Shimla, Oct, 28 Keekli Bureau

This Day in History

2007

Argentine lawyer and politician Cristina Fernández de Kirchner became the first woman elected president of Argentina.

1971

Great Britain launched Prospero, its first Earth satellite.

1967

American actress 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.

1965

The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, designed by Finnish-born American architect Eero Saarinen to commemorate St. Louis’s historic role as “Gateway to the West,” was completed.

1962

Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev capitulated to U.S. demands to halt delivery of nuclear-armed missiles to Cuba, bringing to an end the Cuban missile crisis.

1955

American computer programmer and entrepreneur Bill Gates—who cofounded Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company—was born.

1919

The U.S. Congress overrode President Woodrow Wilson’s veto and passed the Volstead Act, providing enforcement guidelines for Prohibition.

1918

Tomáš Masaryk, Edvard Beneš, and other leaders issued a proclamation announcing the formation of an independent Czechoslovakian state.

1914

American physician and medical researcher Jonas Salk, who developed the first safe and effective vaccine for polio, was born.

1790

Spain, yielding to British demands, signed the convention that resolved the Nootka Sound controversy.

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.

1636

Harvard University, the oldest institute of higher learning in the United States, was founded by the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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