It happened on this day, October 28
Events:
1886 – Inauguration of the Statue of Liberty in the United States.
1924 – Saad Zaghloul forms the first popular ministry in Egypt after elections in which his supporters win most seats in Parliament.
1962 – The Soviet Union announces on Moscow radio that its government has decided to dismantle the nuclear missiles installed in Cuba and return them to Soviet territory.
🌟 Algeria regains its sovereignty on national television.
1973 – A ceasefire in Vietnam goes into effect at 8 a.m. Saigon time, ending that country's long war.
1974 – The eighth Arab summit held in Rabat decides to consider the Palestine Liberation Organization as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian Arab people.
1985 – Mikhail Gorbachev becomes general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
1996 – The Kuwaiti football team wins the thirteenth Gulf Cup, organized in the Sultanate of Oman.
2006 – A mass grave is discovered near kyiv containing thousands of bodies of victims of massacres committed by the Bolsheviks in 1930.
2007 – Cristina Fernandez is elected president of Argentina, succeeding her husband, Nestor Kirchner. She is thus the first woman elected to the presidency of Argentina.
2017 – The Washington Post publishes several documents revealed by the United States National Archives, which claim that the U.S. government attempted to assassinate former Cuban President Fidel Castro through various means and that President John F. Kennedy foiled the assassination attempt. 'one of these attempts.
2018 – Jair Bolsonaro is elected the new president of Brazil after winning 55% of the vote.
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Births:
1466 – Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch philosopher.
1898 – Muhammad Abdel Khaleq Hassouna, secretary general of the League of Arab States.
1909 – Ezz El-Din Zulfikar, Egyptian director.
1914 – Mamoun El-Shenawy, Egyptian lyric poet.
** Jonas Salk, American doctor and discoverer of the polio vaccine.
**Richard Synge, British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1952.
1928 – Sheikh Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, Sheikh of Al-Azhar Mosque.
1930 – Svatoplok Ploskal, Czechoslovak footballer.
1933 – Garincha, Brazilian footballer.
1942 – Laith Shubailat, Jordanian politician.
1955 – Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft.
** Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo.
1956 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
1972 – Jassim Al-Huwaidi, Kuwaiti footballer.
1978 – Almas Dweik, Lebanese short story writer, poet and feminist activist.
1979 – Jawed Karim, American programmer and one of the founders of YouTube.
1980 – Alan Smith, English footballer.
1986 – Aditi Rao Hydari, Indian actress.
1990 – Youssef Msakni, Tunisian footballer.
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Death:
1703 – John Wallis, English mathematician.
1704 – John Locke, English philosopher.
1740 – Empress Anna Ivanovna, Empress of the Russian Empire.
1929 – Bernart von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany.
1973 – Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer, critic and minister, nicknamed the “dean of Arab literature”.
2005 – Richard Smalley, American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996.
2008 – Ali Al-Mufidi, Kuwaiti actor.
2016 – Melhem Barakat, Lebanese singer and composer.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Independence Day in the Czech Republic.
⏪ Anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia, in Slovakia.
