HISTORY At A Glance

TODAY is Wednesday, October 28, the 302nd day of 2020. There are 64 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date:

1922 March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government. 1929 Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval. 1958 John XXIII is elected Pope.

1962 End of Cuban missile crisis: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba. 1990 The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic holds the first multiparty legislature election in the country’s history.

1995 289 people died and 270 were injured when a crowded underground railway train caught fire in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku.

1998 An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan.

2002 Senior U.S. diplomat Lawrence Foley was assassinated in Jordan, the first western diplomat to be killed there. 2006 A group of ferocious activists of Bangladesh Awami League attacked one of their rival political party meeting in Dhaka with oars and sculls and killed their 14 activists.

2007 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first woman elected President of Argentina.

2009 NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program.