Track | Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
1. | 1886 | In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty. | The Descendents | Statue of Liberty | Milo Goes to College |
2. | 1891 | The Mino-Owari Earthquake, the largest earthquake in Japan's history, strikes Gifu Prefecture. | Bill Haley & the Comets | Shake, Rattle and Roll | Shake, Rattle and Roll |
3. | 1915 | Richard Strauss conducts the first performance of his tone poem Eine Alpensinfonie in Berlin. | Fischerspooner | Tone Poem | #1 |
4. | 1948 | Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT. | Joan of Arc | Ne Mosquitoes Pass | How Can Anything So Little Be Any More? |
5. | 1965 | Construction on the St. Louis Arch is completed. | April Stevens & Nino Tempo | St. Louis Blues | Sing the Great Songs |
(Historical facts about October 28 are from Wikipedia.)
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