Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 28

This is a list of selected October 28 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

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  Statue of Constantine the Great
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  Tutankhamun's mask
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  Statue of Liberty
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  Statue of Liberty
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  Battle of the Milvian Bridge
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  Forbidden City in Beijing
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  Gateway Arch
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  Ladislaus the Posthumous

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Feast day of Simon the Zealot	unreferenced section
Ohi Day in Greece (1940)	refimprove
1420 – Beijing was officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty in the same year that the Forbidden City, the seat of government, was completed.	unreferenced section
1835 – A confederation of Māori chiefs known as the United Tribes of New Zealand signed the Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand.	contradictory between United Tribes and Declaration articles
1893 – In Saint Petersburg, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky led the first performance of his Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Pathétique, nine days before his death.	refimprove section
1915 – Richard Strauss conducted the first performance of his tone poem An Alpine Symphony in Berlin.	refimprove section
1922 – The fascist Blackshirts marched on Rome to take over the Italian government.	lots of CN tags especially in one section
1965 – Nostra aetate, the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions" of the Second Vatican Council, was promulgated by Pope Paul VI, absolving the Jews of the killing of Jesus, and calling for increased relations with all non-Christian religions.	needs more footnotes
Francis Bacon |b|1909	refimprove section
John Hewson |b|1946	tagged for tone issues

Eligible

• 312 – Civil wars of the Tetrarchy: Constantine the Great defeated Maxentius at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in Rome.
• 1453 – Ladislaus the Posthumous was crowned King of Bohemia, although George of Poděbrady remained in control of the government.
• 1664 – The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, the forerunner to the Royal Marines, was established at the grounds of the Honourable Artillery Company in London.
• 1707 – The Hōei earthquake ruptured all segments of the Nankai megathrust simultaneously – the only earthquake known to have done this.
• 1886 – In New York Harbor, U.S. president Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty, a gift from France commemorating the Declaration of Independence; New York City office workers responded by spontaneously holding the first the ticker tape parade.
• 1918 – The Czechoslovak provisional government declared the country's independence from Austria-Hungary, forming the First Czechoslovak Republic in Prague.
• 1919 – The U.S. Congress passed the Volstead Act over president Woodrow Wilson's veto, reinforcing Prohibition in the United States.
• 1925 – The funerary mask of Tutankhamun , possibly originally made for Queen Neferneferuaten, was uncovered for the first time in approximately 3,250 years.
• 1940 – World War II: Italy invaded Greece after Greek prime minister Ioannis Metaxas rejected Benito Mussolini's ultimatum demanding the cession of Greek territory.
• 1965 – In St. Louis, Missouri, U.S., the 630-foot (190 m)-tall steel catenary Gateway Arch was completed.
• 1995 – A fire broke out on a Baku Metro train in Azerbaijan's capital, killing 289 people and injuring 270 others in the world's deadliest subway disaster.
• 2007 – In the Argentine general election, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner became the first woman to be elected president of Argentina.
• Born/died this day: | Ibas of Edessa |d|457| Margaret I of Denmark |d|1412| Marie of the Incarnation |b|1599| Peter Tordenskjold |b|1691| Johann Karl August Musäus |d|1787| Charlotte Turner Smith |d|1806| Bill Gates |b|1955| Carlos Guastavino |d|2000| Red Auerbach |d|2006

Notes

• Prohibition in the United States appears on January 17, so Volstead Act should not appear in the same year
• KV62 appears on November 26, so Tutankhamun's mask should not appear in the same year

October 28: Feast day of Saint Jude the Apostle (Western Christianity)

Prospero satellite (flight spare)

• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: As George Washington's Continental Army retreated northward from New York City, the British Army captured the village of White Plains.
• 1891 – The Mino–Owari earthquake, the strongest known inland earthquake in Japan's history, caused widespread damage and 7,273 deaths.
• 1928 – Indonesian composer Wage Rudolf Supratman introduced "Indonesia Raya", now the country's national anthem.
• 1971 – Prospero (flight spare pictured), the first British satellite launched on a British rocket, lifted off from Launch Area 5B at Woomera, South Australia.
• 2013 – The first terrorist attack in Beijing's recent history took place when members of the Turkistan Islamic Party drove a vehicle into a crowd, killing five people and injuring thirty-eight others.

• Robert Liston (b. 1794)
• Max Henry Ferrars (b. 1846)
• Rosalie Slaughter Morton (b. 1876)

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