Oct 282008
- canonization of Saint Andrew Thong Kim Nguyen
- death of Emperor Joseph II
- birth of Blessed Andrew Nam Thung
- birth of Saint Joseph Luu
- birth of Father Theobald Mathew
- birth of the writer James Smith
- Mother Bernardina and Frances Dickinson found a convent of Discalced Carmelites, the first Catholic convent founded in the United States
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