A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on October 28 throughout history.
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Between 1492 and 1504, the Italian explorer and navigator Christopher Columbus led four transatlantic maritime expeditions in the name of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain to the Caribbean and to...
The University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Spanish: Universidad de Santo Tomás de Aquino) is, from an historical perspective, the first university founded in the Americas.
The Peruvian cities of Lima and Callao are demolished by an earthquake, killing 18,000
Michael Faraday (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English chemist and physicist who contributed to the study of electrochemistry and electromagnetism.
The Statue of Liberty is dedicated by President Grover Cleveland and is celebrated with the first confetti (ticker tape) parade in New York City
The Volstead Act is passed by Congress, establishing a nationwide ban on alcohol, despite President Woodrow Wilson's veto
Miner M. de Bruin discovers the infant fossil skull, "Taung child," in a lime quarry in Taung, South Africa; paleoanthropologist Raymond Dart identifies the fossil as a new hominin species, Australopithecus africanus
"How Green Was My Valley," based on the novel by Richard Llewellyn, directed by John Ford, and starring Walter Pidgeon and Maureen O'Hara, premieres in New York (Best Picture 1942)
"Fiorello!," starring Tom Bosley, closes at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York City after 796 performances and a Pulitzer Prize
The 1900 Summer Olympics (French: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1900), today officially known as the Games of the II Olympiad (Jeux de la IIe olympiade) and also known as Paris 1900, were an international...
Catherine de' Medici was an Italian Florentine noblewoman of the Medici family and Queen of France from 1547 to 1559 by marriage to King Henry II.
Future Governor of New France Louis de Buade de Frontenac (28) secretly marries fellow aristocrat Anne de La Grange-Trianon (16)
Painter Edouard Manet (31) weds Suzanne Leenhoff (34)
Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen (42) and American NFL quarterback Tom Brady (45) announce they have divorced after 13 years of marriage
Antioch on the Orontes (Ancient Greek: Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου, romanized: Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou, pronounced [anti.ó.kʰeː.a]) was a Hellenistic Greek city founded by Seleucus I Nicator in 300 BC.
Eleanor de Montfort, wife of slain baron rebellion leader Simon de Montfort and sister of King Henry III, leaves England for exile in France after negotiating an end to the siege of Dover Castle [1]
The Ming tombs are a collection of mausoleums built by the emperors of the Ming dynasty of China.
Christian I is crowned King of Denmark in the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen, establishing the House of Oldenburg (still rules the Danish throne today)
Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza
Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi defeats the army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia, and gains control of the southern part of Ethiopia
The Battle of Călugăreni took place during the history of early modern Romania on 23 August [O.S.
Japanese Keichō Embassy headed by Hasekura Tsunenaga leaves Sendai aboard the Japanese-built Date Maru galleon for Acapulco
Huguenot bulwark La Rochelle surrenders to Cardinal Richelieu
Harvard University was founded in 1636 in New Towne, a settlement itself founded six years earlier in colonial-era Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the original Thirteen Colonies.
First Protestant church assembly for American Indians established in Massachusetts
The history of the Royal Marines began on 28 October 1664 with the formation of the Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot soon becoming known as the Admiral's Regiment.
St. Mary's Church is consecrated at Fort St. George, Madras, now the oldest British building in India
Ivan VI becomes Tsar of Russia [OS=Oct 17]
Vermont ( ) is a landlocked state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia; British colonists kill 14 to 40 Aboriginal people
Battle of Concepción: rebels led by James Bowie and James Fannin defeat Mexican troops at Mission Concepción, 2 miles (3.2 km) south of what is now San Antonio, Texas
Pioneers suffer a blizzard in the Sierra Nevada; 42 die
The history of rail transport in Spain begins in the 19th century. In 1848, a railway line between Barcelona and Mataró was inaugurated, although a line in Cuba (then a Spanish overseas province)...
R. H. Macy & Co opens its first store on 6th Avenue in New York City with gross receipts of $11.06
Battle at Wauhatchie, Georgia: 865 killed or injured
Battle of Wauhatchie, Tennessee
Maimonides College in Pennsylvania is first Jewish college in the US
Athletics reveal $22,000 profit in their first season in the American Association
An earthquake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan, killing 7,300 people
Mayor of Chicago Carter Harrison III is assassinated at home by a disgruntled supporter, Patrick Eugene Prendergast
St. Louis police try a new investigative method, fingerprints
The Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (French; literally "Mining Union of Upper-Katanga") was a Belgian mining company (with minority British share) that controlled and operated the mining industry in...
Bill Dobbie of Calgary Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game
The Dingbat Family (also The Family Upstairs) is a comic strip by American cartoonist George Herriman that ran from June 20, 1910, to January 4, 1916.
SMS Goeben was the second of two Moltke-class battlecruisers of the Imperial German Navy, launched in 1911 and named after the German Franco-Prussian War veteran General August Karl von Goeben.
Australian government holds a national referendum seeking support for the proposal of compulsory conscription; it is rejected
Governor Lynn Frazier loses to Ragnvald A. Nestos by just over 4,000 votes (1.8%) in the first American gubernatorial recall election held in North Dakota
French-Russian trade agreement is signed
Coolidge Auditorium concert hall opens at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., funded by philanthropist Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge [1]
Indian freedom fighter Lala Lajpat Rai is injured leading silent protest against visiting British commission in Lahore; he dies of his injuries November 17
Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 38.33 pts (13%) to 260.64
Brooklyn Dodgers and Pittsburgh Pirates play the first of only four penalty-free games in NFL history; Dodgers win 21-3 at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn
Dead End is a stage play written by playwright Sidney Kingsley. It premiered on Broadway in October 1935 and ran for two years.
Farewell parade for the International Brigade in Barcelona, Spain
A Royal Air Force Spitfire shoots down a German Heinkel-111 above Scotland
Empress of Britain sunk by a German U-boat two days after it was bombed off the west coast of Ireland with the lost of 49 lives, making it the largest Allied ship sunk in WWII [1]
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, (17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty", was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War,...
German submarine U-220 was a Type XB submarine of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. The U-boat was laid down on 16 June 1941 at the Germaniawerft yard at Kiel as yard number 626,...
Russia and Bulgaria sign a weapons pact
German rocket engineers begin work in USSR
The flag of Israel was officially adopted on 28 October 1948. It is a white banner with three blue (tekhelet) symbols: a pair of horizontal tallit-like stripes above and below a centred Star of...
Georges Bidault becomes the President of the Council of Ministers (premier)
Harry Peter "Bud" Grant Jr. (May 20, 1927 – March 11, 2023) was an American professional football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL) and Canadian Football League (CFL).
Major league owners vote down sale of A's to a Philadelphia syndicate
Egypt and Saudi Arabia sign defense treaty
WMVS TV channel 10 in Milwaukee, WI (PBS) begins broadcasting
The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area.
The Blacks (French: Les Nègres) is a play by the French dramatist Jean Genet. Published in 1958, it was first performed in a production directed by Roger Blin at the Théâtre de Lutèce in Paris,...
NY Giants quarterback Y. A. Tittle passes for 7 touchdowns vs. Washington Redskins in a 49-34 win
Belgian runner Gaston Roelants sets a new world record in the one-hour run, covering 20,664 m (12.84 mi)
NBA Cleveland Cavaliers lose to San Diego 110-99 in their first home game
Elmore Smith of Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game, setting an NBA record
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, designed by architect B. V. Doshi, is inaugurated by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
First time two Islanders score a hat trick in the same game: MacMillan and Westfall
Calvin Murphy (Houston) begins NBA free throw streak of 58 games
The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx.
Robert Gordon Orr is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest players of all time.
Dick Howser, the best Yankees manager by win-loss percentage (.636), returns to New York, replacing Billy Martin
Edward M. McIntyre is elected as the first Black mayor of Augusta, Georgia
Spain's socialists win, and communists lose elections
The History of the Sri Lanka national cricket team began with the formation of the Colombo Cricket Club in 1832.
Stanley E. Hubbard's KOB sells the company's Albuquerque, New Mexico, radio stations KOB-AM and KOB-FM; the stations change their call signs to KKOB
Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner, who was seduced by her minister
Paul Gardner Allen (January 21, 1953 – October 15, 2018) was an American businessman, computer programmer, and investor.
Lee Jang Rim predicted that today would be the end of the world, causing believers to sell their belongings and leave their jobs
Cleveland Metroparks lease Brookside Park from Cleveland for 99 years
Apple Records releases The Beatles "Anthology 3" (double CD; triple LP), the last of a three-part series of rare recordings and outtakes by the Beatles; the set covers the years 1968-70; the album tops the Billboard charts in the US and peaks at No. 4 in the UK
NBA announces the hiring of Dee Kantner and Violet Palmer as the first women to officiate in a major league all-male sports league
An Air China (Mainland China) jetliner is hijacked by a disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan
Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case and resigns later that day
Funeral service for the peace of the executed at Bykivnia forest, outside of Kyiv, Ukraine, with reburial of 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in the 1930s and early 1940s
"Bee Movie" premieres in the US and the UK
In the UK, 500,000 mortgage holders are left in negative equity after house prices drop 15% since the previous summer
Ares I was the crew launch vehicle that was being developed by NASA as part of the Constellation program. The name "Ares" refers to the Greek deity Ares, who is identified with the Roman god Mars.
Baghdad is the capital and largest city in Iraq. It is located on the banks of the Tigris in central Iraq. The city has an estimated population of 8 million.
Research indicating the plague dates back to the Bronze Age in skeletons 5,783 years old is published by a University of Copenhagen team in "Cell"
Country of Georgia is hit by a massive cyber attack, affecting 2,000 websites, TV channels, and government departments
15th-century medieval manuscript "The Book of Lismore" returns to Ireland after donated by Chatsworth Settlement to University College Cork
Largest-ever drug bust in Asia made by police in Laos with 55 million methamphetamine tablets and 1.5 tonnes of crystal meth discovered in beer crates [1]
10th Rugby World Cup, Stade de France: South Africa become first to win four World Cups and second to go back-to-back after a gripping 12-11 win over New Zealand; MVP: Springboks flanker Pieter-Steph du Toit
FIFA Ballon d'Or: Spain and Man City midfielder Rodri wins men's award from Real Madrid pair Vinicius Jr and Jude Bellingham; Barcelona's Aitana Bonmati wins back-to-back women's awards
Apple reaches a market value of $4 trillion for the first time, but closed below the benchmark; Microsoft also reaches, and maintains $4 trillion valuation [1]
Bill Gates, American businessman and philanthropist, known for american businessman and philanthropist, was born on 1956-10-28. William Henry Gates III is an American businessman and philanthropist.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is born
Caitlyn Jenner, American media personality and decathlete, known for american media personality and decathlete, was born on 1950-10-28.
John Romero, American video game designer, known for american video game designer, was born on 1968-10-28. Alfonso John Romero is an American video game developer.
Julia Roberts, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1968-10-28. Julia Fiona Roberts is an American actress.
Joaquin Phoenix, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1975-10-28. Joaquin Rafael Phoenix (né Bottom; born October 28, 1974) is an American actor.
Matt Smith, English actor, known for english actor, was born on 1983-10-28. Matthew Robert Smith is an English actor.
Brad Paisley, American musician, known for american country musician, was born on 1973-10-28. Brad Douglas Paisley is an American country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
Lenny Wilkens, American athlete, known for american basketball player and coach, was born on 1937-10-28.
Bernie Ecclestone, British athlete, known for british business magnate, was born on 1931-10-28.
Antioch on the Orontes (Ancient Greek: Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου, romanized: Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou, pronounced [anti.ó.kʰeː.a]) was a Hellenistic Greek city founded by Seleucus I Nicator in 300 BC.
Eleanor de Montfort, wife of slain baron rebellion leader Simon de Montfort and sister of King Henry III, leaves England for exile in France after negotiating an end to the siege of Dover Castle [1]
The Ming tombs are a collection of mausoleums built by the emperors of the Ming dynasty of China.
Christian I is crowned King of Denmark in the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen, establishing the House of Oldenburg (still rules the Danish throne today)
Between 1492 and 1504, the Italian explorer and navigator Christopher Columbus led four transatlantic maritime expeditions in the name of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain to the Caribbean and to...
Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza
Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi defeats the army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia, and gains control of the southern part of Ethiopia
Catherine de' Medici was an Italian Florentine noblewoman of the Medici family and Queen of France from 1547 to 1559 by marriage to King Henry II.
The University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Spanish: Universidad de Santo Tomás de Aquino) is, from an historical perspective, the first university founded in the Americas.
The Battle of Călugăreni took place during the history of early modern Romania on 23 August [O.S.
Japanese Keichō Embassy headed by Hasekura Tsunenaga leaves Sendai aboard the Japanese-built Date Maru galleon for Acapulco
Huguenot bulwark La Rochelle surrenders to Cardinal Richelieu
Harvard University was founded in 1636 in New Towne, a settlement itself founded six years earlier in colonial-era Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the original Thirteen Colonies.
First Protestant church assembly for American Indians established in Massachusetts
Future Governor of New France Louis de Buade de Frontenac (28) secretly marries fellow aristocrat Anne de La Grange-Trianon (16)
The history of the Royal Marines began on 28 October 1664 with the formation of the Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot soon becoming known as the Admiral's Regiment.
St. Mary's Church is consecrated at Fort St. George, Madras, now the oldest British building in India
Ivan VI becomes Tsar of Russia [OS=Oct 17]
The Peruvian cities of Lima and Callao are demolished by an earthquake, killing 18,000
Vermont ( ) is a landlocked state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
Abigail Adams dies
Michael Faraday (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English chemist and physicist who contributed to the study of electrochemistry and electromagnetism.
Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia; British colonists kill 14 to 40 Aboriginal people
Battle of Concepción: rebels led by James Bowie and James Fannin defeat Mexican troops at Mission Concepción, 2 miles (3.2 km) south of what is now San Antonio, Texas
Pioneers suffer a blizzard in the Sierra Nevada; 42 die
The history of rail transport in Spain begins in the 19th century. In 1848, a railway line between Barcelona and Mataró was inaugurated, although a line in Cuba (then a Spanish overseas province)...
R. H. Macy & Co opens its first store on 6th Avenue in New York City with gross receipts of $11.06
Painter Edouard Manet (31) weds Suzanne Leenhoff (34)
Battle at Wauhatchie, Georgia: 865 killed or injured
Battle of Wauhatchie, Tennessee
Maimonides College in Pennsylvania is first Jewish college in the US
Athletics reveal $22,000 profit in their first season in the American Association
The Statue of Liberty is dedicated by President Grover Cleveland and is celebrated with the first confetti (ticker tape) parade in New York City
An earthquake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan, killing 7,300 people
Mayor of Chicago Carter Harrison III is assassinated at home by a disgruntled supporter, Patrick Eugene Prendergast
The 1900 Summer Olympics (French: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1900), today officially known as the Games of the II Olympiad (Jeux de la IIe olympiade) and also known as Paris 1900, were an international...
St. Louis police try a new investigative method, fingerprints
The Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (French; literally "Mining Union of Upper-Katanga") was a Belgian mining company (with minority British share) that controlled and operated the mining industry in...
Bill Dobbie of Calgary Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game
The Dingbat Family (also The Family Upstairs) is a comic strip by American cartoonist George Herriman that ran from June 20, 1910, to January 4, 1916.
SMS Goeben was the second of two Moltke-class battlecruisers of the Imperial German Navy, launched in 1911 and named after the German Franco-Prussian War veteran General August Karl von Goeben.
Australian government holds a national referendum seeking support for the proposal of compulsory conscription; it is rejected
The Volstead Act is passed by Congress, establishing a nationwide ban on alcohol, despite President Woodrow Wilson's veto
Governor Lynn Frazier loses to Ragnvald A. Nestos by just over 4,000 votes (1.8%) in the first American gubernatorial recall election held in North Dakota
Miner M. de Bruin discovers the infant fossil skull, "Taung child," in a lime quarry in Taung, South Africa; paleoanthropologist Raymond Dart identifies the fossil as a new hominin species, Australopithecus africanus
French-Russian trade agreement is signed
Coolidge Auditorium concert hall opens at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., funded by philanthropist Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge [1]
Indian freedom fighter Lala Lajpat Rai is injured leading silent protest against visiting British commission in Lahore; he dies of his injuries November 17
Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 38.33 pts (13%) to 260.64
Bernie Ecclestone, British athlete, known for british business magnate, was born on 1931-10-28.
Brooklyn Dodgers and Pittsburgh Pirates play the first of only four penalty-free games in NFL history; Dodgers win 21-3 at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn
Dead End is a stage play written by playwright Sidney Kingsley. It premiered on Broadway in October 1935 and ran for two years.
Lenny Wilkens, American athlete, known for american basketball player and coach, was born on 1937-10-28.
Farewell parade for the International Brigade in Barcelona, Spain
A Royal Air Force Spitfire shoots down a German Heinkel-111 above Scotland
Empress of Britain sunk by a German U-boat two days after it was bombed off the west coast of Ireland with the lost of 49 lives, making it the largest Allied ship sunk in WWII [1]
"How Green Was My Valley," based on the novel by Richard Llewellyn, directed by John Ford, and starring Walter Pidgeon and Maureen O'Hara, premieres in New York (Best Picture 1942)
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, (17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty", was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War,...
German submarine U-220 was a Type XB submarine of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. The U-boat was laid down on 16 June 1941 at the Germaniawerft yard at Kiel as yard number 626,...
Russia and Bulgaria sign a weapons pact
German rocket engineers begin work in USSR
The flag of Israel was officially adopted on 28 October 1948. It is a white banner with three blue (tekhelet) symbols: a pair of horizontal tallit-like stripes above and below a centred Star of...
Georges Bidault becomes the President of the Council of Ministers (premier)
Caitlyn Jenner, American media personality and decathlete, known for american media personality and decathlete, was born on 1950-10-28.
Harry Peter "Bud" Grant Jr. (May 20, 1927 – March 11, 2023) was an American professional football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL) and Canadian Football League (CFL).
Major league owners vote down sale of A's to a Philadelphia syndicate
Egypt and Saudi Arabia sign defense treaty
Bill Gates, American businessman and philanthropist, known for american businessman and philanthropist, was born on 1956-10-28. William Henry Gates III is an American businessman and philanthropist.
WMVS TV channel 10 in Milwaukee, WI (PBS) begins broadcasting
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is born
The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area.
The Blacks (French: Les Nègres) is a play by the French dramatist Jean Genet. Published in 1958, it was first performed in a production directed by Roger Blin at the Théâtre de Lutèce in Paris,...
"Fiorello!," starring Tom Bosley, closes at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York City after 796 performances and a Pulitzer Prize
NY Giants quarterback Y. A. Tittle passes for 7 touchdowns vs. Washington Redskins in a 49-34 win
Belgian runner Gaston Roelants sets a new world record in the one-hour run, covering 20,664 m (12.84 mi)
John Romero, American video game designer, known for american video game designer, was born on 1968-10-28. Alfonso John Romero is an American video game developer.
Julia Roberts, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1968-10-28. Julia Fiona Roberts is an American actress.
NBA Cleveland Cavaliers lose to San Diego 110-99 in their first home game
Elmore Smith of Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game, setting an NBA record
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, designed by architect B. V. Doshi, is inaugurated by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
Brad Paisley, American musician, known for american country musician, was born on 1973-10-28. Brad Douglas Paisley is an American country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
First time two Islanders score a hat trick in the same game: MacMillan and Westfall
Calvin Murphy (Houston) begins NBA free throw streak of 58 games
Joaquin Phoenix, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1975-10-28. Joaquin Rafael Phoenix (né Bottom; born October 28, 1974) is an American actor.
The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx.
Robert Gordon Orr is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest players of all time.
Dick Howser, the best Yankees manager by win-loss percentage (.636), returns to New York, replacing Billy Martin
Edward M. McIntyre is elected as the first Black mayor of Augusta, Georgia
Spain's socialists win, and communists lose elections
Matt Smith, English actor, known for english actor, was born on 1983-10-28. Matthew Robert Smith is an English actor.
The History of the Sri Lanka national cricket team began with the formation of the Colombo Cricket Club in 1832.
Stanley E. Hubbard's KOB sells the company's Albuquerque, New Mexico, radio stations KOB-AM and KOB-FM; the stations change their call signs to KKOB
Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner, who was seduced by her minister
Paul Gardner Allen (January 21, 1953 – October 15, 2018) was an American businessman, computer programmer, and investor.
Lee Jang Rim predicted that today would be the end of the world, causing believers to sell their belongings and leave their jobs
Cleveland Metroparks lease Brookside Park from Cleveland for 99 years
Apple Records releases The Beatles "Anthology 3" (double CD; triple LP), the last of a three-part series of rare recordings and outtakes by the Beatles; the set covers the years 1968-70; the album tops the Billboard charts in the US and peaks at No. 4 in the UK
NBA announces the hiring of Dee Kantner and Violet Palmer as the first women to officiate in a major league all-male sports league
An Air China (Mainland China) jetliner is hijacked by a disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan
Tommy Flowers, British engineer, known for english engineer, died on 1998-10-28. Thomas Harold Flowers (22 December 1905 – 28 October 1998) was an English engineer with the British General Post…
Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case and resigns later that day
Funeral service for the peace of the executed at Bykivnia forest, outside of Kyiv, Ukraine, with reburial of 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in the 1930s and early 1940s
"Bee Movie" premieres in the US and the UK
In the UK, 500,000 mortgage holders are left in negative equity after house prices drop 15% since the previous summer
Ares I was the crew launch vehicle that was being developed by NASA as part of the Constellation program. The name "Ares" refers to the Greek deity Ares, who is identified with the Roman god Mars.
Baghdad is the capital and largest city in Iraq. It is located on the banks of the Tigris in central Iraq. The city has an estimated population of 8 million.
Research indicating the plague dates back to the Bronze Age in skeletons 5,783 years old is published by a University of Copenhagen team in "Cell"
Country of Georgia is hit by a massive cyber attack, affecting 2,000 websites, TV channels, and government departments
15th-century medieval manuscript "The Book of Lismore" returns to Ireland after donated by Chatsworth Settlement to University College Cork
Largest-ever drug bust in Asia made by police in Laos with 55 million methamphetamine tablets and 1.5 tonnes of crystal meth discovered in beer crates [1]
Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen (42) and American NFL quarterback Tom Brady (45) announce they have divorced after 13 years of marriage
10th Rugby World Cup, Stade de France: South Africa become first to win four World Cups and second to go back-to-back after a gripping 12-11 win over New Zealand; MVP: Springboks flanker Pieter-Steph du Toit
FIFA Ballon d'Or: Spain and Man City midfielder Rodri wins men's award from Real Madrid pair Vinicius Jr and Jude Bellingham; Barcelona's Aitana Bonmati wins back-to-back women's awards
Apple reaches a market value of $4 trillion for the first time, but closed below the benchmark; Microsoft also reaches, and maintains $4 trillion valuation [1]