Today in history
A look back on this day in history.
Women turn out in large numbers, some carrying placards reading "We want beer," for the anti-prohibition parade and demonstration in Newark, New Jersey, October 28, 1932.
More than 20,000 people took part in the mass demand for the repeal of the 18th Amendment.
Indian self-rule
Commissioner for Indian Affairs John S. Collier stands with the chiefs of the Flathead Indian Tribe as Secretary of Interior, Harold Ickes, seated, signs into law the Wheeler-Howard bill in Washington D.C., on October 28, 1935.
The bill provided for Indian self-rule rather than continuing under the direction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, restoring their management of land and mineral rights.
Mussolini in Rome
There were scenes of wild enthusiasm in Rome and throughout Italy on October 28, 1936, on the occasion of the celebration of the fourteenth anniversary of Italian fascism. A huge crowd thronged the piazza Di Venezia when Mussolini appeared on the balcony of his palace with three uniformed Nazis wearing Swastika armlets.
Laurel and Hardy
American actors Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy pose in front of a poster which announces their billing at the Lido night club in Paris, France on October 28, 1947.
Elvis gets polio vaccine
Elvis Presley receives a salk polio vaccine shot in New York City on October 28, 1956, before his appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show as part of support for the March of Dimes.
The polio vaccine was declared "safe, effective and potent" on April 12, 1955.
Giving the shot is Dr. Harold Fuerst of New York. Holding Presleys arm is Dr. Leona Baumgartner, commissioner of the New York City health department.
President John F. Kennedy
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy leaves the Saint Stephen Martyr Catholic Church after attending mass, on October 28, 1962 in Washington D.C., a few hours before Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev offers to remove soviet missiles from Cuba.
The Cuban Missile Crisis and its aftermath was the most serious U.S.-Soviet confrontation of the Cold War.
Salvador Dali
Spanish artist Salvador Dali attends the inauguration of his museum in Figueres, Spain, October 28, 1974.
Carter - Reagan debate
FILE - In this Oct. 28, 1980 file photo, President Jimmy Carter, left, and Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, shake hands in Cleveland, Ohio, before debating before a nationwide television audience, October 28, 1980.
Carter fumbled a presidential debate question about the Cold War, when he cited his 13-year-old daughter Amy on the subject of nuclear war. "I think, to close out this discussion, it would be better to put into perspective what we're talking about. I had a discussion with my daughter, Amy, the other day, before I came here, to ask her what the most important issue was. She said she thought nuclear weaponry, and the control of nuclear arms. This is a formidable force."
President Bill Clinton in Kuwait
President Bill Clinton is surrounded by U.S. soldiers, October 28, 1994, at Liberty Bridge in Kuwait, some 50 km from the Iraqi border. Clinton was on a brief stopover in Kuwait to visit troops stationed there following the massing of the Iraqi army near the Kuwaiti border during Operation Vigilant Warrior.
Clinton told the troops, "You got here in a very big hurry. And because of that, Iraq got the message in a very big hurry. It withdrew its forces that were massed near the Kuwaiti border."
Richard Jewel
Richard Jewell's attorney Lin Wood holds a copy of the Atlanta Journal during a press conference in Atlanta, Georgia October 28, 1996. Wood said Jewell plans to file suit against several media sources for defamation of character.
Jewell was identified by the media as the FBI's prime suspect in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta on July 30, 1996. He was initially hailed as a hero in the attack that killed one woman and injured 111 others. The Justice Department cleared him of involvement in October 1996.