Ten notable events that occurred on October 28:
- Olympic decathlon champion and Can't Stop the Music star Bruce Jenner born (1949)
- The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, the first university in the New World, is established in the Dominican Republic (1538)
- English philosopher John Locke dies (1704)
- Abigail Adams dies (1818)
- Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government (1922)
- In the Battle of White Plains, British Army forces attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans (1776)
- Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond, Virginia (1864)
- Jonas Salk, the American medical scientist who created the polio vaccine, born (1914)
- Empress Agnes, Regent of the Holy Roman Empire, brings about the election of Bishop Cadalus, the antipope Honorius II (1061)
- Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame (1970)
