On This Day in History

[Nessie]

October 28 is the 301st day of the year. There are 64 days remaining until the end of the year


306 - Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
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1636 - A 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.

1664 - The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.

1775 - American Revolutionary War: A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston.

1776 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Plains - British Army forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans.

1864 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Fair Oaks ends - Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond, Virginia.

1886 - In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.

1919 - The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.

1922 - March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.

1929 - Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.

1936 - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.

1942 - The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.

1942 - Holocaust: 2,000 Jewish children and 6,000 Jewish adults from Kraków are deported by Germans to Belzec death camp.

1942 - Holocaust: SS directive orders all Jewish children's mittens and stockings to be sent from the death camps to SS families.

1948 - Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.


1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he had ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.

1964 - Vietnam War: U.S. officials deny any involvement in bombing North Vietnam.

1985 - Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and makes peace overtures to the United States; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.

1986 - The centenary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty is celebrated in New York Harbor.

2005 - Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.

2007 - First NFL game played outside North America is played at Wembley Stadium

From: Wikipedia.org On This Day

[Cruise cutie]

=coolsign... on The Statue of Liberty..

and on all the Holocaust info.. I I knew of it from other reads.. JUST heartbreaking.....
Thanks Nessie...=hug Joanne

[Krazy Kruizers]

Thanks for the information!!

Great stuff.

[Donna - dsw]

Thanks for sharing - I feel so much smarter when I read these!

[r8derfan]

Thanks Nessie. :)

[ShipMaven]

Thank you, Nessie. Great information - some heartbreaking, some happy.

Wonderful to see you posting again. :thumb

[Mbandy]

=coolsign Nessie. Thanks as always :)