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  • 1492 Christopher Columbus sights Cuba and claims it for Spain under the name "Juana"
  • 1538 The first university in the Americas, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established in Santo Domingo
  • 1746 The Peruvian cities of Lima and Callao are demolished by an earthquake, killing 18,000
  • Michael Faraday working in his converted kitchen laboratory in the 1850s. Painting by artist Harriet Moore.

    Faraday, the Blacksmith's Boy Who Changed the World

    1831 Michael Faraday demonstrates his dynamo invention, an electric generator
  • The Statue of Liberty, New York

    Statue of Liberty

    1886 The Statue of Liberty is dedicated by President Grover Cleveland and is celebrated with the first confetti (ticker tape) parade in New York City
  • 1919 The Volstead Act is passed by Congress, establishing a nationwide ban on alcohol, despite President Woodrow Wilson's veto
  • 1924 Miner M. de Bruin discovers the infant fossil skull, "Taung child," in a lime quarry in Taung, South Africa; paleoanthropologist Raymond Dart identifies the fossil as a new hominin species, Australopithecus africanus
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  • 1941 "How Green Was My Valley," based on the novel by Richard Llewellyn, directed by John Ford, and starring Walter Pidgeon and Maureen O'Hara, premieres in New York (Best Picture 1942)
  • 1961 "Fiorello!," starring Tom Bosley, closes at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York City after 796 performances and a Pulitzer Prize
  • 1900 II Summer (Modern) Olympic Games in Paris end after five months; no opening or closing ceremonies are held

St. Louis police try a new investigative method, fingerprints

October 28, 1904

  • Erasmus

    1466 - 1536

  • John Laurens

    1754 - 1782

  • Claude Niépce

    Born in 1764

  • Jonas Salk

    1914 - 1995

  • Bill Gates

    70 Years Old

  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

    69 Years Old
More Birthdays on October 28

  • Caitlyn Jenner

    76 Years Old

  • John Romero

    58 Years Old

  • Julia Roberts

    58 Years Old

  • Joaquin Phoenix

    51 Years Old

  • Matt Smith

    43 Years Old

  • Howard Hanson

    1896 - 1981

  • Brad Paisley

    53 Years Old

  • Bowie Kuhn

    1926 - 2007

  • Lenny Wilkens

    1937 - 2025

  • Bernie Ecclestone

    95 Years Old

Research indicating the plague dates back to the Bronze Age in skeletons 5,783 years old is published by a University of Copenhagen team in "Cell"

October 28, 2015

  • 1533 Prince Henry of France (later Henry II) (14) marries Florentine noblewoman Catherine de' Medici (14) in Marseille
  • 1648 Future Governor of New France Louis de Buade de Frontenac (28) secretly marries fellow aristocrat Anne de La Grange-Trianon (16)
  • 1863 Painter Edouard Manet (31) weds Suzanne Leenhoff (34)
  • 2022 Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen (42) and American NFL quarterback Tom Brady (45) announce they have divorced after 13 years of marriage
More October 28 Weddings

  • John Locke

    1632 - 1704

  • Abigail Adams

    1744 - 1818

  • Tommy Flowers

    1905 - 1998

  • Red Auerbach

    1917 - 2006

  • Jerry Lee Lewis

    1935 - 2022

  • Matthew Perry

    1969 - 2023
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  • The Statue of Liberty, New York

    Weekly Quiz for October 28 - November 3

    What year was the Statue of Liberty dedicated in NY? Which two continents were connected by the Bosphorus Bridge? What was the 1st animal to be sent into orbit?
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  • All guns blazing in the legendary gunfight between the Earp brothers and the Cowboys

    The Gunfight at OK Corral

    October 26, 1881
  • Trial of strength: How a cartoonist saw the confrontation between Kruschev and Kennedy

    The Man Who Saved The World

    October 27, 1962
  • Margaret Thatcher poses on the M25 before cutting a ribbon to open it

    Splendid Achievement becomes 'The Road To Hell'

    October 29, 1986
  • Orson Welles at the microphone and how the New York Times reacted to the broadcast

    Panic Over War of the Worlds

    October 30, 1938
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