September 28<\/p>\n
48 BC \u2013 Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus -Pompey- is assassinated by order of King Ptolemy XIII upon arriving in Egypt.<\/p>\n
1066 \u2013 William, Duke of Normandy, and in the\u00a0 lands in Pevensey Bay, Sussex, on the south coast of England, beginning the Norman conquest.<\/p>\n
1238 \u2013 King James I of Aragon retakes Valencia from the Moors during the Reconquista.<\/p>\n
1542 \u2013 Juan Rodr\u00edguez Cabrillo of Portugal, the first European in California, arrives at what is now San Diego.<\/p>\n
1779 \u2013 Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.<\/p>\n
1781 \u2013 American and French forces begin the siege of Yorktown, the last major land battle of the Revolution.<\/p>\n
1871 \u2013 The Brazilian Parliament passes a law that frees all children thereafter born to slaves, and all government owned slaves.<\/p>\n
1889 \u2013 The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM), meeting in Paris, defines the length of a meter<\/p>\n
1892 \u2013 The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal in Mansfield, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
1912 \u2013 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<\/p>\n
1928 \u2013 Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later becomes known as penicillin.<\/p>\n
1939 \u2013 Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland as the siege of Warsaw comes to an end.<\/p>\n
1941 \u2013 Ted Williams achieves a .406 batting average for the season, and becomes the last major league baseball player to bat .400 or better.<\/p>\n
1951 \u2013 CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public.<\/p>\n
1991 \u2013 The Strategic Air Command stands down from alert all ICBMs scheduled for deactivation under treaty, as well as its strategic bomber force.<\/p>\n
1995 \u2013 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement (Oslo 2) on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.<\/em><\/p>\n 2008 \u2013 Space X’ Falcon 1<\/em> becomes the first privately developed liquid fueled, ground launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 28 48 BC \u2013 Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus -Pompey- is assassinated by order of King Ptolemy XIII upon arriving in Egypt. 1066 \u2013 William, Duke of Normandy, and in the\u00a0 lands in Pevensey Bay, Sussex, on the south coast of England, beginning the Norman conquest. 1238 \u2013 King James I of Aragon retakes Valencia from … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60122"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96330,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60122\/revisions\/96330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}