1959 Explorer VI, the U.S. satellite, takes the first video pictures of Earth.
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| 855 | The Emperor Lothar dies in Gaul, and his kingdom is divided between his three sons. | |
| 1066 | William, Duke of Normandy, soon to be known as William the Conqueror invades England. | |
| 1106 | King Henry of England defeats his brother Robert at the Battle of Tinchebrai and reunites England and Normandy. | |
| 1238 | James of Aragon retakes Valencia, Spain, from the Arabs. | |
| 1607 | Samuel de Champlain and his colonists return to France from Port Royal Nova Scotia. | |
| 1794 | The Anglo-Russian-Austrian Alliance of St. Petersburg, which is directed against France, is signed. | |
| 1864 | Union General William Rosecrans blames his defeat at Chickamauga on two of his subordinate generals. They are later exonerated by a court of inquiry. | |
| 1874 | Colonel Ronald Mackenzie raids a war camp of Comanche and Kiowa at the Battle of Palo Duro Canyon, Texas, slaughtering 2,000 of their horses. | |
| 1904 | A woman is placed under arrest for smoking a cigarette on New York’s Fifth Avenue. | |
| 1912 | W.C. Handy’s “Memphis Blues” is published. | |
| 1913 | Race riots in Harriston, Mississippi, kill 10 people. | |
| 1924 | Three U.S. Army aircraft arrive in Seattle, Washington after completing a 22-day round-the-world flight. | |
| 1928 | Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin when he notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory; it remained for Howard Florey and Ernst Chain to isolate the active ingredient, allowing the “miracle drug” to be developed in the 1940s. | |
| 1939 | Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland; Warsaw surrenders to German troops. | |
| 1958 | France ratifies a new constitution. | |
| 1959 | Explorer VI, the U.S. satellite, takes the first video pictures of Earth. | |
| 1961 | A military coup in Damascus ends the Egypt-Syria union known as the United Arab Republic that was formed Feb. 1, 1958. | |
| 1963 | Roy Lichtenstein’s pop art work Whaam!, depicting in comic-book style a US jet shooting down an enemy fighter, is exhibited for the first time; it will become one of the best known examples of pop art. | |
| 1995 | Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat sign an interim agreement concerning settlement on the Gaza Strip. | |
| 1996 | Afghanistan’s former president (1986-92) Mohammad Najibullah is tortured and murdered by the Taliban. | |
| 2008 |
SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, Falcon 1.
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Born on September 28
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| 1820 | Friedrich Engels, socialist who collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital. | |
| 1901 | Ed Sullivan, television host. | |
| 1909 | Al Capp, cartoonist who created the “Li’l Abner” comic strip. | |
| 1915 | Ethel Rosenberg, who, with her husband Julius, became one of the first American civilians executed for espionage. | |
| 1924 | Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2). | |
| 1934 | Brigitte Bardot, French actress. | |
| 1938 | Ben E. King, lead singer of The Drifters and composer of “Spanish Harlem” and “Stand by Me.” | |
| 1938 | Koko Taylor, blues singer. | |
| 1939 | Stuart Kauffman, theoretical biologist renowned for his work in studying the origin of life and the origins of molecular organization. | |
| 1943 | Winston “Win” Percy, three-time British Touring Car Champion, regarded by many as the World’s Number One Touring Car Driver | |
| 1960 | Jennifer Rush, singer, songwriter (“The Power of Love”). | |
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