Wikipedia:Main Page history/2013 October 28

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• ... that Finland's Lågskär island lighthouse (pictured) contained the world's first rotating gas lighting device?
• ... that two years after the magnificent wedding of Edward of Norfolk, his father-in-law was hanged at Tyburn?
• ... that the wooden chapel on Malören in northern Sweden became known as the "cathedral of the islands" due to its tall spire?
• ... that a content audit, a qualitative analysis of all or part of a website, can help an organization develop its content strategy?
• ... that in Dutch director Ruud van Hemert's Schatjes (1984), one of the most successful Dutch movies ever, parents and their children engage in guerrilla warfare?
• ... that no One Day International cricket matches have been played at the Albion Sports Complex since 1985?
• ... that royal midwife Mrs. Cannon collected exotic animals and curiosities such as Oliver Cromwell's nightcap?

• In
  Drivers' Championship
  for the fourth consecutive year.
• Astronomers confirm that z8_GND_5296, the most distant galaxy ever found, is 30 billion light-years from Earth.
• Record levels of smog lead to the closure of schools, highways and the airport in Harbin
  , China.
• Chad, Chile, Lithuania, Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia are
  elected to the United Nations Security Council
  , but Saudi Arabia declines its seat.
• Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse Airport, Laos, killing all 49 people on board.

October 28: Feast days of Simon the Zealot and Jude the Apostle (Western Christianity); Labour Day in New Zealand (2013)

• 312 – Constantine the Great defeated Maxentius at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in Rome.
• 1886 – In New York Harbor, U.S. President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty (pictured), a gift from France, to commemorate the centennial of the Declaration of Independence.
• 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.
• 1995 – The world's deadliest subway disaster took place in Baku, Azerbaijan, when an electrical malfunction caused a fire that killed 289 passengers and injured 265 more.
• 2009 – The detonation of a car bomb by an as-yet unidentified party in Peshawar, Pakistan, killed 137 people and injured more than 200 others.

More anniversaries: October 27 – October 28 – October 29

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