The Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France to the United States is dedicated in New York Harbor.

1922Fascism comes to Italy as Benito Mussolini takes control of the government in the capital Rome.

1962The Cuban Missile crisis ends as Cold War superpowers step back from the brink of nuclear war. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev informs the United States that he has ordered the dismantling of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. In return President John F. Kennedy promises that the US won’t invade Cuba.

1955“We’re at the beginning of what the computer can do to change our lives. The best is yet to come.”

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, ranked by Forbes Magazine as the world’s richest man, is born in Seattle.

And 1967“Don’t forget, I’m also just a girl standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.”

Actress Julia Roberts, star of movies including Pretty Woman and Erin Brockovich is born in Smyrna, Georgia.

Today in History, October 28th, Tim Maguire, the Associate Press.