October 28
1636 - Harvard College was founded.
1793 - Eli Whitney applied for a patent for the cotton gin.
1858 - Rowland Hussey Macy opened his first New York store at Sixth Avenue and 14th Street in Manhattan.
1886 - The Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland.
1919 - Congress passed the Volstead Act, or the National Prohibition Act, overriding President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
1922 - Benito Mussolini took control of the government of Italy.
1940 - Italy invaded Greece during World War II.
1958 - Cardinal Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was elected pope and took the name John XXIII.
1962 - Nikita Khrushchev told the United States that he had ordered the dismantling of Soviet missile bases in Cuba; in return, the U.S. agreed to remove nuclear missiles from U.S. installations in Turkey.
1965 - Pope Paul VI issued a decree absolving Jews of collective guilt for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
1980 - Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan asked voters during a debate with President Jimmy Carter in Cleveland "Are you better off than you were four years ago?"
1991 - What became known as "The Perfect Storm" began forming hundreds of miles east of Nova Scotia; lost at sea during the storm were the six crew members of the Andrea Gail, a swordfishing boat from Gloucester, Massachusetts.
1996 - Richard Jewell, cleared of committing the Olympic park bombing, held a news conference in Atlanta in which he thanked his mother for standing by him and lashed out at reporters and investigators who’d depicted him as the bomber, who turned out to be Eric Rudolph.
2002 - American diplomat Laurence Foley was assassinated in front of his house in Amman, Jordan, in the first such attack on a U.S. diplomat in decades.
2005 - Vice President Dick Cheney's top adviser, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, resigned after he was indicted on charges of obstruction of justice, perjury and making false statements in the CIA leak investigation. (Libby was convicted and sentenced to 30 months in prison. President George W. Bush commuted his sentence.)
2007 - Cristina Fernandez was elected Argentina's first woman president.
2009 - Angela Merkel was sworn in for a second term as German chancellor.
2012 - Airlines canceled more than 7,000 flights in advance of Hurricane Sandy, transit systems in New York, Philadelphia and Washington were shut down, and forecasters warned the New York area could see an 11-foot wall of water.
2016 - The FBI dropped what amounted to a political bomb on the Hillary Clinton campaign when it announced it was investigating whether emails on a device belonging to disgraced ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of one of Clinton's closest aides, Huma Abedin, might contain classified information.
2020 - Miles Taylor, a former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, revealed that he was the former Trump administration official who had written a scathing anti-Trump op-ed and book under the pen name “Anonymous”; the White House labeled him a “low-level, disgruntled former staffer.”
Birthdays
23 - Nolan Gould (actor)
24 - Eliana Jones (actress)
24 - Sierra McCormick (actress)
29 - Lexi Ainsworth (actress)
34 - Frank Ocean (singer)
36 - Troian Bellisario (actress)
37 - Finn Wittrock (actor)
39 - Matt Smith (actor)
41 - Charlie Semine (actor)
43 - Justin Guarini (singer)
43 - Gwendoline Christie (actress)
47 - Joaquin Phoenix (actor)
49 - Brad Paisley (country singer)
52 - Ben Harper (singer)
52 - Jeremy Davies (actor)
53 - Caitlin Cary (country singer)
54 - Julia Roberts (actress)
55 - Andy Richter (actor/comedian/TV host)
55 - Chris Bauer (actor)
56 - Jami Gertz (actress)
58 - Sheryl Underwood (actress/comedian/TV host)
58 - Lauren Holly (actress)
59 - Daphne Zuniga (actress)
61 - Mark Derwin (actor)
66 - Bill Gates (Microsoft co-founder)
69 - Annie Potts (actress)
72 - Caitlyn Jenner (reality star)
73 - Telma Hopkins (actress)
77 - Dennis Franz (actor)
82 - Jane Alexander (actress)
92 - Joan Plowright (actress)
94 - Cleo Laine (singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 28
1893 - Nebraska and Baker College play to a 10-10 tie.
1899 - Kansas City Medics defeat Nebraska 24-0.
1905 - Nebraska defeats Pickle Smoochers 102-0.
1911 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 34-0.
1916 - Nebraska defeated Nebraska Wesleyan 21-0.
1922 - Nebraska defeated Oklahoma 39-7.
1933 - Nebraska defeated Oklahoma 16-7.
1939 - #10 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 25-9.
1944 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 24-20.
1950 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 33-26.
1959 - The American Football League awards the Buffalo Bills franchise to Ralph C. Wilson.
1961 - Missouri defeats Nebraska 10-0.
1962 - Y.A. Tittle of the New York Giants throws seven touchdown passes in a 49-34 win over the Washington Redskins.
1967 - Nebraska defeats TCU 29-0.
1972 - #3 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 34-0.
1978 - #4 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 22-14.
1981 - The Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the New York Yankees in six games to win the World Series.
1989 - The Oakland Athletics sweep the San Francisco Giants to win the World Series.
1989 - #4 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 49-17.
1993 - Ron Francis (Pittsburgh Penguins) became only the 38th player in NHL history to achieve 1,000 career points.
1995 - The Atlanta Braves defeat the Cleveland Indians in six games to win the World Series.
1995 - #2 Nebraska defeats #7 Colorado 44-21.
1997 - The NBA announced that they had hired the first women to officiate a major-league all-male sport. The women were Dee Kantner and Violet Palmer.
2000 - #3 Oklahoma defeats #1 Nebraska 31-14.
2006 - Oklahoma State defeats #20 Nebraska 41-29.
2006 - Hall of Fame basketball coach Red Auerbach died at age 89.
2007 - The Boston Red Sox sweep the Colorado Rockies to win the World Series.
2011 - NBA Commissioner David Stern canceled all NBA games through November after labor negotiations broke down for the second time in a week.
2011 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Texas Rangers in seven games to win the World Series.
2012 - The San Francisco Giants sweep the Detroit Tigers to win the World Series.
2013 - Penn State University said it would pay $59.7 million to 26 young men over claims of child sexual abuse at the hands of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
2017 - Nebraska defeats Purdue 25-24.
2018 - The Boston Red Sox defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers in five games to win their ninth World Series in franchise history.
1636 - Harvard College was founded.
1793 - Eli Whitney applied for a patent for the cotton gin.
1858 - Rowland Hussey Macy opened his first New York store at Sixth Avenue and 14th Street in Manhattan.
1886 - The Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland.
1919 - Congress passed the Volstead Act, or the National Prohibition Act, overriding President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
1922 - Benito Mussolini took control of the government of Italy.
1940 - Italy invaded Greece during World War II.
1958 - Cardinal Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was elected pope and took the name John XXIII.
1962 - Nikita Khrushchev told the United States that he had ordered the dismantling of Soviet missile bases in Cuba; in return, the U.S. agreed to remove nuclear missiles from U.S. installations in Turkey.
1965 - Pope Paul VI issued a decree absolving Jews of collective guilt for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
1980 - Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan asked voters during a debate with President Jimmy Carter in Cleveland "Are you better off than you were four years ago?"
1991 - What became known as "The Perfect Storm" began forming hundreds of miles east of Nova Scotia; lost at sea during the storm were the six crew members of the Andrea Gail, a swordfishing boat from Gloucester, Massachusetts.
1996 - Richard Jewell, cleared of committing the Olympic park bombing, held a news conference in Atlanta in which he thanked his mother for standing by him and lashed out at reporters and investigators who’d depicted him as the bomber, who turned out to be Eric Rudolph.
2002 - American diplomat Laurence Foley was assassinated in front of his house in Amman, Jordan, in the first such attack on a U.S. diplomat in decades.
2005 - Vice President Dick Cheney's top adviser, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, resigned after he was indicted on charges of obstruction of justice, perjury and making false statements in the CIA leak investigation. (Libby was convicted and sentenced to 30 months in prison. President George W. Bush commuted his sentence.)
2007 - Cristina Fernandez was elected Argentina's first woman president.
2009 - Angela Merkel was sworn in for a second term as German chancellor.
2012 - Airlines canceled more than 7,000 flights in advance of Hurricane Sandy, transit systems in New York, Philadelphia and Washington were shut down, and forecasters warned the New York area could see an 11-foot wall of water.
2016 - The FBI dropped what amounted to a political bomb on the Hillary Clinton campaign when it announced it was investigating whether emails on a device belonging to disgraced ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of one of Clinton's closest aides, Huma Abedin, might contain classified information.
2020 - Miles Taylor, a former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, revealed that he was the former Trump administration official who had written a scathing anti-Trump op-ed and book under the pen name “Anonymous”; the White House labeled him a “low-level, disgruntled former staffer.”
Birthdays
23 - Nolan Gould (actor)
24 - Eliana Jones (actress)
24 - Sierra McCormick (actress)
29 - Lexi Ainsworth (actress)
34 - Frank Ocean (singer)
36 - Troian Bellisario (actress)
37 - Finn Wittrock (actor)
39 - Matt Smith (actor)
41 - Charlie Semine (actor)
43 - Justin Guarini (singer)
43 - Gwendoline Christie (actress)
47 - Joaquin Phoenix (actor)
49 - Brad Paisley (country singer)
52 - Ben Harper (singer)
52 - Jeremy Davies (actor)
53 - Caitlin Cary (country singer)
54 - Julia Roberts (actress)
55 - Andy Richter (actor/comedian/TV host)
55 - Chris Bauer (actor)
56 - Jami Gertz (actress)
58 - Sheryl Underwood (actress/comedian/TV host)
58 - Lauren Holly (actress)
59 - Daphne Zuniga (actress)
61 - Mark Derwin (actor)
66 - Bill Gates (Microsoft co-founder)
69 - Annie Potts (actress)
72 - Caitlyn Jenner (reality star)
73 - Telma Hopkins (actress)
77 - Dennis Franz (actor)
82 - Jane Alexander (actress)
92 - Joan Plowright (actress)
94 - Cleo Laine (singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 28
1893 - Nebraska and Baker College play to a 10-10 tie.
1899 - Kansas City Medics defeat Nebraska 24-0.
1905 - Nebraska defeats Pickle Smoochers 102-0.
1911 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 34-0.
1916 - Nebraska defeated Nebraska Wesleyan 21-0.
1922 - Nebraska defeated Oklahoma 39-7.
1933 - Nebraska defeated Oklahoma 16-7.
1939 - #10 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 25-9.
1944 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 24-20.
1950 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 33-26.
1959 - The American Football League awards the Buffalo Bills franchise to Ralph C. Wilson.
1961 - Missouri defeats Nebraska 10-0.
1962 - Y.A. Tittle of the New York Giants throws seven touchdown passes in a 49-34 win over the Washington Redskins.
1967 - Nebraska defeats TCU 29-0.
1972 - #3 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 34-0.
1978 - #4 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 22-14.
1981 - The Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the New York Yankees in six games to win the World Series.
1989 - The Oakland Athletics sweep the San Francisco Giants to win the World Series.
1989 - #4 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 49-17.
1993 - Ron Francis (Pittsburgh Penguins) became only the 38th player in NHL history to achieve 1,000 career points.
1995 - The Atlanta Braves defeat the Cleveland Indians in six games to win the World Series.
1995 - #2 Nebraska defeats #7 Colorado 44-21.
1997 - The NBA announced that they had hired the first women to officiate a major-league all-male sport. The women were Dee Kantner and Violet Palmer.
2000 - #3 Oklahoma defeats #1 Nebraska 31-14.
2006 - Oklahoma State defeats #20 Nebraska 41-29.
2006 - Hall of Fame basketball coach Red Auerbach died at age 89.
2007 - The Boston Red Sox sweep the Colorado Rockies to win the World Series.
2011 - NBA Commissioner David Stern canceled all NBA games through November after labor negotiations broke down for the second time in a week.
2011 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Texas Rangers in seven games to win the World Series.
2012 - The San Francisco Giants sweep the Detroit Tigers to win the World Series.
2013 - Penn State University said it would pay $59.7 million to 26 young men over claims of child sexual abuse at the hands of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
2017 - Nebraska defeats Purdue 25-24.
2018 - The Boston Red Sox defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers in five games to win their ninth World Series in franchise history.
