On this day...

1636 Harvard University (Boston) established
1776 Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to NJ
1790 New York gives up claims to Vermont for $30,000
1793 Eli Whitney applies for a patent on the cotton gin
1858 Macys Dept store opens in NYC
1886 Statue of Liberty dedicated by President Grover Cleveland, it is celebrated by the First confetti (ticker tape) parade in New York City
1890 Last NL-AA World Series game Bkln ties Louisville 3 games & 1 tie
1891 Quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7,300
1900 After over 5 months the Paris Olympic games close
1904 St Louis police try a new investigation method-fingerprints
1911 Bill Dobbie of Calgary Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game
1914 Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, founded at Howard University, incorporates
1918 Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up
1919 Volstead Act passed by Congress, start prohibition over Wilson's veto
1922 First coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game
1922 Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government
1924 White Sox beat NY Giants 8-4 in Dublin, less than 20 fans attend
1929 First child born in aircraft, Miami, Fl
1934 Brooklyn & Pittsburgh play a penalty free NFL game
1936 FDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary
1940 Greece successfully resists Italy's attack
1942 Train crashes into bus, killing 16 & injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan)
1946 German rocket engineers begin work in USSR
1948 Flag of Israel is adopted
1953 Bud Grant of Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record)
1958 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking the name John XXIII
1959 Buffalo Bills enter the AFL
1961 Ground broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium for NY Mets
1962 Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis
1962 NY Giant Y.A. Tittle passes for 7 touchdowns vs. Washington Redskins (49-34)
1965 Gateway Arch (630' (190m) high) completed in St Louis, Missouri
1965 Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion
1966 Belgium's Gaston Roelants runs 12-4/5 miles in 1 hour
1970 NBA Cleve Cavaliers First home game, lose to San Diego 110-99
1970 US/USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts
1971 England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit
1971 John & Yoko record "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in NYC
1973 Elmore Smith of the Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game (NBA record)
1974 First time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game-MacMillian & Westfall
1975 Calvin Murphy (Houston) begins NBA free throw streak of 58 games
1976 Billy Martin named AL Manager of the Year (NY Yankees)
1977 TV's Rhoda gets married
1978 Donald Ritchie ran the fastest 100 Km ever, doing it in 7.2722
1979 Dick Howser replaces Billy Martin as manager of Yankees
1981 Edward M McIntrye elected First black mayor of Augusta Georgia
1982 NASA launches RCA-E
1988 Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister
1988 Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gives $10 million to U Wash library
1989 Oakland A's sweep SF Giants in earthquake/BART series

Birthdays which occurred on October 28:

1017 Henry III, Holy Roman emperor (1046-56)
1585 Cornelius Otto, Jansen France, Roman Catholic reform leader
1810 Brig. Gen. Adley H. Gladden, killed at Shiloh
1818 Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons)
1842 Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, orator (Joan of Arc of the Civil War)
1846 Auguste Escoffier, king of chefs & chef of kings
1896 Howard Hanson, Wahoo Nebraska, composer/conductor (Nordic)
1902 Elsa Lanchester Lewisham, London, actress (Bride of Frankenstien)
1903 Evelyn Waugh, London, author (Brideshead Revisited)
1907 Edith Head, fashion designer (MGM)
1907 Lew Parker, actor (Lou Marie-That Girl)
1910 Marie Dollinger, Germany, dropped bataan in 1936 Olympic sprint
1914 Dr. Jonas Salk, NYC, medical researcher, made polio a fear of the past
1915 Dody Goodman, Columbus Ohio, comedienne (Mary Hartman)
1926 Bowie Kuhn, baseball commissioner (1969-1984)
1927 Cleo Laine, Middlesex England, singer (Flesh to a Tiger)
1929 Dody Goodman, Columbus Ohio, actress (Mary Hartman!, Max Duggan)
1929 Joan Plowright, England, actress (Brimstone & Treacle)
1934 Jim Beatty, track runner (First sub 4 minute indoor mile)
1936 Charlie Daniels, country music star (Devil Went Down to Georgia)
1937 Lenny Wilkins, NBA player, coach (Seattle, Cleveland)
1939 Jane Alexander, actress (The Betsy, Kramer vs Kramer)
1940 Gennadi M. Strekalov, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-3, T-8, T-11)
1944 Coluche France, comedian/actor (My Best Friend's Girl)
1944 Dennis Franz, Maywood Illinois, actor (Norman Buntz-Hill Street Blues)
1945 Wayne Fontana, Manchester England, rocker (Groovy Kind of Love)
1947 Tom Fitzsimmons, San Francisco, actor (Franklin-The Paper Chase)
1948 Telma Hopkins, Louisville, singer (Tony Orlando, Family Matters)
1949 Bruce Jenner, US, decathalete (Olympic-gold-1976)
1952 Annie Potts, Nashville TN, actress (Mary Jo-Designing Women)
1953 Lauren Tewes, Trafford PA, actress (Julie McCoy-Love Boat)
1955 William Gates, billionaire CEO (Microsoft)
1957 Stephen Morris, rocker (New Order-Round & Round)
1959 Neville Henry, rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
1959 Walther Bauersfeld, 1919 inventor (First modern projection planetarium)
1960 Mark Derwin, Park Forest Illinois, actor (AC Mallet-Guiding Light)
1962 Daphne Zuniga, actress (Gross Anatomy, Fly II, Spaceballs)
1963 Veronica Gamba, Buenos Aires, playmate (November, 1983)
1965 Jami Gertz, Chicago, actress (Less the Zero, Crossroads, Solarbabies)
1966 Lauren Holly, actress (All My Children)
1974 Leaf Phoenix, Puerto Rico, actor (Russkies, Space Camp)

Deaths which occurred on October 28th:

900 Alfred the Great, English monarch
1957 Anthony J. Morabito, co-owner of SF '49ers, dies while watching a game
1980 Leon Janney, actor (Hawk), dies at 63
1991 John Korbal, film historian (Marlene Dietrich), dies at 51