CommunityGeelong, Australia
A 167-year-old ginkgo in Geelong was voted Victoria's tree of the year
The National Trust said the botanic-garden tree, planted in 1859 and about 20 metres tall, took nearly a third of the votes.
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Good news on October 28.
Positive things that happened on October 28, with 2 verified milestones. Each milestone links to the source it was checked against.
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1875
October 28, 1875, is the birthday of Gilbert Grosvenor, the editor credited with turning National Geographic Magazine from a small scholarly journal into a world-renowned monthly.
For a read-aloud. Gilbert Grosvenor was born, and he later helped National Geographic reach readers around the world.
1886
On October 28, 1886, President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France to the United States.
For a read-aloud. France's gift, the Statue of Liberty, was dedicated in New York Harbor.
For the classroom
Two questions a teacher can use as a warm-up. This page is for an adult to read with a class.
- What gift could one community give another?
- How can a magazine or a story help people care about a faraway place?
From the archive
35 stories published on October 28 in any year.
Community
HeroesTucson, Arizona
A 7-year-old in Tucson called 911 and kept his brother calm
Joe Fennel received a Tucson Fire Citizen Award after he called 911 during his mother's seizure and stayed on the line while keeping his little brother calm.
Verified · KVOA
AnimalsBonduel, Wisconsin
A Bonduel coffee shop closed so the staff could help a sanctuary
The Mill in Bonduel shut for a day so its workers, many of them high school students, could volunteer at Happily Ever After animal sanctuary in Green Bay.
Verified · WBAY
HeroesAurora, Colorado
A retired United Airlines worker has given 500 hours to a Colorado food bank
Bonnie Kirlin of Aurora has volunteered with Food Bank of the Rockies for more than eight years. After retiring, she still comes three or four times a month and packs weekend food bags for kids.
Verified · Denver7
HeroesTuckerton, New Jersey
A Tuckerton student used two-day-old CPR training to help a baby
Ariana Leonardis, a student at Ocean County Vocational Technical School, had just learned CPR. Two days later in Tuckerton she helped a 3-week-old start breathing again.
Verified · NJ 101.5
ScienceHuon Marine Park
About 2.8 million eels gather to spawn beside a seamount off Tasmania
A CSIRO-led study in Royal Society Open Science puts the only known deep-sea eel spawning aggregation at Patience Seamount, in Huon Marine Park.
Verified · ABC News
CommunityBismarck-Mandan
Bismarck-Mandan students start a can drive for the food bank
High school students launched Bis-Man Gives a Can, a drive for the Great Plains Food Bank with a goal of 2,000 food items from each school.
Verified · Prairie Public
HeroesBridgeport, West Virginia
Bridgeport honors the CPR that saved a basketball player
Mackenzie Holmes received Bridgeport's Good Samaritan award after CPR at a basketball game kept Daniel Rowan alive. Three weeks later the two men shook hands.
Verified · WDTV
CommunityBrookland, Arkansas
Brookland schools opened a drive-thru pantry that served 22 families
Brookland Public Schools fully opened a drive-thru food pantry. Twenty-two families picked up food on the first morning, backed by $7,000 that students and staff raised.
Verified · KAIT
HeroesCandlewood Lake
Four rescuers are honored for saving swimmers on Candlewood Lake
George Nanos, 15-year-old Hannah Welling, and 14-year-olds Jaden Vazquez and Keen Cercy received Connecticut General Assembly citations after three swimmers were brought out of Candlewood Lake.
Verified · FOX61
HeroesGreen Bay, Wisconsin
Green Bay firefighters got a dog out of a bedroom fire
Crews found the fire in a third-floor bedroom on West Walnut Street, put it out, and rescued a dog. Nobody was hurt.
Verified · WBAY
ScienceIowa City, Iowa
Iowa engineering students built a custom game controller
Biomedical engineering students at the University of Iowa built Dylan Huntbach a Nintendo Switch controller with oversized buttons and joysticks he can use after a spinal cord injury.
Verified · University of Iowa College of Engineering
CommunityAdams, Nebraska
Jeff Kinney surprised a rural Nebraska school with books
Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney walked into a Halloween assembly at Freeman Public Schools in Adams and gave the library $1,000 in children's books.
Verified · KLKN
CommunityKatlehong, South Africa
Katlehong Primary opened the 100th library in a long reading project
A literacy partnership handed the school in Gauteng its library on October 27. The project says it now reaches about 125,000 learners a day.
Verified · Engineering News
CommunityJohnston, Iowa
MadeKindly has given cashmere wraps to nearly 500 patients
JoAnn Manning of Johnston started MadeKindly in honor of her sister. The foundation has given cashmere wraps to nearly 500 women going through breast cancer treatment in Iowa.
Verified · KIMT
CommunityMesa, Arizona
Mesa seniors earned karate belts, including an 80-year-old
More than a dozen seniors at the Optum Community Center in Mesa earned orange or yellow belts in a modified karate class built for balance, strength, and mobility.
Verified · AZFamily
CommunityChubbuck, Idaho
Miss Amanda is Idaho's Librarian of the Year
Children's librarian Amanda Bowden of the Portneuf District Library in Chubbuck won the Idaho Library Association's Librarian of the Year award. She leads storytimes for more than 400 preschoolers.
Verified · KIFI Local News 8
CommunityMissoula, Montana
Missoula's tallest mural went up in 22 days
Ernest Doty and AJ Tiam finished a mural of more than 6,000 square feet on the Clark Fork Riverside building, now the tallest in Missoula.
Verified · NBC Montana
AnimalsPortimão, Portugal
Molly, cared for in Kerry for 22 years, swam off the Algarve coast
The loggerhead, about 257 pounds, was lowered from a Portuguese navy ship 12 miles off Portimão on October 28 after months of preparation at Zoomarine.
Verified · The Journal
CommunitySouth Park
Ninety small houses opened in Seattle's South Park
The Low Income Housing Institute opened Cloverleaf Tiny House Village in South Park, 90 small houses and the group's newest and largest village.
Verified · KOMO
CommunityFayetteville, Arkansas
Northwest Arkansas gave six kids custom ride-on cars
UAMS and the University of Arkansas marked the third year of their Go Baby Go program by handing six modified ride-on cars to children with mobility needs in Fayetteville.
Verified · UAMS News
HeroesBryan, Texas
Off-duty Brazos County deputies cleared a choking man's airway
Sgt. Zane Pedersen and Deputy Dillon Donaldson were at a Daddy-Daughter Dance in Bryan with their families when they stepped in and got a choking man breathing again.
Verified · KBTX
AnimalsBedmond, United Kingdom
One of Britain's rarest bats is already flying over a Hertfordshire orchard
A 2024 survey found barbastelles at the Serge Hill Project near Abbots Langley, and keepers of the orchard are adding monitors to learn where the bats roost.
Verified · BBC
CommunityRaglan, New Zealand
Raglan Area School opened a library with a view of the ocean
The new Te Rapunga library has rolling shelves and a quiet corner for older students. The name, a gift from a former teacher, means a search for knowledge.
Verified · Raglan Chronicle
CommunityRolling Fork, Mississippi
Rolling Fork gets Mississippi's first Oz tornado shelter
The National Storm Chasers Society and Oz Saferooms installed Mississippi's first Oz shelter at Brad Nicholson's home in Rolling Fork and a second one at a local church.
Verified · WLBT
HeroesBean's Purchase, New Hampshire
Search-and-rescue volunteers carried a hiker down Mount Moriah
Thomas McGrimley slipped on a ledge near the summit in Bean's Purchase. Twenty-four volunteers reached him, splinted his leg, and carried him out in a litter.
Verified · Conway Daily Sun
AnimalsArcadia, Kansas
Special Olympics athletes spent a day with rescue horses
Special Olympics Kansas athletes joined Orion Ranch Sanctuary's second Boo Bash in Arcadia for a dance, lunch, games, and time with nearly 50 rescued horses.
Verified · KOAM
CommunityLue, Australia
Sydney students and Wiradjuri owners recorded six more grinding sites near Lue
Eleven undergraduates spent late September with traditional owners on a property near Mudgee, mapping axe-grinding grooves and artefacts already thick on the ground.
Verified · ABC News
Health & TechSilver Spring, Maryland
The FDA approved an earlier combination for some metastatic prostate cancers
On October 26 the FDA approved talazoparib plus enzalutamide for men with newly diagnosed metastatic prostate cancer that has HRR gene mutations, after a 599-patient trial cut the risk of radiographic progression or death by 52%.
Verified · Healio
CommunityJohnson, Vermont
The Long Trail's last key easement moves hikers into the woods
After more than 30 years of talks, the Green Mountain Club secured the last easement it needed to move about 3 miles of the Long Trail off West Settlement Road and onto Dry Ridge. More than 98% of the trail is now protected.
Verified · Vermont Public
CommunityBeulah, North Dakota
Thea swam with turtles, then her family gathered 300 toys
Thea, a second grader in Beulah who has been cancer-free for nearly five years, used a Make-A-Wish trip to swim with turtles. Her family has since collected 300 toys for the Roger Maris Cancer Center.
Verified · Valley News Live
AnimalsEdinburgh, United Kingdom
Three capybara pups were born overnight at Edinburgh Zoo
Keepers found Luna and Rodney's pups on October 28. Their sexes and names will wait for a health check, and older brother Bru is adjusting.
Verified · STV News
AnimalsHue, Vietnam
Twenty-one crested argus pheasants moved from Saigon Zoo to Bach Ma
Nine males and 12 females reached the national park on October 27 and were handed over the next day, to live in enclosures while keepers study whether they can settle.
Verified · Báo Nhân Dân
AnimalsRoanoke, Virginia
Two late-season bobcat kittens are in round-the-clock care
Two bobcat kittens found after their den was disturbed near Chatham are being bottle-fed around the clock at the Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center in Roanoke.
Verified · WSLS
AnimalsOmaha, Nebraska
Volunteer pilots flew a kitten from Omaha to a veterinary school
Bob and Vicki Dyer flew Serena, a 10-week-old feral kitten with twisted leg syndrome, from Millard Airport to the Kansas State veterinary school for treatment.
Verified · WOWT