Second Battle of Fair Oaks) ends – Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond, Virginia.
• 1893 –
  Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique, receives its première performance in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composer’s death.
• 1918 –
  A new Polish government in Western Galicia is established.
• 1948 –
  Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
• 1971 –
  Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket.
• 1995 –
  289 people are killed and 265 injured in Baku Metro fire, the deadliest subway disaster.
• 1998 –
  An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan.
• 2006 –
  The funeral service takes place for those executed at Bykivnia forest, outside Kiev, Ukraine. 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s – early 1940s are reburied.

Who were born on October 28?

• 1691 –
  Peder Tordenskjold, Norwegian naval hero (d. 1720)
• 1804 –
  Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (d. 1849)
• 1885 –
  Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (d. 1922)
• 1889 –
  Juliette Béliveau, Quebec comedian (d. 1975)
• 1936 –
  Carl Davis, American-born British conductor and composer
• 1941 –
  Curtis Lee, American singer
• 1946 –
  Wim Jansen, Dutch footballer and coach
• 1950 –
  Sihem Bensedrine, Tunisian human rights activist
• 1960 –
  Mark Derwin, American actor
• 1979 –
  Aki Hakala, Finnish musician

Who died on October 28?

• 1485 –
  Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch humanist (b. 1443)
• 1646 –
  William Dobson, English painter (b. 1610)
• 1704 –
  John Locke, English philosopher (b. 1632)
• 1708 –
  Prince George of Denmark, consort of Anne of England (b. 1653)
• 1857 –
  Louis Eugène Cavaignac, French soldier and politician (b. 1802)
• 1918 –
  Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician (b. 1845)
• 1939 –
  Alice Brady, American actress (b. 1892)
• 1957 –
  Ernst Gräfenberg, German physician and scientist (b. 1881)
• 1987 –
  André Masson, French artist (b. 1896)
• 2010 –
  Liang Congjie, Chinese environmentalist (b. 1932)