These are just some of the events that happened on October 28th.
1636, Harvard University was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1746, An earthquake demolished Lima and Callao in Peru.
1886, The Statue of Liberty was presented to the U.S. by France to mark the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
1914, American George Eastman announced the invention of a co lour photographic process to be marketed by his Eastman Kodak Company.
1919, Congress passed the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
1936, President Franklin Roosevelt rededicated the Statue of Liberty on its 50th birthday.
1942, The Alaskan Highway was completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.
1958, The state opening of the British Parliament was televised for the first time.
1962, The Cuban Missile Crisis came to an end when Russia's leader Nikita Kruschev announced the USSR would withdraw its missiles from Cuba and President John F. Kennedy said the U.S. would lift the blockade.
1971, The House of Commons voted by a majority of 112 in favor of Britain joining the European Common Market.
1985, Sandinista Daniel Ortega became president of Nicaragua and made peace overtures to the U.S.
1986, The centenary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty was held in New York Harbor.
1996, Archaeologists in Slovenia announced they had found a flute-like object played by Neanderthal man - the first evidence that he was musical.
1998, Witchcraft was blamed when a bolt of lightening killed all 11 members of a soccer team in the African Congo village of Bena Tshadi during a game in which both teams were evenly matched 1-1.
2002, American diplomat Laurence Foley was assassinated in front of his house in Amman, Jordan.
2005, Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, resigned after being indicted in the Valerie Plame case.
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