A bit of October 28th history…
1492 - Christopher Columbus sights Cuba and claims it for Spain under the name “Juana”
1538 - The 1st university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomas de Aquino, is established on Hispaniola
1793 - Eli Whitney applies for a patent on the Cotton Gin
1886 - Statue of Liberty dedicated by US President Cleveland, celebrated by 1st confetti (ticker tape) parade in NYC
1904 - St Louis police try a new investigation method - fingerprints
1919 - Volstead Act passed by US Congress, establishing prohibition, despite President Wilson’s veto
1924 - “Taung Child” discovered in lime quarry in Taung, South Africa; paleoanthropologist Raymond Dart identifies the fossil as a new hominin species, Australopithecus Africanus (thought killed by eagle) (pictured)
1965 - Gateway Arch (630 ft high) completed in St Louis, Missouri
2015 - Research indicating Plague dates back to the Bronze Age in skeletons, 5,783 years old, published
A bit of October 28th history… 1492 - Christopher Columbus...
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