WHAT HAPPENED ON 28. OCTOBER
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Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket. (28. October 1971)

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party wins elections, leading to the first Socialist government in Spain after death of Franco. Felipe Gonzalez becomes Prime Minister-elect. (28. October 1982)

The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic holds the first multiparty legislature election in the country's history. (28. October 1990)

289 people are killed and 265 injured in Baku Metro fire, the deadliest subway disaster. (28. October 1995)

An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan. (28. October 1998)

Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day. (28. October 2005)

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. (28. October 2006)

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. (28. October 2006)

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first woman elected President of Argentina. (28. October 2007)

The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213. (28. October 2009)

NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program. (28. October 2009)

5 people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers just outside the Forbidden City in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China. (28. October 2013)

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