September 28 is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 94 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).
NATIONAL DRINK BEER DAY
48 BC – Upon landing in Egypt, Roman general and politician Pompey is murdered on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt. ― From Enclyclopedia Britannica
NATIONAL DRINK BEER DAY
48 BC – Upon landing in Egypt, Roman general and politician Pompey is murdered on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt. ― From Enclyclopedia Britannica
1542 – Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo sails into present-day San Diego Bay during the course of his explorations of the northwest shores of Mexico on behalf of Spain. It was the first known European encounter with California.
1781 – General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary War.
1863 – Union Generals Alexander M. McCook and Thomas Crittenden lose their commands and are ordered to Indianapolis, Indiana, to face a court of inquiry following the Federal defeat at the battle of Chickamauga in Georgia.
1781 – General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary War.
1863 – Union Generals Alexander M. McCook and Thomas Crittenden lose their commands and are ordered to Indianapolis, Indiana, to face a court of inquiry following the Federal defeat at the battle of Chickamauga in Georgia.
1918 – On this day in 1918, a Liberty Loan parade in Philadelphia prompts a huge outbreak of the flu epidemic in the city. By the time the epidemic ended, an estimated 30 million people were dead worldwide. The pandemic originally started in rural Kansas.
1930 – The Yankees' Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive games.
1941 – On this day in 1941, the Boston Red Sox's Theodore Samuel "Ted" Williams plays a double-header against the Philadelphia Athletics on the last day of the regular season and gets six hits in eight trips to the plate, to boost his batting average to .406 and become the first player since Bill Terry in 1930 to hit .400. No one has hit .400 since.
1960 – On September 28, 1960, at Boston’s Fenway Park, Ted Williams hits a home run in the last at-bat of his 21-year career.Williams retired with a lifetime batting average of .344, a .483 career on-base percentage and 2,654 hits. His achievements are all the more impressive because his career was interrupted twice for military service: Williams was a Marine Corps pilot during World War II and the Korean War and as a result missed a total of nearly five seasons from baseball.
1972 – On this day, weekly casualty figures are released that contain no U.S. fatalities for the first time since March 1965. There were several reasons for this. President Nixon's troop withdrawal program, first initiated in the fall of 1969, had continued unabated even through the height of the fighting during the 1972 North Vietnamese "Easter Offensive." By this time in the war, there were less than 40,000 U.S. troops left in South Vietnam. Of this total, only a small number, mostly advisers, were involved in ground combat.
1991 – All US Air Force Minuteman II ICBM's plus certain bomber and tanker aircraft are taken off of standing alert by the US Secretary of Defense.
1994 – The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Sinai Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
2008 – American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
2014 – Hong Kong protests: Benny Tai announces that Occupy Central is launched as Hong Kong's government headquarters is being occupied by thousands of protesters. Hong Kong police resort to tear gas to disperse protesters but thousands remain.
1930 – Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist, author, and academic
1943 – George W. S. Trow, American novelist, playwright, and critic (d. 2006)
1947 – Rhonda Hughes, American mathematician and academic
TODAY'S BIRTHS
551 BC – Confucius, Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. (d. 479 BC)
1860 – Paul Ulrich Villard, French chemist and physicist (d. 1934)
1887 – Avery Brundage, American businessman, 5th President of the International Olympic Committee (d. 1975)
1860 – Paul Ulrich Villard, French chemist and physicist (d. 1934)
1887 – Avery Brundage, American businessman, 5th President of the International Olympic Committee (d. 1975)
1930 – Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist, author, and academic
1943 – George W. S. Trow, American novelist, playwright, and critic (d. 2006)
1947 – Rhonda Hughes, American mathematician and academic
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