Today In History - September 28

1066 William the Conqueror lands in England
1542 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo 'discovers' California at San Diego Bay
1781 The Siege of Yorktown begins: the last battle of the Revolutionary War
1787 Congress sends the Constitution to the state legislatures for their approval
1829 Walker's Appeal, racial antislavery pamphlet, is published in Boston
1850 Flogging in the US Navy and on merchant vessels abolished
1858 Donati's comet becomes the first comet to be photographed
1867 Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario
1868 Battle of Alcolea, causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France
1868 Opelousas Massacre at St. Landry Parish Louisiana: 200 blacks are killed
1879 Sydney Australia inaugurates a steam motor tram route
1906 US troops reoccupy Cuba and stay until 1909
1912 "Kiche Maru" sinks off Japan, killing 1,000 people
1914 German forces move into Antwerp Belgium
1922 Mussolini marches on Rome
1928 Juan de la Cierva makes the first helicopter flight over the English Channel
1930 Lou Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive games
1937 FDR dedicates the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River in Oregon
1939 A Soviet-German treaty agree on the 4th partition of Poland (WW II) and gives Lithuania to the USSR
1944 The first TV Musical comedy: The Boys from Boise
1944 Battle of Arnhem: the Germans defeat the British airborne troops in Netherlands
1958 Guinea votes for independence from France
1959 The Explorer VI reveals an intense radiation belt exists around the Earth
1960 Ted Williams hits his final home run: #521
1961 Syria withdraws from United Arab Republic
1964 Harpo Marx (The Marx Bros) dies at age 75
1965 Lava flows kill at least 350 people in Taal, Phillipines
1967 Walter Washington is elected the first mayor of Washington, DC
1972 Japan and Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations
1974 First lady Betty Ford undergoes a radical mastectomy
1974 John Lennon appears as a guest DJ on WNEW-FM in New York City
1976 Muhammad Ali retains his heavyweight boxing championship in a close 15-round decision over Ken Norton
1978 Israeli Knesset endorses the Camp David accord
1980 Jaromir Wagner becomes the first to fly the Atlantic standing on the wing
1981 Joseph Paul Franklin, avowed racist, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 2 black joggers in Salt Lake City
1982 The first reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules
1982 NASA launches Intelsat V
1983 The STS-9 vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA
1986 Record 23,000 start in a marathon in Mexico City
1988 The Bronx Museum for the Arts opens
1990 Marvin Gaye gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame
1991 Miles Davis dies at age 65 from pneumonia

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