"In 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicated the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary. In 1962, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev informed the United States that he had ordered the dismantling of missile bases in Cuba; in return, the U.S. secretly agreed to remove nuclear missiles from U.S. installations in Turkey as the two superpowers defused tensions of the Cuban missile crisis."
"On Oct. 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland. Also on this date: In 1636, the General Court of Massachusetts passed a legislative act establishing Harvard College. In 1858, Rowland Hussey Macy opened his first New York store at Sixth Avenue and 14th Street in Manhattan."
"In 1991, what became known as The Perfect Storm began forming hundreds of miles east of Nova Scotia; lost at sea during the storm were the six crew members of the Andrea Gail, a fishing boat from Gloucester, Massachusetts. In 2001, the families of people killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in New York gathered at ground zero in lower Manhattan for a memorial service filled with prayer and song."
October 28 features the 1886 dedication of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. The date also marks Harvard’s 1636 founding and Macy’s first New York store in 1858. Congress passed the Volstead Act in 1919 to enforce Prohibition; President Roosevelt rededicated the Statue of Liberty in 1936. In 1962, Khrushchev ordered dismantling of Soviet missile bases in Cuba while the U.S. secretly agreed to remove missiles from Turkey. Later events include the 1991 Perfect Storm that sank the Andrea Gail, a 2001 ground-zero memorial, World Series wins in 2012 and 2018, Facebook’s 2021 rebrand to Meta, and Elon Musk’s 2022 acquisition of Twitter.
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