Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: October 28
October 28, 2025 is the 301st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 64 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Tuesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Scorpio is your zodiac sign. Opal is your modern birthstone. Jasper is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: October 28
- 306 –Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
- 1516 –Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza.
- 1835 –The United Tribes of New Zealand is established with the signature of the Declaration of Independence.
- 1848 –The first railroad in Spain – between Barcelona and Mataró – is opened.
- 1886 –In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
- 1915 –Richard Strauss conducts the first performance of his tone poem Eine Alpensinfonie in Berlin.
- 1918 –A new Polish government in Western Galicia is established.
- 1995 –289 people are killed and 265 injured in Baku Metro fire, the deadliest subway disaster.
- 2005 –Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.
- 2006 –The funeral service takes place for those executed at Bykivnia forest, outside Kiev, Ukraine. 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s – early 1940s are reburied.
Who were born on October 28?
- 1846 –Georges Auguste Escoffier, French chef (d. 1935)
- 1914 –Glenn Robert Davis, American politician (d. 1988)
- 1929 –Joan Plowright, British actress
- 1929 –John Hollander, American poet
- 1939 –Jane Alexander, American actress
- 1953 –Pierre Boivin, Canadian businessman and hockey executive
- 1960 –Landon Curt Noll, American computer scientist
- 1967 –John Romero, American video game designer
- 1974 –Vicente Moreno, Spanish footballer
- 1988 –Devon Murray, Irish singer and actor
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