Hankering For History: Events that happened today in history, October 28th!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on October 28th!

312	Constantine the Great defeats Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius at the Mulvian Bridge.
969	After a prolonged siege, the Byzantines end 300 years of Arab rule in Antioch.
1216	Henry III of England is crowned.
1628	After a fifteen-month siege, the Huguenot town of La Rochelle surrenders to royal forces.
1636	Harvard College, the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, is founded in Cambridge, Mass.
1768	Germans and Acadians join French Creoles in their armed revolt against the Spanish governor of New Orleans.
1793	Eli Whitney applied for a patent for the cotton gin.
1863	In a rare night attack, Confederates under Gen. James Longstreet attack a Federal force near Chattanooga, Tennessee, hoping to cut their supply line, the “cracker line.” They fail.
1886	The Statue of Liberty, originally named Liberty Enlightening the World, is dedicated at Liberty Island, N. Y., formerly Bedloe’s Island, by President Grover Cleveland
1901	Race riots sparked by Booker T. Washington’s visit to the White House kill 34.
1904	The St. Louis police try a new investigation method: fingerprints.
1914	The German cruiser Emden, disguised as a British ship, steams into Penang Harbor near Malaya and sinks the Russian light cruiser Zhemchug.
1914	George Eastman announces the invention of the color photographic process.
1919	Congress enacted the Volstead Act, which provided for enforcement of Prohibition, over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto.
1922	Fascism came to Italy as Benito Mussolini took control of the government.
1927	Pan American Airways launches the first scheduled international flight.
1940	Italy invades Greece, launching six divisions on four fronts from occupied Albania.
1944	The first B-29 Superfortress bomber mission flies from the airfields in the Mariana Islands in a strike against the Japanese base at Truk.
1958	The Roman Catholic patriarch of Venice, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, was elected pope, taking the name John XXIII.
1960	In a note to the OAS (Organization of American States), the United States charges that Cuba has been receiving substantial quantities of arms and numbers of military technicians” from the Soviet bloc.
1962	Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev informed the United States that he had ordered the dismantling of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
1965	Pope Paul VI issued a decree absolving Jews of collective guilt for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
1980	Republican nominee Ronald Reagan asked voters during a debate with President Jimmy Carter in Cleveland “are you better off than you were four years ago?”
2005	Vice President Dick Cheney’s top adviser, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, resigned after he was indicted on charges of obstruction of justice, perjury and making false statements in the CIA leak investigation. (Libby was convicted and sentenced to 30 months in prison. President George W. Bush commuted his sentence.)
2006	Hall of Fame basketball coach Red Auerbach died at age 89.
2007	Cristina Fernandez was elected Argentina’s first woman president.
2009	Angela Merkel was sworn in for a second term as German chancellor.

Today’s historical facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.