On this day... October 28:

On this day...

October 28:  Feast days of Simon the Zealot and Jude the Apostle(Western Christianity) 1420 – Beijing was officially designated the capital of the Ming Dynasty on the same year that the Forbidden City (pictured), the seat of government, was completed. 1835 – Māori chiefs signed the Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand and established theUnited Tribes of New Zealand. 1891 – The Nōbi Earthquake, Japan's largest known inland earthquake, struck the former provinces of Mino and Owari. 1919 – The U.S. Congress passed the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, reinforcing Prohibition in the United States. 2009 – The detonation of a car bomb by an unidentified party inPeshawar, Pakistan, killed 137 people and injured more than 200 others.