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, 1,761,609,600 seconds 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

• 312 –
  Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman Emperor.
• 1775 –
  American Revolutionary War: A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston.
• 1776 –
  American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Plains – British Army forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans.
• 1834 –
  The Battle of Pinjarra is fought in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
• 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 –
  World War I: Czechoslovakia is granted independence from Austria-Hungary marking the beginning of an independent Czechoslovak state, after 300 years.
• 1942 –
  The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.
• 1958 –
  John XXIII, is elected Pope.
• 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 responsibility for the death of Jesus, reversing Innocent III’s 760 year-old declaration.
• 2005 –
  Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.

Who were born on October 28?

• 1877 –
  Joe Adams, American baseball player (d. 1952)
• 1884 –
  William Douglas Cook, New Zealander horticulturalist (d. 1967)
• 1922 –
  Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician (d. 2003)
• 1958 –
  William Reid, Scottish musician (The Jesus and Mary Chain)
• 1959 –
  James Keelaghan, Canadian folk singer-songwriter
• 1962 –
  Daphne Zuniga, American actress
• 1966 –
  Steve Atwater, American football player
• 1969 –
  Ben Harper, American musician
• 1980 –
  Dimitri Liakopoulos, Greek actor
• 1981 –
  Nate McLouth, American baseball player

Who died on October 28?

• 312 –
  Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. c.278)
• 1412 –
  Margaret I of Denmark, wife of Haakon VI of Norway (b. 1353)
• 1792 –
  John Smeaton, British civil engineer (b. 1724)
• 1916 –
  Oswald Boelcke, German WWI pilot (b. 1891)
• 1952 –
  Billy Hughes, Australian politician (b. 1862)
• 1965 –
  Earl Bostic, American saxophonist (b. 1913)
• 2000 –
  Andujar Cedeno, Dominican baseball player (b. 1969)
• 2004 –
  Jimmy McLarnin, Northern Irish-born boxer (b. 1907)
• 2005 –
  Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
• 2010 –
  Liang Congjie, Chinese environmentalist (b. 1932)