TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS SUNDAY, OCT. 28, the 301st day of 2018. There are 64 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY:
On this date in 1962, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev informed the United States that he had ordered the dismantling of missile bases in Cuba; in return, the U.S. secretly agreed to remove nuclear missiles from U.S. installations in Turkey.
In 1726, the original edition of “Gulliver’s Travels,” a satirical novel by Jonathan Swift, was first published in London.
In 1858, Rowland Hussey Macy opened his first New York store at Sixth Avenue and 14th Street in Manhattan.
In 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland.
In 1922, fascism came to Italy after Benito Mussolini took control of the government.
In 1940, Italy invaded Greece during World War II.
In 1958, the Roman Catholic patriarch of Venice, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, was elected Pope; he took the name John XXIII.
In 1965, Pope Paul VI issued a Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions, which, among other things, absolved Jews of collective guilt for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. In 1976, former aide to President Nixon John D. Ehrlichman entered a federal prison camp in Safford, Ariz., to begin serving his sentence for Watergate-related convictions. He was released in April 1978.
In 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, Mass.
In 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.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Jazz singer Cleo Laine is 91. Actress Joan Plowright is 89. Musician-songwriter Charlie Daniels is
82. Actor Dennis Franz is 74. Pop singer Wayne Fontana is 73. Actress Telma Hopkins is 70. Olympic track and field gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner is 69. Actress Annie Potts is 66. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is 63. Actress Lauren Holly and talk show host-comedian-actress Sheryl Underwood are 55. Actress Jami Gertz is
53. Actor Chris Bauer and actor-comedian Andy Richter are 52. Actress Julia Roberts is 51. Actor Jeremy Davies and singer Ben Harper are 49. Country singer Brad Paisley is 46. Actor Joaquin Phoenix is
44. Pop singer Brett Dennen and rock musician Dave Tirio (Plain White T’s) are
39. Actor Charlie Semine is 38. Actor Matt Smith is 36. Actor Finn Wittrock is 34. Actor Nolan Gould is 20.