Oct 28
2000
Castro and Chávez play ball
On this day in 2000, Cuban leader Fidel Castro and Venezuelan Pres. Hugo Chávez brought their shared love of baseball to the field in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. The friendly exhibition game took place during Castro’s five-day visit to Venezuela, aimed at strengthening diplomatic and economic relations between the two countries. The final score was 17–6. And the winner was…
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On this day in 1886 U.S. President Grover Cleveland officially dedicated the Statue of Liberty—a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States—on Bedloe’s (later Liberty) Island in Upper New York Bay.
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John Locke, an initiator of the Enlightenment and founder of British empiricism whose ideas inspired liberalism and influenced the American and French revolutions and the U.S. Constitution, died this day in 1704.
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2025
Hurricane Melissa made landfall in southern Jamaica with winds of 185 miles (about 298 km) per hour, It was the first category 5 storm to strike Jamaica.
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2023
American actor Matthew Perry, who played Chandler Bing on the hugely popular sitcom Friends, died at age 54 of “acute effects of ketamine,” according to a medical examiner’s report.
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2007
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner became the first woman elected president of Argentina. [Test your knowledge of famous firsts for women.]
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1967
Julia Roberts, whose deft performances in varied roles helped make her one of the highest-paid and most-influential actresses in the 1990s and early 2000s, was born in Smyrna, Georgia. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about A-list actors.]
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1955
Computer programmer and entrepreneur Bill Gates—who cofounded Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company—was born in Seattle, Washington.
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1918
Tomáš Masaryk, Edvard Beneš, and other leaders issued a proclamation announcing the formation of an independent Czechoslovakian state. [Test your knowledge of European history.]
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1914
American physician and medical researcher Jonas Salk, who developed the first safe and effective vaccine for polio, was born. [Take our quiz about human health.]
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1834
A group of European settlers, led by the governor of Western Australia, attacked a Bindjareb Noongar camp, killing anywhere between 11 and 80 people. The incident, known as the Pinjarra Massacre, was the culmination of increasing tensions between Australian Aboriginal peoples and settlers during the colony’s early years.
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1790
Spain, yielding to British demands, signed the convention that resolved the Nootka Sound controversy.
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1726
Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift anonymously published Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World (later called Gulliver’s Travels), a keystone of English literature that helped give birth to the novel form. [Take our quiz about literary classics.]
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