On this day, Oct. 28

1889 The Union Trust Co. of Pittsburgh was established in the Oil Exchange Building.

1914 Medical researcher Jonas Salk, who developed the first successful polio vaccine while in Pittsburgh, was born in New York.

1931 The Edgar Thomson works in Braddock prepared to reopen; plans were announced to re-employ about 7,000 at Homestead and Braddock.

1976 Assistant District Attorney Jo Ann D’Arrigo was dismissed from the courtroom by Judge Nicholas Papadakos, who refused to hear her because she was dressed in a pantsuit.

1996 Richard Jewell, cleared of committing the Centennial 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 had depicted him as the bomber, who turned out to be Eric Rudolph.

2020 Miles Taylor, a former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, revealed 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.”

Some items are from Stefan Lorant’s “Pittsburgh: The Story of an American City” (digital.library.pitt.edu/chronology).

— Compiled by Rick Nowlin

Today’s birthdays: Jazz singer Cleo Laine, 94. Actor Joan Plowright, 92. Actor Jane Alexander, 82. Actor Dennis Franz, 77. Actor Telma Hopkins, 73. Media personality and former Olympic athlete Caitlyn Jenner, 72. Actor Annie Potts, 69. Songwriter/producer Desmond Child, 68. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, 66. The former president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 65. Rock musician Stephen Morris (New Order), 64. Actor Mark Derwin, 61. Actor Daphne Zuniga, 59. Actor Lauren Holly, 58. Talk show host-comedian-actor Sheryl Underwood, 58. Actor Jami Gertz, 56. Actor Chris Bauer, 55. Actor-comedian Andy Richter, 55. Actor Julia Roberts, 54. Country singer-musician Caitlin Cary, 53. Actor Jeremy Davies, 52. Singer Ben Harper, 52. Country singer Brad Paisley, 49. Actor Joaquin Phoenix, 47. Actor Gwendoline Christie, 43. Singer Justin Guarini (TV: “American Idol”), 43. Pop singer Brett Dennen, 42. Actor Charlie Semine, 41. Actor Matt Smith, 39. Actor Finn Wittrock, 37. Actor Troian Bellisario, 36.

Thought for today: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

— George Orwell (Eric Blair), English author (1903-1950)