Shimla, Oct, 28 Keekli Bureau
2007
Argentine lawyer and politician Cristina Fernández de Kirchner became the first woman elected president of Argentina.
1971
Great Britain launched Prospero, its first Earth satellite.
1967
American actress Julia Roberts, whose deft performances in varied roles helped make her one of the highest-paid and most-influential actresses in the 1990s and early 2000s, was born.
1965
The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, designed by Finnish-born American architect Eero Saarinen to commemorate St. Louis’s historic role as “Gateway to the West,” was completed.
1962
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev capitulated to U.S. demands to halt delivery of nuclear-armed missiles to Cuba, bringing to an end the Cuban missile crisis.
1955
American computer programmer and entrepreneur Bill Gates—who cofounded Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company—was born.
1919
The U.S. Congress overrode President Woodrow Wilson’s veto and passed the Volstead Act, providing enforcement guidelines for Prohibition.
1918
Tomáš Masaryk, Edvard Beneš, and other leaders issued a proclamation announcing the formation of an independent Czechoslovakian state.
1914
American physician and medical researcher Jonas Salk, who developed the first safe and effective vaccine for polio, was born.
1790
Spain, yielding to British demands, signed the convention that resolved the Nootka Sound controversy.
1726
Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift anonymously published Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World (later called Gulliver’s Travels), a keystone of English literature that helped give birth to the novel form.
1636
Harvard University, the oldest institute of higher learning in the United States, was founded by the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
