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>> Events, deaths, births, of 28 OCT [For Oct 28 Julian go to Gregorian date: 1582~1699: Nov 07 1700s: Nov 08 1800s: Nov 09 1900~2099: Nov 10] |
On a 28 October:
2002 It is announced that, subject to shareholder approval, CardioTech International (CTE) will acquire Gish Biomedical (GISH) for 1.3422 shares of CardioTech per GISH share, which will require CardioTech to issue 4.82 million new shares. On the NASDAQ, 160'000 of the 3.6 million GISH shares are traded, surging from their previous close of $0.55 to an intraday high of $2.00 and close at $1.30. They had traded as low as $0.11 as recently as 13 August 2002, and had peaked at $5.69 on 96 March 2000. CTE shares are traded, falling from their previous close of $1.59 to close at $1.29 (at which price it would make the GISH shares worth $1.73) GISH makes heart and blood vessel surgery devices. CTE makes polyurethane synthetic blood vessels. 2001 Euskadi Ta Askatasuna says: «ETA bere indar guztiz ahaleginduko da beste hogei urtez luzatuko den gatazkarik izan ez dadin» 1999 Russian air campaign over Chechnya intensifies (CNN) -- UN sending humanitarian mission to Chechnya region (CNN)
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1970 US/USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts 1966 Belgium's Gaston Roelants runs 20.5 km in 1 hour 1965 Pope Paul VI proclaims that Jews are not collectively guilty for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ [we have met the guilty, and they are us, because of our sins]. 1965 Viet Cong commandos damage and destroy a number of allied aircraft in two separate raids on US air bases, including Chu Lai, on the coast of the South China Sea in Quang Tin Province, I Corps. 1964 US T-28 airplanes flown by Thai pilots bomb and strafe North Vietnamese villages in the Mugia Pass area. North Vietnam charges that US personnel participated in the raids, but US officials deny that any Americans were involved.
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1958 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, patriarch of Venice,
is elected Pope, taking the name John XXIII 1949 US missionary martyr Jim Elliot, 22, writes in his journal: He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. 1948 Flag of Israel is adopted 1946 German rocket engineers begin work in USSR
1904 St Louis police try a new investigation method--fingerprints 1886 Statue of Liberty dedicated by Pres Grover Cleveland, it is celebrated by the 1st confetti (ticker tape) parade in NYC 1864 Battle of Boydton Plank Road (Burgess' Mill), Virginia concludes 1863 Engagement at Wauhatchie, Tennessee 1793 Eli Whitney applies for a patent on the cotton gin 1790 New York gives up claims to Vermont for $30'000 1776 Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to NJ 1646 At Nonantum, Mass., colonial missionary John Eliot ("Apostle to the New England Indians"), 42, conducted the first Protestant worship service for the Indians of North America. He also delivered the first sermon preached to the Indians in their native tongue. 1492 Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba 0312 Roman emperor Constantine, 32, defeated the army of Maxentius, a contender to the throne, at Milvian Bridge, after trusting in a vision he had seen of the cross, inscribed with the words, "In hoc signo vinces. Constantine was converted soon after and became the first Roman emperor to embrace the Christian faith. -- Constantin bat son rival Maxence au Pont Milvius. Une légende postérieure assure qu'il aurait alors vu une Croix dans le ciel, avec ces mots: "Tu vaincras par ce signe"! Le futur empereur romain aurait alors choisi de défendre le christianisme. |
Deaths
which occurred a 28 October: 2002 Robin Rogers, 50, Cheryl McGaffic, 44, Barbara Monroe, 45, and Robert Stewart Flores Jr., 41, who shoots himself after shooting the three clinical nursing assistant professors. at the University of Arizona's School of Nursing in Tucson. Gulf War veteran Flores, an obnoxious nursing student (in his final semester to become a registered nurse) who had threatened to blow up the building, armed with 5 handguns and at least 200 rounds of ammunition, kills Rogers in her 2nd-floor office at 08:35, then goes to the 4th floor and enters classroom 467 at 08:40 (15:40 UT) during an Nursing-475 (Critical Patien Care) exam, saying "Make your peace with God." He tells McGaffic I'm going to give you a lesson in spirituality," shoots her twice in the chest then once in the head (she was an ethics professor who studied the relationship between health and spirituality in seriously ill patients). Then Flores goes to Monroe, who was hiding behind a desk, and asks Are you ready to meet your maker? She says 'Yes,' and he shoots her three times. A university police report of 24 April 2001 notes that instructor Melissa M. Goldsmith said that Robert S. Flores Jr. said that he was having problems with a paper but also had a lot of problems other than school: "He was depressed and thought about 'ending it all.' and he might put something under the college. 2002 Laurence Foley, 62 [27 Oct 2002 photo >], an employee of the US Agency for International Development mission in Jordan, which handles foreign aid and humanitarian programs, is about to get into his Mercedes in the garage of his home in Amman, at 07:30, when he is shot in the head and chest by at least seven 7mm-caliber bullet from a silencer-equipped pistol fired by Salem Saad bin Suweid, a Libyan, who is with his Jordanian accomplice Yasser Fatih Ibrahim. The two would be arrested by Jordanian police on 03 December 2002, confess to the crime and to being members of al-Qaida, and found in possession of plans, weapons, and money, which they had received from Ahmed al-Kalaylah (aka Abu Mussad al-Zarqawi), a fugitive Jordanian al-Qaida commander, for the purpose of carrying out more terrorist attacks in Jordan.. 2001 Two Israelis waiting at a bus stop in Hadera, Israel, by automatic gun fire from two Islamic Jihad militants, who are then shot dead by Israeli plainclothes 12 other persons are wounded, 4 of them severely. 2001 An Israeli soldier in a drive-by shooting in Israel near the border with the West Bank. 2001 At least 10 Afghani civilians by US bombs smashing three mud houses in the Qali Hotair neighborhood on the northern edge of Kabul. 2001 (Sunday) Mohammad Salim, Muslim police officer guarding the gate of St. Dominic's Catholic Church in Behawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan, 100 km south of Multan, Father Emmanuel, protestant minister about to conclude a service, six other men, four children under 12, and four women, by 2 minutes of indiscriminate gunfire from four masked attackers at about 09:00. Many other are wounded. As usual, the Protestant congregation, not having its own church in the area, is given hospitality by the Catholic church. Christians are among the 3% non-Muslims in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. 2001 Two soldiers and one civilian, as bomb explodes under a seat of a passenger bus passing through Rubber Market in a heavily guarded military subdivision of Quetta, Baluchistan, Pakistan. 25 other persons are wounded. 2001 Unnamed newborn girl Aldridge, early in the morning, in Norfolk, Virginia, immediately after unexpected birth in a hotel bathroom, drowned by mother Kuturah Aldrige [26 May 1983] while her mate and the newborn's father, Anton Johnson, was still sleeping. Kuturah confesses to the crime and would, on 20 February 2003, be convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced on 23 May 2003 (the maximum is 20 years in prison). 2000 Anthony Dwain Lee, 39. shot several times by Los Angeles police officer Tarriel Hopper (both are Black), at about 01:00. Lee was at a costumed Halloween party and had pointed a toy gun at Hopper, who was coming to investigate a noise complaint. 1991 John Korbal, 51, film historian (Marlene Dietrich) 1987 André Masson, 91, French Surrealist painter, sculptor, draftsman, printmaker, illustrator, stage designer, and writer, born on 04 January 1896. MORE ON MASSON AT ART 4 OCTOBER with links to images. 1986 Reiner, mathematician. 1980:: 10 children, as a result of a fire set by Leonard Kidd. 1965 Eisenhart, mathematician 1925 George William Joy, British artist born in 1844. MORE ON JOY AT ART 4 OCTOBER with links to images. 1918 Dini, mathematician 1900 Friedrich Max Müller, translator of The Dhammapada, The Upanishads (selections) 1900 Henry Sidgwick, author. SIDGWICK ONLINE: The Methods of Ethics 1893 Eduard Schleich II, German artist born on 15 February 1853. 1891 Some 7300 in quake at Mino-Owari, Japan.
1806 Charlotte (Turner) Smith, author. CHARLOTTE SMITH ONLINE: Beachy Head: With Other Poems -- Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems -- The Emigrants book 1 + book 2 John Wallis, mathematician 1577 Michele Tosini di Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio, Italian artist born on 08 May 1503. MORE ON TOSINI AT ART 4 OCTOBER with links to images. 1531 fra Lorenzo, Bernardino Parenzano, Italian monk, prophet, and artist born in 1437, who is confused with another artist of the same names, born about 1450 and who died about 1500. more with links to images. 0900 Alfred the Great, English monarch |
Births which
occurred on a 28 October:
1914 Dr Jonas Salk [photo >], NYC, medical researcher, made polio a fear of the past with the Salk polio vaccine; did AIDS research. Following small field trials, one was conducted with 440'000 US children; its positive results were announced on 12 April 1955. In 1970 Salk married the French painter and former mistress of Picasso, Francoise Gilot. In later years, Salk dabbled in painting, poetry, and writing on themes as much philosophical as scientific. He described himself as one of a few highly evolved people who shape and hasten evolution. Salk died on 23 June 1995. His books include Man Unfolding (1972) and The Survival of the Wisest (1973). 1909 Francis Bacon, Irish English Expressionist painter, specialized in portraits. who died on 28 April 1992. MORE ON BACON AT ART 4 OCTOBER with links to biography and images. |
1846 Albert Dubois-Pillet, French artist who died on 18 August 1890. 1846 Auguste Escoffier, king of chefs and chef of kings, who died on 12 February 1935. Né à Villeneuve-Loubet, il est l'auteur du Livre des Menus. 1831 Charles Colcock Jones, author. CHARLES JONES ONLINE: The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States, The Siege of Savannah in December, 1864 1823 William Simpson, British artist who died on 17 August 1899. {1818 28 October Julian: birth of Ivan Turgenev: go to 09 November (Gregorian)} 1817 Henry Harbaugh, author. HARBAUGH ONLINE: The Heavenly Recognition 1813 Johann Georg Meyer (von Bremen), German painter who died on 04 December 1886. link to an image. 1804 Verhulst, mathematician. 1793 Eliphalet Remington, US firearms manufacturer and inventor, who died on 12 August 1861. 1790 Bartholomeus-Johannes van Hove, Dutch artist who died on 08 November 1880. more 1735 Simon Julien, French painter and engraver who died on 30 June 1798, or on 23 or 24 February 1800. more 1703 Deparcieux, mathematician 1619 Guillam Gabron, Belgian artist who died on 92 August 1678. 1603 Simon de Vos, Flemish artist who died on 15 October 1676. MORE ON DE VOS AT ART 4 OCTOBER with links to images. 1585 Cornelius Otto Jansen, French Roman Catholic reform leader, who died on 06 May 1638. 1467 Erasme, philosophe humaniste, à Rotterdam. -- Desiderius ERASMUS ONLINE: All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, Concerning Men, Manners, and Things -- Complete On-Line Works. -- The Praise of Folie = Moriae Encomium -- The Praise of Folly -- The Praise of Folly 1017 Henry III, Holy Roman emperor from 1046 to his 05 October 1056 death. |