28 October

Today is 28 October, the 301st day of the year. There are 64 days left in the year. On this day:

• Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was born in Seattle. Microsoft is installed on 75% of all computers.
  
• 1848, the first railroad in Spain is opened.
  
• 1538, the first university in the New World is established.
• 1886, in New York Harbour, President Grover Cleveland dedicated 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.
• 1929, was Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
• 1936, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.
• 1942, the Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.
• 1998, and Air China airplane is hijacked by its own pilot and flown to Taiwan.
  

I have dreams, and I have nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.

Jonas Salk (born 28 October 1914)

To ask may be but a moment's shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifelong shame.

Jigoro Kano (born 28 October 1860)

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Evelyn Vaugh (born 28 October 1903)