This day in history – October 28

• 306 Maxentius proclaimed Emperor of Rome.

• 1061 Emperor disposes of bishop Cadalus and Pope Honorius II

• 1422 Charles V’s son succeeds him as king Charles VII of France

• 1492 Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba and claims it for Spain

• 1538 The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established on Hispaniola

• 1636 Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts founded

• 1646 First Protestant church assembly for American Indians established in Massachusetts

• 1726 “Gulliver’s Travels” by Jonathan Swift is published by Benjamin Motte in London

• 1740 Ivan VI becomes Tsar of Russia [OS=Oct 17]

• 1746 Peruvian cities of Lima and Callao demolished by earthquake, 18 000 die.

• 1793 Eli Whitney applies for a patent on cotton gin

• 1848 The first railroad in Spain – between Barcelona and Mataró – is opened.

• 1886 Statue of Liberty dedicated by US President Grover Cleveland, celebrated by first confetti (ticker tape) parade in New York City

• 1891 Quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7 300.

• 1913 “Krazy Kat” comic strip by George Herriman debuts in NY Journal

• 1916 Australian government holds a national referendum seeking support for the proposal of compulsory conscription; it is rejected

• 1918 Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up

• 1919 Volstead Act passed by US Congress, establishing prohibition, despite President Woodrow Wilson’s veto

• 1922 Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy’s government

• 1924 Miner M.de Bruin discovers the infant fossil skull, “Taung child” in a lime quarry in Taung, South Africa. Paleoanthropologist Raymond Dartidentifies the fossil as a new hominin species, Australopithecus africanus.

• 1928 Indonesian child laws enforced in Bahasa Indonesia

• 1936 Franklin D Roosevelt rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary

• 1940 Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Florence.

• 1942 Sixth day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery.

• 1942 Train crashes into bus, killing 16 and injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan).

• 1943 German submarine U-220 sunk by US aircraft in the Atlantic.

• 1944 Russia & Bulgaria sign weapons pact.

• 1948 Flag of Israel is adopted.

• 1949 Georges Bidault elected president of France.

• 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded to Ernest Hemingway.

• 1955 Egypt and Saudi Arabia sign defense treaty.

• 1958 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking name John XXIII.

• 1962 Cuban missile crisis: US President JFK receives letter from Soviet Leaderr Khrushchev suggesting agreement.

• 1971 John Lennon and Yoko Ono record “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” in NYC.

• 1976 Train collision at Goes Neth, 7 die

• 1981 Edward M McIntrye elected first black mayor of Augusta Georgia

• 1986 The centennial of the Statue of Liberty’s dedication is celebrated in New York Harbor.

• 1988 Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister

• 1992 Lee Jang Rim predicts that today would be the end of the world!

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

• 2007 “Bee Movie” premieres in the US and the UK.

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

• 2012 Syrian ceasefire collapses and 128 people are killed in ongoing civil war violence.

• 2012 15 people are killed and 33 injured by a series of Baghdad car bombings.

• 2015 World Heath Organization ranks Tuberculosis alongside HIV as world’s deadliest infectious diseases, killing 1.2 million (2014).

• 2015 Research indicating Plague dates back to the Bronze age in skeletons 5,783 years old, published by University of Copenhagen team in “Cell”.

• 2016 Disney and Alessia Cara release the sing “How Far I’ll Go” for the film “Moana”.

Source: www.onthisday.com