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Events on October 28

• 1492 Christopher Columbus reaches the island of Cuba on his first voyage.
• 1636 Harvard University is founded in Cambridge. It owes its name to its first benefactor, John Harvard.
• 1886 The 92-meter-high Statue of Liberty in New York, a gift from France, is dedicated by U.S. President Stephen Grover Cleveland.
• 1908 An interview with Kaiser Wilhelm II by the Daily Telegraph sparks the Daily Telegraph affair.
• 1954 Ernest Hemingway is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1958 On the fourth day of the conclave, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli is elected pope as the successor to the late Pius XII and takes the name John XXIII.
• 1960 In Bonn, member of the Bundestag Alfred Frenzel is arrested. There is suspicion of espionage on behalf of Czechoslovakia.
• 1962 With Khrushchev's backdown, the Cuban Missile Crisis ends. The missile installations stationed in Cuba are subsequently dismantled.
• 1981 The heavy metal band Metallica is founded.
• 1992 Loriot's Ring in One Evening is premiered with the resources of the Mannheim National Theatre.
• 2023 South Africa wins the final of the Rugby Union World Championship in Paris 12:11 against New Zealand.
• 2025 The experimental aircraft Lockheed Martin X-59 successfully completes its first flight.

Born on October 28

• 1860 Hugo Preuß, German constitutional law scholar and politician
• 1893 Karl Farkas, Austrian actor and director, writer and cabaret artist
• 1903 Evelyn Waugh, British writer
• 1914 Jonas Edward Salk, American bacteriologist
• 1930 Bernie Ecclestone, British motor racing official and entrepreneur
• 1943 Cornelia Froboess, German actress and singer
• 1950 Annette Humpe, German musician
• 1963 Eros Ramazzotti, Italian pop singer
• 1973 Martin Klempnow, German actor and voice actor
• 1982 Matt Smith, British stage and television actor

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „28. Oktober“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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