Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 28

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  Statue of Constantine the Great
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  Flight spare of Prospero
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  Tutankhamun's mask
• Statue of Liberty
  Statue of Liberty
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  Battle of the Milvian Bridge
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  Forbidden City in Beijing
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  Gateway Arch
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  Ladislaus the Posthumous

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Feast day of Simon the Zealot	unreferenced section
Ohi Day in Greece (1940)	refimprove
1420 – Beijing was officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty in the same year that the Forbidden City, the seat of government, was completed.	unreferenced section
1835 – A confederation of Māori chiefs known as the United Tribes of New Zealand signed the Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand.	contradictory between United Tribes and Declaration articles
1891 – The Mino–Owari earthquake, the strongest known inland earthquake in Japan's history, caused widespread damage and 7,273 deaths.	Date not cited in article.
1893 – In Saint Petersburg, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky led the first performance of his Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Pathétique, nine days before his death.	refimprove section
1915 – Richard Strauss conducted the first performance of his tone poem An Alpine Symphony in Berlin.	refimprove section
1918 – The Czechoslovak provisional government declared the country's independence from Austria-Hungary, forming the First Czechoslovak Republic in Prague.	Too much uncited
1922 – The fascist Blackshirts marched on Rome to take over the Italian government.	lots of CN tags especially in one section
1965 – Nostra aetate, the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions" of the Second Vatican Council, was promulgated by [[Pope Paul VI|Pope Template:Nowrap]], absolving the Jews of the killing of Jesus, and calling for increased relations with all non-Christian religions.	needs more footnotes
1995 – A fire broke out on a Baku Metro train in Azerbaijan's capital, killing 289 people and injuring 270 others in the world's deadliest subway disaster.	Date not cited
[[Margaret I of Denmark|Template:Nowrap of Denmark]] |d|1412|	Too much uncited
Peter Tordenskjold |b|1691|	Birthday not cited
Robert Liston |b|1794|	Birthday not cited
Francis Bacon |b|1909	refimprove section
John Hewson |b|1946	tagged for tone issues
Bill Gates |b|1955|	"Neutrality disputed" orange banner
Red Auerbach |d|2006	Unreffed paras, peacock para
Feast day of Saint Jude the Apostle (Western Christianity)	Lots of cn

Eligible

• 1640 – The Treaty of Ripon was agreed, ending the Second Bishops' War and forcing Charles I to summon the Long Parliament, ultimately leading to the First English Civil War.
• 1835 – In the first major engagement of the Texas Revolution, the Texian Army repelled a Mexican attack at the grounds of Mission Concepcion south of Downtown San Antonio.
• 1925 – The funerary mask of Tutankhamun, possibly originally made for Queen Neferneferuaten, was uncovered for the first time in approximately 3,250 years.
• 1940 – World War II: Italy invaded Greece after Greek prime minister Ioannis Metaxas rejected Benito Mussolini's ultimatum demanding the cession of Greek territory.
• 1965 – In St. Louis, Missouri, U.S., the 630-foot (190 m)-tall steel catenary Gateway Arch was completed.

• 1707 – The Hōei earthquake ruptured all segments of the Nankai megathrust simultaneously – the only earthquake recorded to have done so.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: As George Washington's Continental Army retreated northward from New York City, the British Army captured the village of White Plains.
• 1919 – The U.S. Congress passed the Volstead Act over president Woodrow Wilson's veto, reinforcing Prohibition in the United States.
• 1928 – Indonesian composer Wage Rudolf Supratman introduced "Indonesia Raya", now the country's national anthem.
• 1971 – Prospero (flight spare pictured), the first British satellite launched on a British rocket, lifted off from Launch Area 5B in Woomera, South Australia.
• 1992 – Hans-Adam II threatened to dismiss the Landtag of Liechtenstein over disagreements on the date of a referendum for the country's accession to the EEA.
• 2007 – In the Argentine general election, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner became the first woman to be elected president of Argentina.
• Born/died this day: | Ibas of Edessa |d|457| John Locke |d|1704| Johann Karl August Musäus |d|1787| Abigail Adams|d|1818| Max Henry Ferrars |b|1846| O. G. S. Crawford |b|1886| Lucy Bronze|b|1991|

Ali ibn al-Fadl al-Jayshani|d|915| Mary Harrison McKee|d|1930| Ganjar Pranowo|b|1968| Teikō Shiotani|d|1988|

Notes

• Prohibition in the United States appears on January 17, so Volstead Act should not appear in the same year
• KV62 appears on November 26, so Tutankhamun's mask should not appear in the same year

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• 312 – Civil wars of the Tetrarchy: Constantine the Great defeated Maxentius at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in Rome.
• 1453 – Ladislaus the Posthumous was crowned King of Bohemia, although George of Poděbrady remained in control of the government.
• 1664 – The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, the forerunner to the Royal Marines, was established at the grounds of the Honourable Artillery Company in London.
• 1886 – In New York Harbor, U.S. president Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty (pictured), a gift from France commemorating the Declaration of Independence.
• 2013 – The first terrorist attack in Beijing's recent history took place when members of the Turkistan Islamic Party drove a vehicle into a crowd, killing five people and injuring thirty-eight others.