Today 28th October has had some things happen in history and are sure worth knowing. Here are a few. Enjoy:
- 1538 - The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.
- 1636 - Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts) founded. The original name was Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was the first school of higher education in America.
- 1904 - The St. Louis Police Department became the first to use fingerprinting.
- 1918 - Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up
- 1936 - The Statue of Liberty was rededicated by U.S. President Roosevelt on its 50th anniversary.
- 1954 - Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded to Ernest Hemingway
- 1958 - Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking name John XXIII
- 1992 - Lee Jang Rim predicts that today would be the end of the world!
- 1998 - An Air China (Mainland China) jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan
I hope you do have an amazing day today.
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