28 of October

See also: Category: Holidays October 28

International

• International Animation Day ^[2]

National

•   Greece - Okha Day .
•   Ukraine - Day of the liberation of Ukraine from the Nazi invaders .
•   Czechoslovakia - Independence Day of the Czechoslovak Republic ^{[3] [4] [ specify ]} .

  Religious

•   Orthodoxy ^{[5] [6] [7]} :

- Dimitrievsky parent Saturday ( rolling date in 2017);

- memory of the martyrs of Sarvil and Vevey ( II century );

- memory of the Monk Martyr Lucian, presbyter of Antioch ( 312 year );

- memory of St. Savin, Bishop of Katan ( 760 );

- memory of St. Euthymius the New, of Solunsky ( 889 );

- memory of the holy martyr Lucian of the Caves, in the Far Caves ( 1243 );

- memory of St. John, Bishop of Suzdal ( 1373 );

- memory of the holy martyr Simeon Konyukhov, presbyter ( 1918 );

- memory of the holy martyr Dimitry Kasatkin, presbyter ( 1942 );

- memory of St. Athanasius (Sakharov) confessor, Bishop of Kovrovsky ( 1962 );

- Celebration of the Icon of the Mother of God "The Breeder of Bread " ( XIX century )

Name Day

• Orthodox: Vevey, Denis, Efim, Ivan, Lukyan, Savin, Sarvil ^[8]

See also: Category: October 28 events

Until the 19th century

• 312 - battle of Maxentius with Constantine , known as the Battle of the Mulvian Bridge . The victory of Constantine, who became the single emperor of Rome. Maxentius died the next day.
• 1237 - the first mention of Berlin , the birthday of the city.
• 1492 - Columbus landed in Cuba.
• 1571 - Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible married Marfa Sobakina , who died a fortnight later.
• 1644 - The Civil War in Scotland : The Battle of Thebes .
• 1654 - in Vologda, in order to get rid of the pestilence , the Vsegrad Cathedral of the Savior the All-Merciful was built in one day ^[9] .
• 1707 - an earthquake in Japan claimed the lives of about 5 thousand people.

XIX century

• 1886 - The official opening of the Statue of Liberty in New York took place .
• 1892 - Emil Reno presented " luminous pantomimes " in the Grevin Museum ; the International Animation Day was established for the anniversary of this event.

XX century

• 1908 - the first short-length feature film “ Ponizovaya Volnitsa ” was released on the movie screens.
• 1914
  • The company " Kodak " announces the start of work on the creation of color photography technology.
  • The German cruiser Emden sank the Russian cruiser Pearl and the French destroyer Musket in Penang harbor.
• 1918 - Declaration of independence of Czechoslovakia (from Austria-Hungary ).
• 1924 - France recognized de jure the Soviet government.
• 1940 - Ohi Day in Greece : date of entry of Greece into World War II .
• 1942 - Nazis destroyed the ghetto in Pinsk .
• 1943 - World War II: the raid on Choiseul began .
• 1944 - the day of the liberation of Ukraine from the Nazi invaders .
• 1955 - Finland joined the Northern Council .
• 1962 - Caribbean crisis : First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Khrushchev announces the dismantling of Soviet missiles in Cuba .
• 1965 - the largest monument in the world, the 192-meter steel arch "Gate to the West" , opens in the USA .
• 1971 - launch of the English satellite ( Prospero X-3 ) of the first launch vehicle of its own production ( Black Arrow ) into orbit.
• 1972 - the passenger airliner “ Airbus A300 ” leaves for the first flight.
• 1974 - the launch vehicle carrying the Luna-23 automatic station starts successfully.
• 1981 - The American metal band Metallica was founded.
• 1995 - the fire in the Baku metro - the largest accident in the Baku metro, as well as the largest incident in the history of all subways in the world.

21st Century

• 2005 - the first Iranian artificial Earth satellite “ Sina-1 ” was launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome .
• 2007 - the first Wiki-conference of Russian Wikipedia ended in St. Petersburg
• 2009 - acts of terrorism in Kabul ( Afghanistan ) and in Peshawar ( Pakistan ).
• 2011 - after six years of reconstruction, the Bolshoi Theater was opened in Moscow ^[10]

See also: Category: Born on October 28

Until the 19th century

• 1469 - Erasmus of Rotterdam (d. 1536 ), Dutch philosopher, humanist, the greatest scientist of the Northern Renaissance.
• 1759 - Andrei Voronikhin (d. 1814 ), Russian architect and painter.
• 1760 - Alexander Lamet (d. 1829 ), general, participant in the French Revolution , one of the leaders of the felians .
• 1793 - Simonas Daukantas (d. 1864 ), Lithuanian historian and writer-educator.
• 1794 - Robert Liston (d. 1847 ), Scottish surgeon-innovator, inventor.
• 1798 - Juditha Pasta (d. 1865 ), Italian opera singer, possessing a unique voice in volume - from high soprano to contralto, with a range of 2.5 octaves.

XIX century

• 1828 - Nikolai Strakhov (d. 1896 ), Russian philosopher, publicist, literary critic.
• 1846 - Georges Auguste Escoffier (d. 1935 ), French restaurateur, author of cookbooks.
• 1860 - Jigoro Kano (d. 1938 ), Japanese martial artist, creator of judo .
• 1884 - Maria Spiridonova (shot in 1941 ), Russian revolutionary, one of the leaders of the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party .
• 1896 - Mikhail Romanov (d. 1963 ), theater and film actor, theater director, people's artist of the USSR.
• 1897 - Edith Head (d. 1981 ), American costume designer, winner of eight Oscars .

XX century

• 1903 - Evelyn Waugh (d. 1966 ), English writer.
• 1906 - Anel Sudakevich (d. 2002 ), Soviet actress, costume designer.
• 1909 - Francis Bacon (d. 1992 ), English expressionist painter .
• 1912
  • Richard Doll (d. 2005 ), British physiologist and epidemiologist.
  • Arseny Vorozheykin (d. 2001 ), Soviet fighter pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, major general of aviation.
• 1913 - Yefim Uchitel (d. 1988 ) is a Soviet cameraman and documentary film director.
• 1914 - Jonas Salk (d. 1995 ), American virologist.
• 1924
  • Ovid Gorchakov (d. 2000 ), Soviet intelligence officer, writer and screenwriter.
  • Yuri Lopukhin (d. 2016 ), Soviet and Russian surgeon, professor, academician of RAMS .
• 1927 - Rosa Makagonova (d. 1995 ), film actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1930
  • Svetlana Annapolskaya (d. 2008 ), Soviet and Russian director of theater, cinema and television.
  • Bernie Ecclestone , English businessman, president of Formula One Management and Formula 1 Administration.
• 1936 - Roman Viktyuk , theater director, people's artist of Russia.
• 1941 - Anatoly Trushkin , Soviet and Russian satirist and comedian, screenwriter.
• 1944 - Kolyush (real name Michel Gerard Joseph Kolyucci ; d. 1986 ), French comedian and screenwriter.
• 1945 - Gadzhi Gadzhiev , Russian football coach.
• 1946 - Sergey Sazontiev (d. 2011 ), Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, people's artist of Russia.
• 1951 - Marvin Himeyer (d. 2004 ), a participant in the conflict in Granby , Colorado , which ended with the destruction of some of the city’s buildings and his suicide.
• 1955 - Bill Gates , American entrepreneur, founder of Microsoft Corporation.
• 1956 - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , sixth president of the Islamic Republic of Iran (2005-2013).
• 1957 - Roza Rymbaeva , Soviet and Kazakhstani pop singer, film actress.
• 1959 - Oleg Dobrodeev , Russian journalist and media manager, since 2004 General Director of VGTRK .
• 1963
  • Eros Ramazzotti , Italian singer and composer.
  • Vika Tsyganova , Soviet and Russian singer, actress, composer.
• 1967 - Julia Roberts , American film actress, winner of the Oscar .
• 1968 - Fedor Dvinyatin , member of the club of experts “What? Where? When? ” , The owner of four Crystal Owls .
• 1974 - Joaquin Phoenix , American film actor, musician and music video maker.
• 1974 - Dianara Torres , Puerto Rican actress, model, Miss Universe (1993).
• 1982 - Matt Smith , an English actor.

See also: Category: Dead on October 28

Until the 19th century

• 1704 - John Locke (b. 1632 ), British educator and philosopher.
• 1727 - Prince Boris Ivanovich Kurakin (b. 1676 ), Russian statesman, diplomat, first ambassador of Russia abroad.
• 1740 - Anna Ioannovna (b. 1693 ), Russian Empress (1730-1740).
• 1763 - Heinrich von Bruhl (b. 1700 ), first Minister of Elector of Saxony and King of Poland Augustus III .
• 1787 - Johann Carl Augustus Museum (b. 1735 ), German writer, literary critic, philologist and teacher.

XIX century

• 1806 - Charlotte Smith ( born Charlotte Turner Smith ; born 1749 ), an English writer.
• 1861 - Ivan Nikitin (b. 1824 ), Russian poet.
• 1872 - Domna Tomskaya , Russian holy fool .
• 1883
  • Evfimiy Putyatin (b. 1803 ), Russian admiral, statesman and diplomat.
  • Pavel Alandsky (b. 1844 ), Russian historian, specialist in the history of ancient Greece and Rome .
• 1889 - Gustav Rumelin (b. 1815 ), German politician, educator, statistician.
• 1899 - Otmar Mergentaler (b. 1854 ), American inventor, creator of the linotype .

XX century

• 1912 - Matvey Stepanovich Lalaev (born 1828 ), artillery general of the Russian Imperial Army , military teacher, historian and publicist ^[11] .
• 1921 - Alexander Krivoshein (b. 1857 ), Russian statesman, closest employee of Peter Stolypin on the implementation of agrarian reform.
• 1923 - Fedor Korsh (b. 1852 ), Russian entrepreneur, playwright, translator.
• 1941 - Jacob Usachev (b. 1873 ), Russian Soviet physicist, founder of the science of metal cutting.
• 1941 - shot:
  • Philip Goloshchekin (b. 1876 ), Bolshevik, Soviet leader, one of the organizers of the execution of the royal family .
  • Yakov Smushkevich (b. 1902 ), Soviet military leader, twice Hero of the Soviet Union.
• 1949
  • Ginette Neveu (born 1919 ), French violinist.
  • Marcel Serdan (born 1916 ), a French boxer, champion of Europe and the world, beloved Edith Piaf, died.
• 1952 - Viktor Yashin (b. 1922 ), Soviet military pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, committed suicide.
• 1959 - Camilo Cienfuegos (b. 1932 ), a revolutionary, one of the key figures of the Cuban revolution , died.
• 1962 - Vera Pashennaya (b. 1887 ), actress of the Maly Theater and Cinema, People's Artist of the USSR.
• 1969 - Korney Chukovsky (b. 1882 ), Russian Soviet children's writer, literary critic, translator.
• 1973 - Taha Hussein (b. 1889 ), Egyptian writer, literary critic and historian.
• 1977 - Alexey Vysotsky (b. 1919 ), Soviet writer, front-line journalist, documentary filmmaker.
• 1984 - Alexander Tselikov (b. 1904 ), metallurgical scientist, twice Hero of Socialist Labor.
• 1987 - Andre Masson (b. 1896 ), French painter and graphic artist.
• 1989 - Julia Solntseva (b. 1901 ), actress and director, People's Artist of the USSR, wife of film director A.P. Dovzhenko .
• 1993 - Yuri Lotman (b. 1922 ), Soviet literary critic, culturologist and semiotics.
• 1997 - Elizaveta Nikishikhina (b. 1941 ), theater and film actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR.

21st Century

• 2002 - Leonid Davidenko (b. 1941 ), Belarusian Soviet sculptor, painter, graphic artist, teacher.
• 2005 - Luba Tadic (b. 1929 ), Yugoslav theater and film actor.

Efim the Pious.

• “ Yefimii coldly closes the roots of grasses and trees with the earth, harbors every insect in the dead grass, brings back a dream ” ^[12] .
• On this day, continued to crush and ruffle flax.