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On This Day In History for October 28, 2020
This is the 302nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 64 days remaining in 2020.
- It was on this date in 1492, that Christopher Columbus landed in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World.
- It was 384 years ago today, that The Massachusetts Bay Colony voted to establish a theological college, which would later become Harvard University.
- 294 years ago today, The novel Gulliver’s Travels was published.
- Also on October 28, 1886, President Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty.
- On October 28, 1942, The Alaska Highway first connected Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada.
- It was on this date in 1948, that Paul Müller was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
- That same date in 1956, Elvis Presley received a polio vaccination on national TV.
- On October 28, 1971, Prospero became the only British satellite to be launched by a British rocket.
- It was on this date in 2009, that NASA successfully launched the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its short-lived Constellation program.
- Also today in 2014, A rocket carrying NASA’s Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station exploded seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
- French mathematician and engineer, Antoine Deparcieux, born on this date in 1703.
- Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian priest, mathematician, astronomer, and explorer was born on that same date in 1718.
- Born October 28, 1793, American businessman, founded Remington Arms, Eliphalet Remington.
- Belgian mathematician and theorist, Pierre François Verhulst was born 216 years ago today.
- Wilhelm Anderson, the Belarusian-Estonian astrophysicist and astronomer was born 140 years ago today.
- Born October 28, 1905, Dutch mathematician Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest.
- Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician was born on that same date in 1914.
- Also born on that same date in 1955, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Microsoft, Bill Gates.
- American computer scientist and mathematician, Landon Curt Noll, born on this date in 1960.
- Also turning 53 today is American video game designer, co-founded Id Software John Romero.
- American computer scientist, Jawed Karim is 41 today.
Listener Birthdays
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- 1 – Amber Elstad
- 2 – Mark McCoy
- 3 – Ken Pace
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for October 28, 2020
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- NASA collected asteroid dust, but it’s leaking on its return journey
- Now is the time to treat the internet as a utility – Los Angeles Times
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