Today in History: October 28, Statue of Liberty dedicated in New York

Currently is Tuesday Oct the st day of There are days left in the year The present day in history On Oct the Statue of Liberty a gift from the people of France was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland Also on this date In the General Court of Massachusetts passed a legislative act establishing Harvard College Related Articles Survey finds inflation slower hiring undermining worker confidence Foreclosures are up Here s why experts aren t worried Economists are realizing the job sphere is cooling Workers have known it for months Suspect in Charlie Kirk killing can wear street clothes in court amid extraordinary attention Judge seeks assurances that Abrego Garcia won t be deported to Liberia in violation of court order In Rowland Hussey Macy opened his first New York store at Sixth Avenue and th Street in Manhattan In Congress passed the Volstead Act which provided the means for enforcement of a Prohibition era ban on alcohol over President Woodrow Wilson s veto In President Franklin D Roosevelt rededicated the Statue of Liberty on its th anniversary In Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev informed the United States that he had ordered the dismantling of missile bases in Cuba in return the U S secretly agreed to remove nuclear missiles from U S installations in Turkey as the two superpowers defused tensions of the Cuban missile emergency In what became known as The Perfect Storm began forming hundreds of miles east of Nova Scotia lost at sea during the storm were the six crew members of the Andrea Gail a fishing boat from Gloucester Massachusetts In the families of people killed in the Sept terrorist attack in New York gathered at ground zero in lower Manhattan for a memorial amenity filled with prayer and song In the San Francisco Giants won their second World Series title in three years beating the Detroit Tigers to complete a four-game sweep In The Boston Red Sox beat the Los Angeles Dodgers to win the World Series in five games In Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg commented his company was rebranding itself as Meta an effort to encompass its virtual-reality vision for the future while keeping the Facebook name for the social structure itself In Tesla CEO Elon Musk took control of Twitter for billion after a protracted legal battle and months of uncertainty He subsequently rebranded the social media platform as X in In Paul Pelosi the -year-old husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was severely beaten by a hammer-wielding assailant who broke into their San Francisco home Less than three weeks later Nancy Pelosi revealed she would remain in the House but step down as speaker in the next Congress In the Pentagon disclosed that North Korea had sent about troops to Russia to train and likely fight against Ukraine a move seen as piling more pressure on Ukraine s overstretched army and stoking geopolitical tensions in the Indo-Pacific region Currently s Birthdays Basketball Hall of Famer Lenny Wilkens is Actor Jane Alexander is Actor Dennis Franz is Actor-singer Telma Hopkins is TV personality and Olympic gold medal decathlete Caitlyn Jenner is Actor Annie Potts is Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is Actor Daphne Zuniga ZOO -nih-guh is Actor Lauren Holly is Talk show host-comedian Sheryl Underwood is Football Hall of Famer Steve Atwater is Actor-comedian Andy Richter is Actor Julia Roberts is Singer Ben Harper is Football Hall of Famer Terrell Davis is Country singer Brad Paisley is Actor Joaquin Phoenix is Actor Gwendoline Christie is Actor Matt Smith is Actor Troian Bellisario is Singer-songwriter Frank Ocean is Tennis athlete Taylor Fritz is Actor Nolan Gould is