September 28

48 BC – Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus -Pompey- is assassinated by order of King Ptolemy XIII upon arriving in Egypt.

1066 – William, Duke of Normandy, and in the  lands in Pevensey Bay, Sussex, on the south coast of England, beginning the Norman conquest.

1238 – King James I of Aragon retakes Valencia from the Moors during the Reconquista.

1542 – Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal, the first European in California, arrives at what is now San Diego.

1779 – Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.

1781 – American and French forces begin the siege of Yorktown, the last major land battle of the Revolution.

1871 – The Brazilian Parliament passes a law that frees all children thereafter born to slaves, and all government owned slaves.

1889 – The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM), meeting in Paris, defines the length of a meter

1892 – The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal in Mansfield, Pennsylvania.

1912 – U.S. Army Corporal Frank S. Scott becomes the first enlisted man, the pilot, Lt. Lewis Rockwell being the fourth officer, to die in an airplane crash as a passenger aboard a Wright Model B Biplane

1928 – Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later becomes known as penicillin.

1939 – Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland as the siege of Warsaw comes to an end.

1941 – Ted Williams achieves a .406 batting average for the season, and becomes the last major league baseball player to bat .400 or better.

1951 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public.

1991 – The Strategic Air Command stands down from alert all ICBMs scheduled for deactivation under treaty, as well as its strategic bomber force.

1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement (Oslo 2) on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

2008 – Space X’ Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid fueled, ground launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit.