October 28<\/p>\n
306 \u2013 Maxentius is proclaimed Roman co-emperor, with Constantine, Severus, and Maximian in the West, and Galerius in the East.<\/p>\n
312 \u2013 Constantine defeats Maxentius at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge over the river Tiber to become the sole emperor of the Western Roman empire.<\/p>\n
969 \u2013 The Byzantine Empire retakes the city of Antioch from Hamdanid Arabs<\/p>\n
1344 \u2013 The army of the first Smyrniote crusade retakes the lower town of Smyrna from Ayd\u0131nid Turks.<\/p>\n
1492 \u2013 Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World.<\/p>\n
1520 \u2013 Ferdinand Magellan and his fleet finishes transiting the straight, later named after him, and reaches the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n
1636 \u2013 The Massachusetts Bay Colony votes to establish a theological college, later called Harvard University.<\/p>\n
1726 \u2013 Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels<\/em> is published.<\/p>\n 1776 \u2013 Following General Washington’s retreat from New York, British troops attack and capture Chatterton Hill at White Plains, New York from the Continental Army.<\/p>\n 1793 \u2013 Eliphalet Remington is born in Suffield, Connecticut.<\/p>\n 1886 \u2013 President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.<\/p>\n 1919 \u2013 Under authority of the 18th amendment, Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Wilson’s veto with Prohibition to begin the following January.<\/p>\n 1922 \u2013 Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.<\/p>\n 1929 \u2013 The New York Stock Exchange drops another 38.33 points (12.82%) continuing the economic crisis that started on the 24th.<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 The Alaska Highway reaches and connects Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada.<\/p>\n 1948 \u2013 Paul Hermann M\u00fcller is awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.<\/p>\n 1962 \u2013 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba, ending the Cuban Missile Crisis.<\/p>\n 2007 \u2013 Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez de Kirchner becomes the first directly elected female President of Argentina.<\/p>\n 2009 \u2013 NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X<\/em> test flight mission for its manned Constellation<\/em> program.<\/p>\n 2014 \u2013 A rocket carrying NASA’s Cygnus CRS Orb-3<\/em> resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops Island, Virginia.<\/p>\n 2018 – Jair Messias Bolsonaro is elected President of Brazil<\/p>\n 2022 \u2013 Musician Jerry Lee Lewis dies at his home in Nesbit, Mississippi, age 87.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 28 306 \u2013 Maxentius is proclaimed Roman co-emperor, with Constantine, Severus, and Maximian in the West, and Galerius in the East. 312 \u2013 Constantine defeats Maxentius at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge over the river Tiber to become the sole emperor of the Western Roman empire. 969 \u2013 The Byzantine Empire retakes the … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61157"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97218,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61157\/revisions\/97218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}