Okay, I wasn’t going to do another one so soon, but there are some interesting birthdays and events that occurred on 28 October.

Birthdays: St. Francis Borgia (1510), Eliphalet Remington (1793), Howard Hanson (1896), Elsa Lanchester (1902), Evelyn Waugh (1903), Jonas Salk (developed vaccine for polio) (1914), Charlie Daniels (1937), Jane Alexander (1939), Dennis Franz (1944), Bruce Jenner (1949), Bill Gates (1955), Eros Ramazzotti (1963), Lauren Holly (1963), Julia Roberts (1967), Terrell Davis (1972), Joaquin Phoenix (1974).

Events:
1492 - Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba
1704 - John Locke dies
1868 - Thomas Edison applies for his first patent (the electric vote recorder)
1886 - President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty
1919 - Prohibition begins (Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto)
1922 - Mussolini marches on Rome and takes over Italian government
1950 - The Jack Benny Show premieres
1958 - Pope John XXIII elected
1962 - Cuban Missle Crisis ends
1965 - The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is completed
1970 - Land speed record set by Gary Gabelich
1996 - Morey Amsterdam dies

Today is also National Chocolate Day, Bring Your Jack-O-Lantern To Work Day, Wild Foods Day, and National Make A Difference Day. So if you didn’t get a chance to bring your Jack-O-Lantern to work with you today, be sure to eat some wild foods!

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