On Oct. 28, 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba on...

October 28, 1988

On Oct. 28, 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba on his first voyage to the New World.

In 1636 Harvard College was founded in Cambridge, Mass.

In 1776 the Battle of White Plains was fought during the Revolutionary War.

In 1886 the Statue of Liberty was unveiled in New York City harbor.

In 1893 Mayor Carter Harrison Sr. of Chicago was killed in his home by Patrick Prendergast, a disappointed office seeker. Prendergast was hanged for the crime.

In 1918 the Czechoslovak National Committee in Prague proclaimed the establishment of the Republic of Czechoslovakia and the independence of the new nation from Hapsburg rule.

In 1919 Congress overrode President Woodrow Wilson`s veto and enacted the Volstead Prohibition Act.

In 1940 Italy invaded Greece in World War II.

In 1962 the Cuban missile crisis eased as the Soviet Union said it would pull its nuclear missiles out of Cuba.

In 1974 Arab leaders recognized the Palestine Liberation Organization as the sole representative of the Palestinian people.

In 1985 John Walker, leader of the Walker family spy ring, pleaded guilty to charges of betraying U.S. Navy secrets to the Soviet Union.