October 28
1636 - Harvard College was founded.
1793 - Eli Whitney applied for a patent for his 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, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
1922 - Benito Mussolini took control of the government of Italy.
1940 - Italy invaded Greece during World War II.
1958 - The Roman Catholic patriarch of Venice, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, was elected pope and took the name John XXIII.
1962 - Nikita Khrushchev told the U.S. 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.
1976 - Former Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman entered a federal prison camp in Safford, Arizona to begin serving his sentence for Watergate-related convictions. (He was released in April 1978.)
1980 - Republican nominee Ronald Reagan asked voters during a debate with President Jimmy Carter in Cleveland, "are you better off now than you were four years ago?"
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.
2010 - Investigators with the president’s oil spill commission said tests performed before the deadly blowout of BP’s oil well in the Gulf of Mexico should have raised doubts about the cement used to seal the well, but that the company and its cementing contractor used it anyway. (The cement mix’s failure to prevent oil and gas from entering the well was cited by BP and others as one of the causes of the accident.)
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.
2015 - Dennis Hastert pleaded guilty before a federal judge in Chicago to evading banking laws in a hush-money scheme. (A court filing later revealed allegations of sexual abuse against Hastert by at least four former students from his days as a high school wrestling coach; Hastert ended up being sentenced to 15 months in prison.)
2016 - The FBI dropped what amounted to a political bomb on the 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.
2019 - The S&P 500 closed at an all-time high for the first time in months; the Nasdaq composite was also near a record.
Birthdays
22 - Nolan Gould (actor)
23 - Sierra McCormick (actress)
23 - Eliana Jones (actress)
24 - Laine MacNeil (actress)
28 - Lexi Ainsworth (actress)
33 - Frank Ocean (singer)
35 - Troian Bellisario (actress)
36 - Finn Wittrock (actor)
38 - Matt Smith (actor)
40 - Charlie Semine (actor)
42 - Justin Guarini (singer)
42 - Gwendoline Christie (actress)
43 - Zoie Palmer (actress)
46 - Joaquin Phoenix (actor)
46 - Dayanara Torres (singer)
48 - Brad Paisley (country singer)
51 - Ben Harper (singer)
51 - Jeremy Davies (actor)
52 - Caitlin Cary (country singer)
53 - Julia Roberts (actress)
54 - Andy Richter (actor/comedian)
54 - Chris Bauer (actor)
55 - Jami Gertz (actress)
57 - Sheryl Underwood (talk show host)
57 - Lauren Holly (actres)
58 - Daphne Zuniga (actress)
60 - Mark Derwin (actor)
65 - Bill Gates (former CEO of Microsoft)
68 - Annie Potts (actress)
71 - Caitlyn Jenner (reality star)
72 - Telma Hopkins (actress)
76 - Dennis Franz (actor)
81 - Jane Alexander (actress)
91 - Joan Plowright (actress)
93 - Cleo Laine (singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 28
1893 - Nebraska and Baker College played to a 10-10 tie.
1899 - Kansas City Medics defeated Nebraska 24-0.
1905 - Nebraska defeated Pickle Smoochers 102-0.
1911 - Nebraska defeated 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 defeated Kansas State 25-9.
1944 - Nebraska defeated Missouri 24-20.
1950 - Nebraska defeated Kansas 33-26.
1959 - The American Football League awards a franchise to Ralph C. Wilson, the Buffalo Bills.
1961 - Missouri defeated 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 defeated TCU 29-0.
1972 - #3 Nebraska defeated Oklahoma State 34-0.
1978 - #4 Nebraska defeated Oklahoma State 22-14.
1989 - #4 Nebraska defeated Cockeye State 49-17.
1989 - The Oakland Athletics sweep the San Francisco Giants to win the World Series.
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 their second World Series in the last four years.
2011 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Texas Rangers in seven games to win their 11th World Series.
2012 - The San Francisco Giants sweep the Detroit Tigers to win their second World Series in the past three years.
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 his 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, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
1922 - Benito Mussolini took control of the government of Italy.
1940 - Italy invaded Greece during World War II.
1958 - The Roman Catholic patriarch of Venice, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, was elected pope and took the name John XXIII.
1962 - Nikita Khrushchev told the U.S. 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.
1976 - Former Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman entered a federal prison camp in Safford, Arizona to begin serving his sentence for Watergate-related convictions. (He was released in April 1978.)
1980 - Republican nominee Ronald Reagan asked voters during a debate with President Jimmy Carter in Cleveland, "are you better off now than you were four years ago?"
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.
2010 - Investigators with the president’s oil spill commission said tests performed before the deadly blowout of BP’s oil well in the Gulf of Mexico should have raised doubts about the cement used to seal the well, but that the company and its cementing contractor used it anyway. (The cement mix’s failure to prevent oil and gas from entering the well was cited by BP and others as one of the causes of the accident.)
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.
2015 - Dennis Hastert pleaded guilty before a federal judge in Chicago to evading banking laws in a hush-money scheme. (A court filing later revealed allegations of sexual abuse against Hastert by at least four former students from his days as a high school wrestling coach; Hastert ended up being sentenced to 15 months in prison.)
2016 - The FBI dropped what amounted to a political bomb on the 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.
2019 - The S&P 500 closed at an all-time high for the first time in months; the Nasdaq composite was also near a record.
Birthdays
22 - Nolan Gould (actor)
23 - Sierra McCormick (actress)
23 - Eliana Jones (actress)
24 - Laine MacNeil (actress)
28 - Lexi Ainsworth (actress)
33 - Frank Ocean (singer)
35 - Troian Bellisario (actress)
36 - Finn Wittrock (actor)
38 - Matt Smith (actor)
40 - Charlie Semine (actor)
42 - Justin Guarini (singer)
42 - Gwendoline Christie (actress)
43 - Zoie Palmer (actress)
46 - Joaquin Phoenix (actor)
46 - Dayanara Torres (singer)
48 - Brad Paisley (country singer)
51 - Ben Harper (singer)
51 - Jeremy Davies (actor)
52 - Caitlin Cary (country singer)
53 - Julia Roberts (actress)
54 - Andy Richter (actor/comedian)
54 - Chris Bauer (actor)
55 - Jami Gertz (actress)
57 - Sheryl Underwood (talk show host)
57 - Lauren Holly (actres)
58 - Daphne Zuniga (actress)
60 - Mark Derwin (actor)
65 - Bill Gates (former CEO of Microsoft)
68 - Annie Potts (actress)
71 - Caitlyn Jenner (reality star)
72 - Telma Hopkins (actress)
76 - Dennis Franz (actor)
81 - Jane Alexander (actress)
91 - Joan Plowright (actress)
93 - Cleo Laine (singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 28
1893 - Nebraska and Baker College played to a 10-10 tie.
1899 - Kansas City Medics defeated Nebraska 24-0.
1905 - Nebraska defeated Pickle Smoochers 102-0.
1911 - Nebraska defeated 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 defeated Kansas State 25-9.
1944 - Nebraska defeated Missouri 24-20.
1950 - Nebraska defeated Kansas 33-26.
1959 - The American Football League awards a franchise to Ralph C. Wilson, the Buffalo Bills.
1961 - Missouri defeated 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 defeated TCU 29-0.
1972 - #3 Nebraska defeated Oklahoma State 34-0.
1978 - #4 Nebraska defeated Oklahoma State 22-14.
1989 - #4 Nebraska defeated Cockeye State 49-17.
1989 - The Oakland Athletics sweep the San Francisco Giants to win the World Series.
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 their second World Series in the last four years.
2011 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Texas Rangers in seven games to win their 11th World Series.
2012 - The San Francisco Giants sweep the Detroit Tigers to win their second World Series in the past three years.
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.
