28 October

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Events

306 - Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
1420 - Beijing is proclaimed the caipital o Ming Dynasty Cheenae.
1492 - Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba.
1636 - Harvard Varsity in Massachusetts is foondit.
1707 - A yirdquauk kills ower 5,000 fowk in Japan.
1746 - A strong yirdquauk hits Lima, Peru, killin 18,000 fowk.
1848 - Spain's first railwey line opens.
1856 - Portugal's first railwey line is completit.
1869 - Dmitri Mendeleev publishes the Periodic cairt o the elements.
1886 - The Statue o Liberty, in the harbour o New York Ceety, is dedicatit, as a gift tae the Unitit States frae Fraunce.
1900 - The 1900 Simmer Olympics in Paris end.
1904 - Panama an Uruguay establish diplomatic relations.
1918 - Czechoslovakie gains unthirldom frae Austrick-Hungary.
1940 - Warld War II: Greece is invadit bi Italy.
1942 - The Alaska Highway is completit.
1954 - Ernest Hemingway wins the Nobel Prize in Leeteratur.
1958 - Pape John XXIII is electit.
1962 - End o the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1965 - Gatewey Airch in St. Louis, Missouri, is opened tae the public.
1995 - 289 fowk are kilt in the Baku Subway fire.
2007 - Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is electit Preses o Argentinae.
2009 - A bomb attack in Peshawar, Pakistan, kills 117 fowk.
2013 - The St. Jude Storm affects pairts o Northren an Wastren Europe.
2016 - Then-FBI Director James Comey propales a new investigation intae Hillary Clinton's emails, juist 11 days afore the US Preses election.
2017 - Iceland holds its seicont pairlamentar election in the space o a year.
2017 - Twa bomb attacks in Mogadishu, Somalie, kill at least 19 fowk.
2018 - Far-richt candidate Jair Bolsonaro is electit Preses o Brazil

Births

1017 - Henry III, Haly Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
1466 - Erasmus, Dutch humanist, priest, social creetic an theologian (d. 1536)
1726 - David Dalrymple, Laird Hailes, Scots advocate, juidge an historian (d. 1792)
1803 - Caroline Unger, Austro-Hungarian contralto (d. 1877)
1823 - William Simpson, Scots airtist an war correspondent (d. 1899)
1826 - Sir Andrew Clark, 1st Baronet, Scots medicinar an pathologist (d. 1893)
1836 - James Edward Tierney Aitchison, Scots surgeon an botanist (d. 1898)
1845 - Robert Gibb, Scots penter (d. 1932)
1848 - Thomas Millie Dow, Scots airtist (d. 1919)
1902 - Elsa Lanchester, Inglis actress (d. 1986)
1903 - Evelyn Waugh, Inglis writer (d. 1966)
1909 - Francis Bacon, Erse penter (d. 1992)
1914 - Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Inglis biochemist (d. 1994)
1925 - Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scots fitbawer (d. 2006)
1928 - Lawrie Reilly, Scots fitbawer (d. 2013)
1929 - Joan Plowright, Inglis actress
1930 - Bernie Ecclestone, Inglis businessman, umwhile heid o Formula Ane
1933 - Garrincha, Brazilian fitbawer (d. 1983)
1935 - Eddie O'Hara, Scots fitbawer (d. 2016)
1946 - Sandy Clark, Scots fitbawer
1949 - Caitlyn Jenner, American athlete an telly personality
1949 - John McGovern, Scots fitbawer
1955 - Bill Gates, American businessman
1956 - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, umwhile Preses o Iran
1963 - Eros Ramazzotti, Italian sangster
1964 - Andrew Bridgen, Inglis politeecian
1967 - Kevin Macdonald, Scots director
1967 - Julia Roberts, American actress
1974 - Joaquin Phoenix, American actor
1981 - Milan Baros, Czech fitbawer
1982 - Matt Smith, Inglis actor

Daiths

312 - Maxentius, Roman Emperor (b. 278)
1562 - George Gordon, 4t Yerl o Huntly, Scots nobleman (b. 1514)
1627 - Jahangir, Mughal Emperor (b. 1569)
1704 - John Locke, Inglis philosopher (b. 1632)
1740 - Anna o Roushie (b. 1693)
1818 - Abigail Adams, First Lady o the Unitit States (b. 1744)
1840 - John Thomson o Duddiston, Scots meenister an penter (b. 1778)
1921 - William Speirs Bruce, Scots naituralist, polar scientist an oceanografer (b. 1867)
1922 - Alexander Crum Brown, Scots organic chemist (b. 1838)
1998 - Ted Hughes, Inglis poet (b. 1930)
2005 - Richard Smalley, American chemist (b. 1943)
2013 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Pols politeecian (b. 1927)

Halidays

Ochi Day (Greece)
Naitional Day o the umwhile Czechoslovakie

Ootside airtins

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