October 28

Today in History
• 1420 - Beijing is declared the capital of the Ming dynasty under the Yongle Emperor
• 1636 - Harvard University, Cambridge, founded by a vote of the Massachusetts General Court
• 1646 - First Protestant church assembly for American Indians established in Massachusetts
• 1746 - Peruvian cities of Lima and Callao demolished by earthquake, 18,000 die
• 1790 - New York gives up claims to Vermont for $30,000
• 1793 - Eli Whitney applies for a patent on cotton gin
• 1831 - Michael Faraday demonstrates his dynamo invention, an electrical generator
• 1858 - R. H. Macy and Co opens 1st store, (6th Ave-NYC) Gross receipts $11.06


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Czech Founding Day
• Lao: End of Buddhist Lent Day
• Myanmar Full Moon of Thadingyut
• National Caroline Day
• National Immigrants Day
• Ohi Day
• Valmiki Jayanti
• Vap Full Moon Poya

Birthdays
• 1017 - Henry III, Holy Roman emperor (1046-56)
• 1673 - Dimitrie Cantemir, Romanians historian/monarch of Moldova, 1710-11
• 1759 - Georges Danton, France, revolutionary leader/Minister of Justice
• 1793 - Eliphalet Remington, American firearms manufacturer (Remington Arms Co., L.L.C.)
• 1800 - Helmuth K B von Moltke, Prussian general-Field Marshal
• 1842 - Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, American Quaker orator, abolitionist, women's rights advocate
• 1879 - Channing H. Cox, American politician (49th Governor of Massachusetts)
• 1914 - Jonas Salk, American medical researcher and virologist who created the Polio vaccine