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This Day in History 28 October
  • 2009 NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program. 17 yrs ago
  • 2009 The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213. 17 yrs ago
  • 2007 Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner becomes the first woman elected President of Argentina. 19 yrs ago
  • 2006 Funeral service takes place for those executed at Bykivnia forest, outside Kiev, Ukraine. 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s : early 1940s are reburied. 20 yrs ago
  • 2005 Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day. 21 yrs ago
  • 1998 An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan. 28 yrs ago
  • 1995 289 people are killed and 265 injured in Baku Metro fire, the deadliest subway disaster. 31 yrs ago
  • 1986 The centenary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty is celebrated in New York Harbor. 40 yrs ago
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Some people find life easier to understand if they believe that each moment of it was planned, even before they arrived here on planet Earth. They are comforted by the notion of destiny. I don't know about you but I...

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