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| October 28th, 2005 (October 28 2005) | Event | Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney s chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day. | |
| October 28th, 2005 (October 28 2005) | Death | Eugene K. Bird, German prison director (born in 1926) | |
| October 28th, 2005 (October 28 2005) | Death | Bob Broeg, American sports writer (born in 1918) | |
| October 28th, 2005 (October 28 2005) | Death | Raymond Hains, French artist (born in 1926) | |
| October 28th, 2005 (October 28 2005) | Death | Tony Jackson, American basketball player (born in 1942) | |
| October 28th, 2005 (October 28 2005) | Death | Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean singer and musician (born in 1922) | |
| October 28th, 2005 (October 28 2005) | Death | Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1943) | |
| October 28th, 2005 (October 28 2005) | Death | Ljuba Tadic, Serbian actor (born in 1929) | |
| October 28th, 1985 (October 28 1985) | Event | Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. | |
| October 28th, 1985 (October 28 1985) | Event | Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and makes peace overtures to the United States; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government. | |
| October 28th, 1985 (October 28 1985) | Birth | Richard Smith, American entrepreneur | |
| October 28th, 1975 (October 28 1975) | Death | Georges Carpentier, French boxer (born in 1894) | |
| October 28th, 1975 (October 28 1975) | Death | Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger (born in 1932) | |
| October 28th, 1965 (October 28 1965) | Event | 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 the alleged killing of Jesus, reversing Innocent III s declaration from 760 years ago. In short, Pope Paul VI announces that the ecumenical council has decided that Jews are not collectively responsible for the killing of Christ. | |
| October 28th, 1965 (October 28 1965) | Birth | Jami Gertz, American actress | |
| October 28th, 1965 (October 28 1965) | Birth | Luigi Miraglia, Italian Latinist | |
| October 28th, 1965 (October 28 1965) | Death | Earl Bostic, American saxophonist (born in 1913) | |
| October 28th, 1955 (October 28 1955) | Birth | Bill Gates, American software executive | Bill Gates Quotes |
| October 28th, 1945 (October 28 1945) | Birth | Elton Dean, English musician (Soft Machine) (died in 2006) | |
| October 28th, 1945 (October 28 1945) | Birth | Wayne Fontana, British singer (The Mindbenders) | |
| October 28th, 1935 (October 28 1935) | Birth | Alan Clarke, British film director | |
| October 28th, 1925 (October 28 1925) | Birth | Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (died in 2006) | |
| October 28th, 1885 (October 28 1885) | Birth | Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (died in 1922) | |
| October 28th, 1875 (October 28 1875) | Birth | Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, American geographer and editor (died in 1966) | |
| October 28th, 1845 (October 28 1845) | Birth | Zygmunt Florenty Wroblewski, Polish physicist (died in 1888) | |
| October 28th, 1775 (October 28 1775) | Event | American Revolutionary War A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston. | |
| October 28th, 1755 (October 28 1755) | Death | Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (born in 1689) | |
| October 28th, 1585 (October 28 1585) | Birth | Cornelius Jansen, Dutch bishop (died in 1638) | |
| October 28th, 1485 (October 28 1485) | Death | Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch humanist (born in 1443) | |
| October 28th, 1225 (October 28 1225) | Death | Jien, Japanese poet and historian (born in 1155) | |
