On This Day in History October 28, 2022

Historical Events 1492  Christopher Columbus sights Cuba and claims it for Spain under the name "Juana" 1538  The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established on Hispaniola 1746  Peruvian cities of Lima and Callao demolished by earthquake, 18,000 die 1904  St Louis police try a new investigation method - fingerprints 1919  Volstead Act passed by US Congress, establishing prohibition, despite President Woodrow Wilson's veto 1924  Miner M.de Bruin discovers the infant fossil skull, "Taung child" in a lime quarry in Taung, South Africa. Paleoanthropologist Raymond Dart identifies the fossil as a new hominin species, Australopithecus africanus. More Historical Events Famous Birthdays Bill Gates 67th Birthday Joaquin Phoenix 48th Birthday Jonas Salk 1914 - 1995 Julia Roberts 55th Birthday More Famous Birthdays Famous Deaths John Locke 1632 - 1704 Trevor Berbick 1954 - 2006 More Famous Deaths October 28: Faraday, the Blacksmith's Boy Who Changed the World On this day, Michael Faraday, known to science as the Father of Electricity, demonstrated his dynamo invention. It was to have huge, far-reaching consequences. Read the Article