1492 Christopher Columbus sights Cuba and claims it for Spain under the name "Juana".
1640 English King Charles I signs a peace treaty with the Scottish Covenanters, ending the Second Bishops' War.
1664 The Corps of Her Majesty's Royal Marines, commonly referred to as the Royal Marines, was established. It was originally known as The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot.
1793 Eli Whitney applies for a patent for his cotton gin machine, used to pull cotton fibers from the seed.
1886 The Statue of Liberty is dedicated by President Grover Cleveland and is celebrated with the first confetti (ticker tape) parade in New York City.
Cardiff was awarded city status on 28th October 1905 in recognition of its great economic and industrial success..
1919 The Volstead Act is passed by Congress, establishing a nationwide ban on alcohol, despite President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
1949 The glove puppet Sooty, with Harry Corbett, made his first appearance on BBC TV.
2006 Funeral service for the peace of the executed at Bykivnia forest, outside of Kyiv, Ukraine, with reburial of 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in the 1930s and early 1940s.
2014 Tesco's Aberystwyth store made a blunder on a Welsh sign which was supposed to advertise 'free money' from the supermarket's cashpoint. The sign read "codiad am ddim", meaning free erections when it should read "arian am ddim" which means free money.
1957: The Los Angeles Vice Squad films Elvis Presley's entire concert at the Pan Pacific Auditorium in Los Angeles to study his performance following a local police ban on the singer 'wiggling' his hips in a suggestive manner.
28 Oct 1962 The Beatles played at the Empire in Liverpool, their first gig at Liverpool's top theatre. Eight acts were on the bill including Little Richard, Craig Douglas, Jet Harris and Kenny Lynch & Sounds Incorporated.
28 Oct 1961 Raymond Jones went into Liverpool's NEMS Record store trying to buy The Beatles records that had been released in Germany. Shop manager Brian Epstein promised to investigate further.
