October 28th

October 28 is the 302nd day of the year.  There are 64 days remaining until the end of the year.

1793 Eli Whitney applies for a patent on cotton gin although juniper-flavored gin makes a better martini

1858 Macy's Department store opens in New York City without a parade

1868 Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1885 First porcelain toilet is built, butt it takes some getting used to. . .

1942 The Alaska Highway To Nowhere is completed with thanks, but no thanks.

1954 Ernest Hemingway wins Nobel prize for literature with a little persuasion

1965 In St Louis, Missouri, the 630-foot-tall catenarian steel Gateway Arch is completed, becoming the tallest freestanding, man-made monument in the USA. Replaces the Apotheosis of St. Louis IX as symbol for the best City (to work for) in the entire world—nay, universe.

2005 Irve Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.

2007 Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner becomes the first hot chick elected President of Argentina.

1913 Peter Glenville [Browne], gay English actor/director

1917 Jack Soo [Goro Suzuki], maybe gay Japanese-born US actor/Yemana–Barney Miller 

1944 Dennis Franz [Schlacta], US actor/Sipowicz–NYPD Blue

1946 Wade Nichols [Dennis Posa], gay US pornographic legend/singer

1956 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, closet queen Persian President of Iran 

1963 Eros Ramazzotti, Italian singer-songwriter 

1974 Joaquin Phoenix [Bottom], maybe gay US actor 

1975 Simone Corrente, maybe gay Italian actor 

2000 Anthony Dwain Lee, US actor at a Hallowe’en party, learns not to pull a fake gun on a real cop.

2010 Gerard Kelly, maybe gay Scottish actor (Eastenders, City Lights), goes on a blind date.