October 28th (2006) was a Saturday. It's the 301st day of the year (302nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 64 days left to the end of the year.
Historical Events for 28th October, 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.
» A group of ferocious activists of Bangladesh Awami League attacked one of their rival political party meeting in Dhaka with oars and sculls and killed their 14 activists.
October 28th Famous Deaths for 2006
» Red Auerbach, American basketball player and coach (b. 1917)
» Job of Pochayiv (repose) (Eastern Orthodox Church)
» Jude the Apostle (Western Christianity)
» Lord of Miracles (Lima)
» Simon the Zealot (Western Christianity)
» October 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
» Remembrance days in Slovakia known as Day of the Establishment of an Independent Czecho-Slovak State, celebrates the independence of Czechoslovakia from Austria-Hungary in 1918. (Czech Republic and Slovakia)
» International Animation Day (ASIFA)
» Ohi Day named Ochi Day (Greece, Cyprus and the Greeks e.g Greek communities)
» 1891 Mino-Owari earthquake called Prefectural Earthquake Disaster Prevention Day (Gifu Prefecture)