History Snacks
What happened in history on October 28?
Change Date~ 312 ~
Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
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~ 1492 ~
Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World.
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~ 1636 ~
Harvard University is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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~ 1886 ~
The Statue of Liberty is dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland.
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~ 1919 ~
The Volstead Act is passed by the U.S. Congress, enforcing the prohibition of alcohol.
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~ 1922 ~
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy.
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~ 1961 ~
The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested, with an explosive yield of 50 megatons.
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~ 1962 ~
Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he has ordered the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
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~ 1965 ~
Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri is completed.
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~ 1995 ~
A fire in the Baku Metro, Azerbaijan, kills 289 people.
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~ 2007 ~
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is elected as the first female President of Argentina, succeeding her husband, Néstor Kirchner.
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~ 2009 ~
NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the first test flight for the Ares I rocket.
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