October 28th in History
On This Day in History
- The city of Beijing becomes the capital of the Ming Dynasty (1420)
- Harvard University is established (1636)
- The British Royal Marines are established (1664)
- The Statue of Liberty is dedicated (1886)
- Czechoslovakia becomes an independent state (1918)
- Benito Mussolini and his fascists march on Rome and take over the Italian government (1922)
- John XXIII becomes pope (1958)
- The Cuban Missile Crisis ends when Nikita Khrushchev orders Soviet missiles removed from Cuba (1962)
- The St. Louis Arch is completed (1965)
Birthdays
- Eliphalet Remington, rifle manufacturer (1793)
- Georges Auguste Escoffier, chef (1846)
- Gilbert Grosvenor, editor of National Geographic (1875)
- Edith Head, costume designer (1897)
- Elsa Lanchester, actress (1902)
- Evelyn Waugh, writer (1903)
- Jonas Salk, developed the first polio vaccine (1914)
- Jack Soo, actor (1917)
- Bowie Kuhn, baseball commissioner (1926)
- Cleo Laine, singer (1927)
- Joan Plowright, actress (1929)
- Charlie Daniels, country singer (1936)
- Dennis Franz, actor (1944)
- Telma Hopkins, singer and actress (1948)
- Bruce Jenner, Olympic athlete and reality TV star (1949)
- Tracy Reed, actress (1949)
- Annie Potts, actress (1952)
- Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder (1955)
- Daphne Zuniga, actress (1962)
- Lauren Holly, actress (1963)
- Jami Gertz, actress (1965)
- Andy Richter, comedian (1966)
- Julia Roberts, actress (1967)
- Brad Paisley, country singer (1972)
- Joaquin Phoenix, actor (1974)
- Matt Smith, 11th Doctor on Doctor Who (1982)
Deaths
- William Dobson, painter (1646)
- John Locke, philosopher (1704)
- Abigail Adams, first lady (1818)
- Ottmar Mergenthaler, Linotype inventor (1899)
- Ted Hughes, poet (1998)
- Red Auerbach, basketball coach (2006)
- Porter Wagoner, singer-songwriter (2007)
- James MacArthur, actor (2010)
Holidays
- Commemoration of Schema-Igumen Adrian (Antoniv) of Poltava and Kozelschansk (Eastern Christianity)
- Deň vzniku samostatného česko-slovenského štátu (Day of the Establishment of an Independent Czecho-Slovak State) (Czech Republic and Slovakia)
- Feasts of Jude the Apostle and Simon the Zealot (Western Christianity)
- International Animation Day (Association Internationale du Film d’Animation)
- Labour Day (New Zealand)
- National Chocolate Day (US)
- Επέτειος του «’Οχι» (Ohi Day) (Greece)
- Prefectural Earthquake Disaster Prevention Day (Gifu Prefecture, Japan)
- Hari Sumpah Pemuda (Youth Pledge Day) (Indonesia)
Photo: The Statue of Liberty under construction, 1884.