October 28 - Cooperation

Cooperation

This Day In History

1061

Empress Agnes, acting as regent for her son, brings about the election of bishop Cadalus, the antipope Honorius II.

1538

The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.

1636

A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.

1886

In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.

1893

Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique, receives its première performance in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composer's death.

1915

Richard Strauss conducts the first performance of his tone poem Eine Alpensinfonie in Berlin.

1942

The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.

1958

John XXIII is elected Pope.

1971

Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket.

2009

NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program.

Famous Birthdays

1697

Canaletto, Italian artist (d. 1768)

1793

Eliphalet Remington, American firearms manufacturer (d. 1861)

1846

Georges Auguste Escoffier, French chef (d. 1935)

1875

Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, American geographer and editor (d. 1966)

1891

Ormer Locklear, American movie stunt pilot (d. 1920)

1897

Edith Head, American costume designer (d. 1981)

1903

Evelyn Waugh, English writer (d. 1966)

1909

Francis Bacon, Irish painter (d. 1992)

1914

Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (d. 1995)

1925

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (d. 2006)

1936

Charlie Daniels, American musician

1955

Bill Gates, American software executive
1957
Stephen Morris, British musician (Joy Division and New Order)
1963
Lauren Holly, American actress
1967
Julia Roberts, American actress
John Romero, American video game designer
1972
Brad Paisley, American musician
1982
Matt Smith, English actor