October 28 - This day in history

[alyn]

October 28, 1492 Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba and claims it for Spain.

[khj]

Love the engraving on the stamp. Simple design, simple scene, but elegantly done!

Thanks for making the stamp pic BIG!!!

[troutdude]

Dr. Jonas Edward Salk, the American medical researcher who developed the first vaccine against polio, was born on October 28, 1914.


Oct. 28, 1886: Statue of Liberty was dedicated by US President Grover Cleveland, celebrated by first ticker tape parade in New York City.



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[youpiao]

Oct 28, 312: Constantine the Great defeats Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius at the Mulvian Bridge.

Yugoslavia, Scott Nr 1074 (1971)

[youpiao]

Oct 28, 1886: Statue of Liberty dedicated on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island).

USA, Scott Nr 566 (1922)

[youpiao]

Oct 28, 1962: Nikita Blinks: Khrushchev announces Soviet missiles will be removed from Cuba.

Central African Republic (2017)

[youpiao]

Oct 28, 1915 First performance of Richard Strauss' “Alpine Symphony,” with Strauss conducting the orchestra of the Dresden Hofkapelle in Berlin.

Austria, Scott Nr 1463 (1989), Germany, Scott Nr 9N111 (1954)