6 Aban 1401

Events

• 1420 (606 years ago) Beijing is officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty when the Forbidden City is completed.
• 1492 (534 years ago) Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World, surmising that it is Japan.
• 1776 (250 years ago) American Revolutionary War: British troops under General William Howe attack General George Washington's Continental Army and capture Chatterton Hill in the Battle of White Plains during the New York and New Jersey campaign.
• 1918 (108 years ago) World War I: A new Polish government in western Galicia is established, triggering the Polish–Ukrainian War.
• 1940 (86 years ago) World War II: Greece rejects Italy's ultimatum. Italy invades Greece through Albania a few hours later.
• 1965 (61 years ago) Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate, by which the Roman Catholic Church officially recognizes the legitimacy of non-Christian faiths.
• 2009 (17 years ago) US President Barack Obama signs the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
• 2018 (8 years ago) Jair Bolsonaro is elected president of Brazil with 57 million votes, with Workers' Party candidate Fernando Haddad as the runner-up. It is the first time in 16 years that a Workers' Party candidate is not elected president.

Births

• 1466 (560 years ago) Erasmus, Dutch philosopher (died 1536)
• 1903 (123 years ago) Evelyn Waugh, English journalist, author, and critic (died 1966)
• 1914 (112 years ago) Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (died 1995)
• 1933 (93 years ago) Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (died 1983)
• 1955 (71 years ago) Bill Gates, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Microsoft
• 1956 (70 years ago) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian engineer and politician, 6th President of Iran
• 1967 (59 years ago) Julia Roberts, American actress and producer
• 1974 (52 years ago) Joaquin Phoenix, American actor and producer

Deaths

• 312 (1714 years ago) Maxentius, Roman emperor (born 278)
• 1627 (399 years ago) Jahangir, Mughal Emperor of India (born 1569)
• 1704 (322 years ago) John Locke, English physician and philosopher (born 1632)
• 1740 (286 years ago) Anna of Russia,
• 1818 (208 years ago) Abigail Adams, American writer and second First Lady of the United States (born 1744)
• 1900 (126 years ago) Max Müller, German philologist and orientalist (born 1823)
• 2022 (4 years ago) Jerry Lee Lewis, American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1935)
• 2023 (3 years ago) Matthew Perry, American-Canadian actor (born 1969)

All 414 events, births and deaths of October 28