OCTOBER 28
1980:Republican nominee Ronald Reagan faces off against sitting Democratic President Jimmy Carter in their one and only pre-election debate. Reagan famously asks the Cleveland audience the rhetorical question: "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" The answer must have been no, because Reagan would be elected in a landslide a week later.
1922: Princeton University narrowly upsets the University of Chicago 21-18 in the first college football game broadcast nationwide by radio, allowing East Coast fans to tune in to the play-by-play at Chicago's Stagg Field.
1962: The Cuban missile crisis officially ends, pulling the world away from the brink of nuclear war. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev agrees to President John F. Kennedy's demands that the Soviet Union remove its missile bases from Cuba, while the United States lifts the threat of military action against Cuba, privately promising to remove its own ballistic missiles from Italy and Turkey.
1971:Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit.
1929:Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
1886:In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
1538:Universidad Santo Tomas de Aquino, world's first university, founded
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