| 123128 | October 28 | Event | 1971 – Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket from Launch Area 5B at Woomera, South Australia, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket. |
| 123129 | October 28 | Event | 1982 – The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party wins elections, leading to the first Socialist government in Spain after death of Franco. Felipe González becomes Prime Minister-elect. |
| 123130 | October 28 | Event | 1990 – The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic holds the first multiparty legislature election in the country's history. |
| 123131 | October 28 | Event | 1995 – 289 people are killed and 265 injured in Baku Metro fire, the deadliest subway disaster. |
| 123132 | October 28 | Event | 1998 – An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan. |
| 123133 | October 28 | Event | 2005 – Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day. |
| 123134 | October 28 | Event | 2006 – The funeral service takes place for those executed at Bykivnia forest, outside Kiev, Ukraine. Eight hundred seventeen Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s – early 1940s are reburied. |
| 123135 | October 28 | Event | 2006 – A group of activists of Bangladesh Awami League attacked a rival political party meeting in Dhaka with oars and sculls and killed 14. |
| 123136 | October 28 | Event | 2007 – Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first woman elected President of Argentina. |
| 123137 | October 28 | Event | 2009 – The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213. |
| 123138 | October 28 | Event | 2009 – NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program. |
| 123139 | October 28 | Event | 2013 – Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers just outside the Forbidden City in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China. |
| 123140 | October 28 | Event | 2014 – An unmanned Antares rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia. |
| 123141 | October 28 | Birth | 1017 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056) |
| 123142 | October 28 | Birth | 1510 – Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía, Spanish priest and saint, 3rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1572) |
| 123143 | October 28 | Birth | 1585 – Cornelius Jansen, Dutch bishop and theologian (d. 1638) |
| 123144 | October 28 | Birth | 1667 – Maria Anna of Neuburg (d. 1740) |
| 123145 | October 28 | Birth | 1690 – Peter Tordenskjold, Norwegian admiral (d. 1720) |
| 123146 | October 28 | Birth | 1693 – Šimon Brixi, Czech composer (d. 1735) |
| 123147 | October 28 | Birth | 1696 – Maurice de Saxe, French general (d. 1750) |
| 123148 | October 28 | Birth | 1703 – Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1768) |
| 123149 | October 28 | Birth | 1718 – Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian priest, mathematician, astronomer, and explorer (d. 1793) |
| 123150 | October 28 | Birth | 1733 – Franz Ignaz von Beecke, German composer (d. 1803) |
| 123121 | October 28 | Event | 1948 – Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT. |
| 123122 | October 28 | Event | 1949 – An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashes in the Azores killing all people on board, including the French former middleweight world champion boxer Marcel Cerdan and French violinist Ginette Neveu |
| 123123 | October 28 | Event | 1958 – John XXIII is elected Pope. |
| 123124 | October 28 | Event | 1962 – End of Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba. |
| 123125 | October 28 | Event | 1964 – Vietnam War: U.S. officials deny any involvement in bombing North Vietnam. |
| 123126 | October 28 | Event | 1965 – Nostra aetate, the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions" of the Second Vatican Council, is promulgated by Pope Paul VI it absolves the Jews of responsibility for the death of Jesus, reversing Innocent III's 760-ye |
| 123127 | October 28 | Event | 1965 – Construction on the Gateway Arch is completed. |