Today in History. October 28. On this day in 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland. In 1936 President Franklin D Roosevelt rededicated the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary. In 1636, the General Court of Massachusetts passed a legislative act establishing Harvard College. In 1858, Rowland Hussey Macy opened his first New York store at Sixth Avenue and 14th Street in Manhattan. In 1919, Congress enacted the Volstead Act, which provided for enforcement of Prohibition, over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto. In 1922, fascism came to Italy when Benito Mussolini took control of the government. In 1962, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev informed the United States that he had ordered the dismantling of missile bases in Cuba. In 2016, the FBI announced it was investigating whether Hillary Clinton’s emails, found on a device belonging to Anthony Weiner, might contain classified information. This announcement, coming days before election day, may have influenced voters in the last minute, but there is no concrete evidence that it would have changed the electoral college results.