About the day » Thursday October 28, 2004Calender converter

• Max Diekmann, Faro (P) († 2004)
• Rik Vermeulen, Schoonhoven
• Maria Diekmann, Faro (P) († 2004)

• Anthonia Cornelia Witvliet (57), Gouda
• Albertje Nijmeijer (91)
• Berry Moonen (61), Udenhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• A.H. Nathalia (1976), Abdissenbosch
• Barta Klok (100), Nijkerk
• Anna Josefina Francken (81), Bergen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bonnie Smit (60)
• Camiel Auman (84), Heusden
• Alma Mae Newell McMIchael [WkWk] (88), Stafford, Stafford County, Kansas
• Anton Eibe Hoogervorst (61)

• 1991 » Lucy Bronze, English footballer
• 1992 » Maria Sergejeva, Estonian figure skater
• 1994 » Maro Itoje, English rugby union player
• 1995 » Glen Kamara, Finnish footballer
• 1996 » Jack Eichel, American ice hockey player
• 1996 » Jasmine Jessica Anthony, American actress
• 1996 » Una Raymond-Hoey, Irish cricketer
• 1997 » Georgia Godwin, Australian artistic gymnast
• 1997 » Taylor Fritz, American tennis player
• 1998 » Nolan Gould, American actor

• 2002 » Erling Persson, Swedish businessman, founded H&M (b. 1917)
• 2002 » Margaret Booth, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1898)
• 2004 » Eugene K. Bird, American colonel and author, US Commandant of Spandau Prison (b. 1926)
• 2005 » Bob Broeg, American soldier and journalist (b. 1918)
• 2005 » Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean-Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1922)
• 2005 » Ljuba Tadić, Serbian actor and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2005 » Raymond Hains, French photographer (b. 1926)
• 2005 » Richard Smalley, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
• 2005 » Tony Jackson, American basketball player (b. 1942)
• 2006 » Red Auerbach, American basketball player and coach (b. 1917)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
• April 25 » The March for Women's Lives brings between 500,000 and 800,000 protesters, mostly pro-choice, to Washington D.C. to protest the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, and other restrictions on abortion.
• May 28 » The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
• July 4 » Greece beats Portugal in the UEFA Euro 2004 Final and becomes European Champion for first time in its history.
• November 9 » Firefox 1.0 is released.
• November 27 » Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
• December 20 » A gang of thieves steal £26.5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, one of the largest bank robberies in British history.

The temperature on October 28, 2004 was between 9.9 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 4.7 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.