October 28
312 | Constantine the Great defeats Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius at the Mulvian Bridge. | |
969 | After a prolonged siege, the Byzantines end 300 years of Arab rule in Antioch. | |
1216 | Henry III of England is crowned. | |
1628 | After a fifteen-month siege, the Huguenot town of La Rochelle surrenders to royal forces. | |
1636 | Harvard College, the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, is founded in Cambridge, Mass. | |
1768 | Germans and Acadians join French Creoles in their armed revolt against the Spanish governor of New Orleans. | |
1793 | Eli Whitney applies for a patent on the cotton gin, a machine which cleans the tight-clinging seeds from short-staple cotton easily and effectively–a job which was previously done by hand. | |
1863 | In a rare night attack, Confederates under Gen. James Longstreet attack a Federal force near Chattanooga, Tennessee, hoping to cut their supply line, the "cracker line." They fail. | |
1886 | The Statue of Liberty, originally named Liberty Enlightening the World, is dedicated at Liberty Island, N. Y., formerly Bedloe's Island, by President Grover Cleveland | |
1901 | Race riots sparked by Booker T. Washington's visit to the White House kill 34. | |
1904 | The St. Louis police try a new investigation method: fingerprints. | |
1914 | The German cruiser Emden, disguised as a British ship, steams into Penang Harbor near Malaya and sinks the Russian light cruiser Zhemchug. | |
1914 | George Eastman announces the invention of the color photographic process. | |
1919 | Over President Wilson's veto, Congress passes the National Prohibition Act, or Volstead Act, named after its promoter, Congressman Andrew J. Volstead. It provides enforcement guidelines for the Prohibition Amendment. | |
1927 | Pan American Airways launches the first scheduled international flight. | |
1940 | Italy invades Greece, launching six divisions on four fronts from occupied Albania. | |
1944 | The first B-29 Superfortress bomber mission flies from the airfields in the Mariana Islands in a strike against the Japanese base at Truk. | |
1960 | In a note to the OAS (Organization of American States), the United States charges that Cuba has been receiving substantial quantities of arms and numbers of military technicians" from the Soviet bloc. | |
1962 | Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders Soviet missiles removed from Cuba, ending theCuban Missile Crisis. | |
1965 | Construction completed on St. Louis Arch; at 630 feet (192m), it is the world's tallest arch. | |
1971 | Britain launches the satellite Prospero into orbit, using a Black Arrow carrier rocket; this is the first and so far (2013) only British satellite launched by a British rocket. | |
1982 | The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party wins election, giving Spain its first Socialist government since the death of right-wing President Francisco Franco. | |
2005 | Libby "Scooter" Lewis, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, resigns after being indicted for "outing" CIA agent Valerie Plame. | |
2007 | Argentina elects its first woman president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. |
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