October 28: Feast days of Simon the Zealot and Jude the Apostle (Western Christianity)
Prospero satellite
- 1664 – The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, the forerunner to the Royal Marines, was established at the grounds of the Honourable Artillery Company in London.
- 1835 – Māori chiefs signed the Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand and established the United Tribes of New Zealand.
- 1891 – The Nōbi Earthquake, Japan's strongest known inland earthquake, struck the former provinces of Mino and Owari.
- 1919 – The US Congress passed the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, reinforcing Prohibition in the United States.
- 1971 – Prospero, the only British satellite to date launched on a British rocket, lifted off from Launch Area 5B at Woomera, South Australia.
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