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Today in History: October 28

1768 Germans and Acadians join French Creoles in their armed revolt against the Spanish governor of New Orleans.

1904 The St. Louis police try a new investigation method: fingerprints.

1914 George Eastman announces the invention of the color photographic process.

1914 The German cruiser Emden, disguised as a British ship, steams into Penang Harbor near Malaya and sinks the Russian light cruiser Zhemchug.

1919 Over President Wilson's veto, Congress passes the National Prohibition Act, or Volstead Act, named after its promoter, Congressman Andrew J. Volstead. It provides enforcement guidelines for the Prohibition Amendment.

1940 Italy invades Greece, launching six divisions on four fronts from occupied Albania.

1944 The first B-29 Superfortress bomber mission flies from the airfields in the Mariana Islands in a strike against the Japanese base at Truk.

1965 Construction completed on St. Louis Arch; at 630 feet (192m), it is the world's tallest arch.

2005 Libby "Scooter" Lewis, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, resigns after being indicted for "outing" CIA agent Valerie Plame.


Born on October 28

1914 Jonas Salk, U.S. scientist who developed the first vaccine against polio.

1936 Charlie Daniels, country / Southern rock singer, songwriter, musician ("The Devil Went Down to Georgia").

1949 Bruce Jenner, athlete, actor; won gold medal in the Decathlon at the Summer Olympics in Montreal (1976).

1967 Julia Roberts, actress (Pretty Woman, Steel Magnolias; won Academy Award for Best Actress in Erin Brockovich).

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Why is the KKK against triathlons?


They don't believe in the mixing of races.