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This day in history — October 28
A quote to sit with, and the events that shaped this date.
Quote of the day
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.— Henry Ford
On this day
Read more on Wikipedia ⟶- 2014An unmanned Antares rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia.
- 2009NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program.
- 2007Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first woman elected President of Argentina.
- 1990The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic holds the first multiparty legislature election in the country's history.
- 1971Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket from Launch Area 5B at Woomera, South Australia, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket.
- 1948Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
- 1942The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.
- 1928Declaration of the Youth Pledge in Indonesia, the first time Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem, was sung.
- 1922Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.
- 1919The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
- 1918A new Polish government in western Galicia is established, triggering the Polish-Ukrainian War.
- 1904Panama and Uruguay establish diplomatic links.
- 1886In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty. The first ticker tape parade takes place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the statue is dedicated.
- 1835The United Tribes of New Zealand is established with the signature of the Declaration of Independence.
- 1726The novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is published.
- 1664The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.
- 1636A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.
- 1538The first university in the New World (in present-day Dominican Republic), the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.
- 1492Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World.
- 1453Ladislaus the Posthumous is crowned king of Bohemia in Prague.
- 1449Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
- 1420Beijing is officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty on the same year that the Forbidden City, the seat of government, is completed.
- 1344The lower town of Smyrna is captured by Crusaders.
- 1061Empress Agnes, acting as regent for her son, brings about the election of bishop Cadalus, the antipope Honorius II.
- 969Byzantine general Michael Bourtzes seizes one of Antioch's main wall towers, which he defends against repeated attacks for three days until the reinforcements led by the stratopedarches Peter arrive and secure the city for the Byzantines.
- 306Maxentius is proclaimed Roman emperor.
- AD 97Emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.
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