Today is Thursday, Oct. 28, the 302nd day of 2004. There are 64 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, Oct. 28, the 302nd day of 2004. There are 64 days left in the year. On this date in 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, is dedicated in New York Harbor by President Cleveland.
In 1636, Harvard College is founded in Massachusetts. In 1793, Eli Whitney applies for a patent for his cotton gin (the patent is granted the following March). In 1919, Congress enacts the Volstead Act, which provides for enforcement of Prohibition, over President Wilson's veto. In 1922, fascism comes to Italy as Benito Mussolini takes control of the government. In 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary. In 1940, Italy invades Greece during World War II. In 1958, the Roman Catholic patriarch of Venice, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, is elected Pope; he takes the name John XXIII. In 1962, Soviet leader Nikita Khrush-chev informs the United States that he has ordered the dismantling of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. In 1965, Pope Paul VI issues a decree absolving Jews of collective guilt for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. In 1980, President Carter and Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan face off in a nationally broadcast, 90-minute debate in Cleveland. In 1994, President Clinton visits Kuwait, where he praises U.S. ground forces sent in response to an Iraqi threat, and all but promises the troops they'd be home by Christmas.
October 28, 1979: Melinda Ropar, a senior representing Sigma, Sigma, Sigma sorority, is queen and Gary Anania, a senior member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, is king at Youngstown State University's homecoming game. YSU beats Western Illinois 29-8.
Chuck Tanner, manager of the World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates, is honored with a parade on Chuck Tanner Day at his hometown of New Castle.
Baseball player Hank Aaron, whose 755 home runs during a 22-year career is still unsurpassed, speaks at the Trumbull County NAACP's Freedom Fund Dinner in Warren at the Avalon Inn.
October 28, 1964: Both the foreign and fiscal policies of the Johnson administration are criticized by Congressman-at-large Robert Taft Jr. during a rally of Republican precinct workers at the Calvin Center in Youngstown.
U.S. Steel Corp. reports a third-quarter profit of $55.1 million or 90 cents a share, the best showing for a July-September period since 1958.
October 28, 1954: Two of five escapees from the Mahoning County Jail are being hunted in the East Liverpool area after a taxi service operator was kidnapped from his office and robbed.
U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown leaves for Washington, D.C., to take direct charge of his office as chairman of the National Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for the closing days of the campaign.
American Novelist Ernest Hemingway wins the 1954 Nobel prize for literature for his book, "The Old Man and the Sea," which he says he wrote because he was broke.
October 28, 1929: The Warren E. Manning Co. of Boston, one of the outstanding landscape architectural institutions in the country, suggests that a Lake Erie to Ohio River highway could be developed into a "Road of Remembrance" and would be one of the most scenic routes in the state.
Strong banking support comes to the aid of the stock market after another gigantic selling movement carries the prices of leading issues down $5 to nearly $45 a share.
Mahoning County Sheriff Adam Stones says revenge is the apparent motive behind the murder of Denny Tinatori, 35, a World War Marine and paroled convict found with three bullets in his body in a road between Alliance and Sebring. The sheriff says he believes Tinatori knew too much about certain criminals in the county and it cost him his life.