What happened on a day like today

Do you know what happened on a day like today? Learn about the main historical facts and natural phenomena that marked the ephemeris of this October 28 of 2021.

What is commemorated every October 28

World Animation Day

a October 28, but in 1892 the pioneer of French cinema, Charles-Émile Reynauden made the Luminous Pantomimes, the first public screening of animated cinema. For this reason the ‘World Animation Day’ is celebrated.

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In this ephemeris It is celebrated on the day of this martial art, the date of the birthday of the creator of Judo, Jigoro Kano.

Ephemeris of October 28, 2021

1492: In the Bahamas, the Spaniard Rodrigo de Jerez is the first Westerner to see the Indians smoking tobacco and the first to imitate them.

1538: In the town of Santo Domingo, on the island of Hispaniola, in the middle of the Caribbean Sea, the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomás de Aquino, the first University of America, is founded.

1862: In Caimito de la Hanábana (Matanzas province), the Cuban patriot boy José Martí writes his first known letter, addressed to his mother, Leonor Pérez.

1886: In the United States, President Grover Cleveland inaugurates the Statue of Liberty, a gift from France.

1892: In Paris (France), the precursor of cinema Émile Reynaud premieres his Luminous pantomimes ―Films animated through the system known as optical theater―. This fact is recognized as the beginning of cartoons.

1930: In the United States, Pablo Picasso wins the first Carnegie International Painting Prize.

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1937: The Mexican Society of Anthropology is founded.

1940: Beginning of the Greco-Italian War with the entry of Greece into the Second World War.

1951: In Catalonia (Spain), the Argentine driver Juan Manuel Fangio wins his first Formula 1 world title.

1958: In Vatican City, Cardinal Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli is elected pope, and adopts the name of John XXIII.

1959: In the Straits of Florida, the Cessna plane that was transporting Commander Camilo Cienfuegos from Camagüey to Havana (500 km) disappears.

1959: In Mexico, a Category 5 hurricane causes flooding in the state of Colima, killing 1,800 people in the region (1959 Mexico Hurricane).

1962: In Washington (United States), President John F. Kennedy agrees to stop trying to invade Cuba, and the Soviet Union withdraws the atomic missiles installed in Cuba. Missile Crisis ends.

1967: The United States government, through its president Lyndon B. Johnson, hands over to Mexico the territorial portion called “El Chamizal.”

1975: The Mexican government and the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences sign an agreement to establish the FLACSO headquarters in Mexico.

1981: In the United States, Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield form the thrash metal band

Metallica
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Carlos Augusto González, Green Ecologist candidate for the municipal presidency of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, promised to take

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Candidate del Verde vows to take Metallica to Reynosa

1988: France authorizes the

abortion pill
known as Mifepristone.

1993: Borís Yeltsin decrees private land ownership in Russia.

2005: In Venezuela, President Hugo Chávez declares the country “a territory free of illiteracy.”

2005: Mexico becomes the 100th country to ratify the statute of the International Criminal Court.

2007: Heavy floods occur in the Mexican states of Tabasco and Chiapas.

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