What happened on 28 October?

14 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1962 Khrushchev announces Soviet withdrawal from Cuba At 5 pm Moscow time — 9 am in Washington — Radio Moscow broadcasts Khrushchev's acceptance: the weapons 'you describe as offensive' will be crated and returned to the Soviet Union.
2. 1886 Statue of Liberty dedicated Gift from France to the United States; symbol of immigration and freedom.
3. 312 Battle of the Milvian Bridge Constantine defeats Maxentius outside Rome under the labarum; turning point in the Christianisation of the empire.
4. 1922 March on Rome Mussolini's Blackshirts march on the capital and the king hands him power — fascism's template seizure of a state.
5. 1918 Founding of Czechoslovakia The Czechoslovak National Committee proclaims independence in Prague; the new republic will be interwar central Europe's most durable democracy.
6. 1681 Kangxi Emperor consolidates Qing rule Kangxi suppresses the Three Feudatories revolt and stabilises Qing rule for a 61-year reign.
7. 1726 Swift's Gulliver's Travels Satirical travel novel through Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and Houyhnhnmland.
8. 1955 Born: Bill Gates Microsoft co-founder; later philanthropist of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
9. 1893 Tchaikovsky's Pathétique Symphony Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony, ending in a slow lament, is premiered nine days before his sudden death from cholera — or, rumour said, suicide.
10. 1647 Putney Debates Levellers and senior officers argue about the political settlement after Civil War.
11. 1940 Italian invasion of Greece Mussolini's failed Greek invasion forced German intervention in the Balkans.
12. 1533 Catherine de' Medici marries the future Henry II The fourteen-year-old orphaned heiress of the Medici marries the King of France's second son at Marseille, in a match arranged by her uncle Pope Clement VII.
13. 1908 Daily Telegraph affair In an interview with a British newspaper, Wilhelm tells the British they are 'mad as March hares' and claims credit for their Boer War strategy; the uproar at home curbs his person
14. 1954 Hemingway wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Honoured for his mastery of narrative, most recently in The Old Man and the Sea; still recovering from two plane crashes in Africa, he sends a short speech to be read in Stockholm.