Historical Events - October 28

 1420 : Beijing had officially named the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

1490 : Christopher Columbus arrived in Cuba after his first voyage.

1636 : Establishment of Harvard University in the United States.

1886 : France presented the Statue of Liberty to America as a token of friendship.

1904 : Political relations were established between Panama and Uruguay.

1913 : Jain Shwetambar Terapanthi Sabha was established.

1922 : Fascists in Italy, led by Benito Mussolini, overthrow the government in Rome.

1940 : In World War II, Italy invaded Greece.

1962 : Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, announced that his country will withdraw nuclear missiles deployed in Sadi, Cuba, targeted by the US.

1969 : Tarapur Atomic Power Station started.

 

Famous Birthdays   – October 28  

1867: Margaret Nobel Sister Nivedita, a disciple of Swami Vivekananda.

1886: O.G. S. Crawford, British archaeologist 

1930: Anjaan, a famous lyricist in the Hindi cinema.

1955: Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft.

1955: Indra Nooyi, an American corporate officer of Indian descent.

1956: Mohammad Ahmadinejad, the 6th President of Iran.

1958: Ashok Chavan, Indian politician.

1963: Urjit Patel, an Indian economist, who served as the 24th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.

1967: Julia Roberts, American actress.

1969: Leena Nair, the first female, first Asian, youngest ever Chief Human Resource Officer of Unilever and member of the Unilever Leadership Executive.

1974: Joaquin Rafael Phoenix, an American actor, environmentalist, animal rights activist, and producer.

1979: Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube, and the first person to upload a video on youtube.

 

Death anniversaries   – October 28

1627: Jahangir, 4th Mughal Emperor.

1900: Max Müller, a German-born philologist and Orientalist.

1944: Helen White, the first American woman to receive a doctorate.

1998: Thomas Harold Flowers, an English engineer with the British General Post Office.

1999: Rafael Alberti Merello, a Spanish poet.

2002: Erling Persson, founder of H&M.

2010: Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenland’s first prime minister.

2013: Rajendra Yadav, Indian writer.