Post by farmgal on Sept 26, 2012 23:37:23 GMT -5
September 27th is the 271st day of this leap year in the Gregorian calendar.
There are 95 days remaining until the end of the year.
Days until Election Day, Tuesday November 6, 2012: 40
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48 BC Pompey the Great is assassinated on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompey_the_Great
1238 - Muslim Valencia surrenders to the besieging King James I of Aragon the Conqueror.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Valencia#Conquest
1422 The Treaty of Melno was signed, establishing the Prussian–Lithuanian border, which afterwards remained unchanged for about 500 years.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Melno
1542 - Navigator João Rodrigues Cabrilho of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California, United States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_Rodrigues_Cabrilho
1704 - A statute was enacted by the colony of Maryland, giving ministers the right to impose divorce on "unholy couples."
1779 - American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Huntington_(statesman)
1781 - American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Yorktown
1787 - The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution
1791 - France becomes the first European country to emancipate its Jewish population.
1808 - Andover Theological Seminary first opened in Massachusetts, under sponsorship of the Congregational Church.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andover_Theological_Seminary
1822 A convention was held in Harrison Church, Nelson County, Kentucky, for the purpose of establishing a Lutheran synod in Kentucky.
cyclopedia.lcms.org/display.asp?t1=K&word=KENTUCKYSYNOD
1823 Leo XII (1760–1829) was elected as pope.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_XII
1829 - Walker's Appeal, racial antislavery pamphlet, published in Boston.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Walker_(abolitionist)#Walker.27s_Appeal_.281829.29
1836 - The first of three early season snows brought four inches of snow to Hamilton, NY, and two inches to Ashby MA. (David Ludlum)
1850 - Flogging in US Navy & on merchant vessels abolished.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flogging#Flogging_as_military_punishment
1858 - Donati's comet (discovered by Giovanni Donati, 1826-1873) became the first to be photographed. It was a bright comet that developed a spectacular curved dust tail with two thin gas tails, captured by an English commercial photographer, William Usherwood, using a portrait camera at a low focal ratio. At Harvard, W.C. Bond, attempted an image on a collodion plate the following night, but the comet shows only faintly and no tail can be seen. Bond was subsequently able to evaluate the image on Usherwood's plate. The earliest celestial daguerreotypes were made in 1850-51, though after the Donati comet, no further comet photography took place until 1881, when P.J.C. Janssen and J.W. Draper took the first generally recognized photographs of a comet.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donati%27s_comet
1865 - Elizabeth Anderson (née Garrett, 9 Jun 1836 - 17 Dec 1917) became the first female licensed physician in Britain. The daughter of a Whitechapel paenbroker, she had studied medicine privately after being refused admission to medical schools. On 28 Sep 1865, she was examined orally in medicine, midwifery and medical pathology, and was one of three out of the seven candidates to receive a Final Certificate, entitling her to practice as a qualified physician and surgeon. A year after being licensed, she became a general medical attendant to St. Mary's Dispensary, London, later known as New Hospital, where she instituted medical courses for women. New Hospital was renamed in her honour (1918) as the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Garrett_Anderson
1889 - The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Conference_on_Weights_and_Measures
1893 - Albuquerque, NM, was soaked with 2.25 inches of rain, enough to establish a 24 hour record for that city. (The Weather Channel)
1895 - At a convention in Atlanta, three Baptist groups merged to form the National Baptist Convention. It is today the largest African-American denomination in America and the world.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Baptist_Convention,_USA,_Inc.#Formal_formation
1901 - Prof. R. A. Fessenden applied for a U.S. patent for "Improvements in apparatus for the wireless transmission of electromagnetic wave, said improvements relating more especially to the transmission and reproduction of words or other audible signals." According to Important Events in Radiotelegraphy, a U.S. Dept of Commerce publication (1916), "It appears that in connection with this apparatus there was contemplated the use of an alternating current generator having a frequency of 50,000 per second." Prof. Fessenden was granted a number of United States patents between 1899 and 1905 covering devices used in connection with radiotelegraphy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._A._Fessenden
1906 - US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba#Early_20th_century
1917 - A hurricane hit Pensacola, FL. Winds gusted to 95 mph, and the barometric pressure dipped to 28.50 inches. Winds at Mobile AL gusted to 75 mph. (The Weather Channel)
Lynching victim Will Brown.
1919 Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska, US.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha_Race_Riot_of_1919
1928 - Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fleming
1930 - Lou Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive games
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Gehrig
1832 Cholera Brushed Charles Finney Charles Finney is remembered as one of America's most successful revivalists. As many as 500,000 people were converted to Christ under his preaching. He was also one of America's most controversial revivalists. Although a mild Calvinist in Jonathan Edward's mold, he was accused of being an errant Arminian or even a thoroughly heretical Pelagian. His perfectionist theories were bitterly challenged as unsound. He probably did not believe in original sin. His doctrine of the atonement disagreed with what the church has believed through all history. But he did call men and women to repent of the sins they deliberately committed, the sins they could leave off, and many listened.
In its bare bones, Finney's theology said it is man's duty to get right with God through Christ NOW. We have no excuse not to. To talk of predestination is evasive. All could come to salvation NOW if they would. To ensure that pressure was put on people to do just that, Finney introduced modern revival methods. These included the anxious bench, calls for immediate Christian commitment, prolonged meetings, and the holding of multiple meetings in a week.
Finney was a social force. Women were allowed to pray aloud in his services and to actively engage in the ministry. This appalled many from the older religious traditions. Opposed to slavery, Finney opened Oberlin College, the first American College to graduate a black woman with a B. A. He was a social force because he believed that true salvation proves itself in immediate hard work for Christ. The man who doesn't work to improve his society, as a result of being a Christian, is probably not a Christian.
In 1832, weary of the unsettled life of a revivalist, he accepted the pulpit of the Chatham Street Church in New York. For the first time in his married life, he bought a home of his own. Chatham was a free church, one of the churches which refused to charge pew rents, which typically excluded the poor or relegated them to bad seats.
Finney was to be installed as Chatham's pastor on this day, September 28, 1832. During the service he took ill. It was the cholera season in New York. It soon became apparent he had the disease (it causes severe diarrhea and rapid dehydration). A neighbor, seized with the disease the same night, died by morning. For days Finney's life was in desperate danger. It was months before he regained enough strength to return to the pulpit on a regular basis.
Finney's messages and benevolence attracted many people to his church. The poor were attracted by its rent-free pews. Finney immediately put his converts to work solving social ills. Many benevolent organizations operated out of the Chatham Street Church. Eventually a larger tabernacle had to be built. Finney pastored it until 1837. He died in 1875, 43 years after his nearly deadly bout with cholera.
www.christianity.com/ChurchHistory/11630416/
1934 - The first issue of "The Sword of the Lord" was published. Founded by Baptist evangelist John R. Rice, 39, it became the largest independent Christian weekly for years, and was recognized by liberals as the "voice of fundamentalism." It was the largest independent Christian weekly for many years.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sword_of_the_Lord
1937 - FDR dedicates Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (Oregon)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonneville_Dam
1939 - Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territories_of_Poland_annexed_by_the_Soviet_Union
1939 - Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_in_Germany
1941 - Ted Williams assures his .400 avg on last day with 6 hits
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Williams
1941 SS Patrick Henry, the first of 2,751 Liberty ships built during World War II by the United States, was launched.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_ships
Corpses of inmates from Klooga concentration camp stacked for burning
1944 - Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_28
1951 - Norm Van Brocklin of the Rams passes for NFL-record 554 yards
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_Van_Brocklin
1951 CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
1959 - Explorer VI satellite (launched 7 Aug 1959) revealed an intense radiation belt around Earth and took the first remote imaging TV pictures of Earth meteorological conditions.
1960 - Ted Williams hits his final homer #521
1961 - USN Comdr Forrest S Petersen takes X-15 to 30,720 m
1965 - Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km
1967 - Walter Washington elected 1st mayor of Washington, DC
1968 - Beatles' "Hey Jude," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
1969 - A meteorite fell over Murchison, Australia. Only 100-kg of this meteorite have been found. Classified as a carbonaceous chondrite, type II (CM2), this meteorite is suspected to be of cometary origin due to its high water content (12%). An abundance of amino acids found within this meteorite has led to intense study by researchers as to its origins. More than 92 different amino acids have been identified within the Murchison meteorite to date. Nineteen of these are found on Earth. The remaining amino acids have no apparent terrestrial source.
1969 - Joe Kapp (Minn Vikings) passes for 7 touchdowns vs Balt Colts (52-14)
1973 - The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the September 11 1973 coup d'état in Chile.
1974 - 1st lady Betty Ford undergoes a radical mastectomy
1974 - California Angel Nolan Ryan 3rd no-hitter beats Minn Twin, 4-0
1976 - Muhammad Ali retains heavyweight boxing championship in a close 15-round decision over Ken Norton at Yankee Stadium
1978 - Israeli Knesset endorses Camp David accord
1981 - Joseph Paul Franklin, avowed racist, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 2 black joggers in Salt Lake City
1982 - 1st reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules
1982 - NASA launches Intelsat V
1987 - Thunderstorms produced up to ten inches of rain in southern Kansas and north central Oklahoma overnight. The Chikaskia River rose 2.5 feet above flood stage at Blackwell OK during the day causing flooding in Kay and Grant counties of north central Oklahoma. Early morning thunderstorms in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas produced 3.07 inches of rain in six hours at McAllen. Thunderstorms produced up to six inches of rain in southeastern Texas later in the day. (National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Thunderstorms developing ahead of a cold front in the central U.S. produced severe weather from northern Texas to the Lower Missouri Valley during the late afternoon and evening hours. Hail three inches in diameter was reported at Nolan TX, and wind gusts to 80 mph were reported at Lawrence KS. Thunderstorms drenched downtown Kansas City MO with up to four inches of rain, leaving some cars stranded in water six feet deep. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Bronx Museum for the Arts opens
1988 - LA Dodger Orel Hershiser sets record for consecutive scoreless inns
1989 - Thunderstorms over northeastern Florida drenched Jacksonville with 4.28 inches of rain between midnight and 6 AM EDT. Unseasonably cool weather prevailed in the northeastern U.S. Five cities reported record low temperatures for the date, including Binghamton NY with a reading of 30 degrees. Morning lows were in the 20s in northern New England. Unseasonably mild weather prevailed in the northwestern U.S., with afternoon highs in the upper 70s and 80s. In Oregon, Astoria reported a record high of 83 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - Marvin Gaye gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame
1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
2000 - Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
2008 - SpaceX launches the first ever private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
Births
551 BC Confucius, Chinese philosopher (d. 479)
1809 Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (d. 1899)
1821 Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (d. 1874)
1839 Frances Elizabeth Willard, American educator and temperance leader, in Churchville, New York (d 17 Feb 1898).
As a girl, she felt keenly the unequal status of women. While attending college, she experienced a definite religious conversion. Willard graduated from Northwestern Female College in Evanston, Ill in 1859, a school to which she later returned to teach. Becoming interested in the temperance movement, she volunteered herself in its service and worked for a time with Dwight L. Moody. In 1879 her extreme efforts led to her election as president of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union, a platform she employed to reach out to all women and to press for women's rights as well as helping pass Prohibition.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Willard_(suffragist)
1840 Henry M. MacCracken at Oxford, Ohio. (d 1918) A Presbyterian minister, he became chancellor of the New York University 1891-1910.
dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/archives/maccracken.html
1856 - Edward Herbert Thompson (d 1935) American archaeologist who revealed much about Mayan civilization from his exploration of the city and religious shrine of Chichén Itzá in Yucatán. Cenote is the Spanish equivalent of the Yucatec Maya word for a water-filled limestone sinkhole. In Mexico's northern Yucatán Peninsula, where there are few lakes or streams, cenotes provided a stable supply of water for the ancient Maya people who settled there. The great city of Chichén Itzá was built around a cluster of these natural wells, including the one known as the Cenote of Sacrifice. On 5 Mar 1904, Thompson, began dredging the Cenote of Sacrifice. He verified legends that this was a repository for the precious objects and human victims offered to the gods by the ancient Maya.
1856 Kate Douglas Wiggin, American children's author (d. 1923)
1873 - Julian Lowell Coolidge (d 1954) U.S. mathematician and educator who published numerous works on theoretical mathematics along the lines of the Study-Segre school. Coolidge received a B.A. at Harvard (1895), then in England he graduated (1897) with a B.Sc. from Balliol College Oxford. (It is interesting that this degree from Oxford was in natural science and it was the first natural science degree ever awarded by Oxford.) He taught at Groton School, Conn. (1897-9) where one of his pupils was Franklin D Roosevelt, the future U.S. president. From 1899 he taught at Harvard University. Between 1902 and 1904, he went to Turin to study under Corrado Segre and then to Bonn where he studied under Eduard Study. His Mathematics of the Great Amateurs is perhaps his best-known work.
1877 Albert Young, American welterweight boxer (d. 1940)
1878 Joseph Ruddy, American freestyle swimmer and water polo player (d. 1962)
1881 Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (d. 1950)
1887 Avery Brundage, American athlete and sports official (d. 1975)
1889 Jack Fournier, American baseball player (d. 1973)
1891 Myrtle Gonzalez, American actress (d. 1918)
1899 Alice de Janzé, American heiress (d. 1941)
1900 Joe Falcon, Cajun accordion player (d. 1965)
1901 William S. Paley, American radio and television executive (d. 1990)
1901 Ed Sullivan, American television show host (d. 1974)
1903 Samuel A. Ward (b. 28 Dec 1847), American music publisher. Wrote hymn tune MATERNA for "America the Beautiful."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_A._Ward
1909 Al Capp, American cartoonist (d. 1979)
1915 Ethel Rosenberg, Soviet spy, (d. 1953)
1918 Arnold Stang, American comic actor (d. 2009)
1919 Doris Singleton, American actress (d. 2012)
1923 William Windom, American actor (d. 2012)
1923 Tuli Kupferberg, American counterculture poet, author, cartoonist, pacifist anarchist, publisher and co-founder of the band The Fugs (d. 2010)
1925 - Seymour R. Cray (d 1996) American electronics engineer who pioneered the use of transistors in computers and later developed massive supercomputers to run business and government information networks. He was the preeminent designer of the large, high-speed computers known as supercomputers.
1925 Frank Latimore, American actor (d. 1998)
1926 Jerry Clower, American comedian (d. 1998)
1928 Koko Taylor, American blues musician, popularly known as the "Queen of the Blues" (d. 2009)
1930 Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist
1933 Johnny "Country" Mathis, American country singer (d. 2011)
1937 Rod Roddy, American television announcer (d. 2003)
1938 Ben E. King, American soul singer
1939 Elbridge Bryant, American tenor (The Temptations) (d. 1975)
1939 Stuart Kauffman, American biologist
1942 Marshall Bell, American actor
1942 Edward "Little Buster" Forehand, soul and blues musician (d. 2006)
1943 Warren Lieberfarb, American media executive
1943 J. T. Walsh, American actor (d. 1998)
1944 Marcia Muller, American author
1946 Jeffrey Jones, American actor
1950 Laurie Lewis, American musician
1950 John Sayles, American director and screenwriter
1951 Norton Buffalo, singer-songwriter, country and blues harmonica player, record producer (d. 2009)
1954 Steve Largent, American football player and U.S. Congressman
1964 Janeane Garofalo, American actress and comedian
1966 Maria Canals Barrera, American actress, singer
1966 Ginger Fish, American musician (Marilyn Manson)
1966 Leilani Sarelle, American Actress
1967 Mira Sorvino, American actress
1970 Mike DeJean, American baseball player
1971 Joseph Arthur, American singer-songwriter
1971 A. J. Croce, American singer-songwriter and piano player
1982 Emeka Okafor, American basketball player
1982 St. Vincent, American multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter
1987 Hilary Duff, American actress and singer
2000 Frankie Jonas, American actor
Deaths
48 BC – Pompey the Great, Roman general and politician (b. 106 BC)
235 Saint Pontianus, bishop of Rome.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pontian
929 (or 935) King Wenceslas, ruler and patron saint of Czechoslovakia, (b. ca. 907).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Wenceslas
1891 Herman Melville, American novelist (b 1819)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville
1895 - Louis Pasteur (b 1822) French chemist and microbiologist born in Dole. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of diseases. His discoveries reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and he created the first vaccine for rabies and anthrax. His experiments supported the germ theory of disease. He was best known to the general public for inventing a method to stop milk and wine from causing sickness, a process that came to be called pasteurization. He is regarded as one of the three main founders of microbiology, together with Ferdinand Cohn and Robert Koch. Pasteur also made many discoveries in the field of chemistry, most notably the molecular basis for the asymmetry of certain crystals. His body lies beneath the Institute Pasteur in Paris in a spectacular vault covered in depictions of his accomplishments in Byzantine mosaics.
1914 Richard Sears, American businessman (b. 1863)
1918 Freddie Stowers, American soldier (b. 1896)
1938 - Charles Edgar Duryea (b 1861) American inventor who with his brother J. Frank Duryea built the first automobile with multiple copies manufactured in the U.S. On 28 Nov 1895, Frank drove their car to win $2,000 in the first American Automobile Race in Chicago, sponsored by the Chicago Times-Herald. They travelled 54 miles from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois and back, in just over 10 hours. In 1896, they set up the Duryea Motor Wagon Co. in Springfield, Mass. to manufacture multiple units of a gasoline-powered vehicle. Their production of 13 identical machines that year is considered to be the first serial production of American cars, earning them recognition as "Fathers of the American Automobile Industry".
1943 Sam Ruben, American chemist (b. 1913)
1949 Chrysanthus, Greek orthodox Archbishop of Athens (b. 1881)
1953 - Edwin Hubble (b 1889) American astronomer, born in Marshfield, Mo., who is considered the founder of extragalactic astronomy and who provided the first evidence of the expansion of the universe. In 1923-5 he identified Cepheid variables in "spiral nebulae" M31 and M33 and proved conclusively that they are outside the Galaxy. His investigation of these objects, which he called extragalactic nebulae and which astronomers today call galaxies, led to his now-standard classification system of elliptical, spiral, and irregular galaxies, and to proof that they are distributed uniformly out to great distances. Hubble measured distances to galaxies and their redshifts, and in 1929 he published the velocity-distance relation which is the basis of modern cosmology.
1954 - George Harrison Shull (b 1874) American botanist and geneticist known as the father of hybrid corn (maize). A leader in developing the multiple allele concept of genes, Shull's work with maize led him to develop the first hybrid corn, ancestor of today's sweet corn and a boon to commercial farmers. Shull’s approach was to study the effects of inbreeding and subsequent cross-fertilization in corn. In 1909, he published A Pure Line Method of Corn Breedingin which he outlined – with remarkable insight – the basics of breeding hybrid corn. As a result of his researches, corn yields per acre were increased 25 to 50 percent. He developed a method of corn breeding that made possible the production of seed capable of thriving under various soil and climatic conditions.
1956 William Edward Boeing, American aviation manufacturer (b. 1881)
1964 Harpo Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1888)
1970 John Dos Passos, American novelist (b. 1896)
1978 Pope John Paul I (b 17 Oct 1912), 262nd pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_I
1982 Mabel Albertson, American actress (b. 1901)
1987 - Willard Harrison Bennett (b 1903) American physicist who discovered (1934) the pinch effect, an electromagnetic process that may offer a way to magnetically confine a plasma at temperatures high enough for controlled nuclear fusion reactions to occur. He proposed (1936) the tandem Van de Graaff accelerator, which later became widely used in nuclear research. He invented a radio-frequency mass spectrometer, developed in 1950. Since it required no heavy magnet, it was the first launched into space to measure the masses of atoms. Sputnik III carried the first R-F mass spectrometer into space. It was the only space instrument used by the Russians and credited to an American inventor in their own Russian-language publications.
1991 Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1926)
1993 Peter De Vries, American novelist (b. 1910)
1993 Alexander A. Drabik, American soldier (b. 1910)
1994 Harry Saltzman, American film producer (b. 1915)
2000 Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)
2002 Patsy Mink, American politician (b. 1927)
2003 Althea Gibson, American tennis player (b. 1927)
2003 Elia Kazan, Greek-born American film director (b. 1909)
2004 Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (b. 1924)
2004 Scott Muni, American disc jockey (b. 1930)
2005 Constance Baker Motley, American judge (b. 1921)
2007 Wally Parks, American car racing executive (b. 1913)
2010 Dolores Wilson, American opera singer (b. 1928)
Holidays and observances
Christian Feast Day:
Aaron of Auxerre
Annemund
Conval
Eustochium
Exuperius
Faustus of Riez
Leoba
Lorenzo Ruiz
Paternus of Auch
Wenceslas
September 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Venerable Chariton the Confessor, abbot, of Palestine (350)
Martyrdom of Blessed Wenceslas I of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs (935)
Prophet Baruch (11th century B.C.)
Martyrs Alexander, Alphius, Zosimas, Mark, Nicon, Neon, Heliodorus, and 24 others in Pisidia and Phrygia (4th century)
Saint Alcison, bishop of Nicopolis (Preveza) in Epirus (561)
Saint Leoba, abbess of Tauberbischofsheim, English missionary to Germany (779)
Saint Auxentius the Alaman, Wonderworker of Cyprus (12th c.)
Sts. Cyril, schemamonk, and Maria, schemanun (ca. 1337), parents of St. Sergius of Radonezh
Saint Herodion of Iloezersk, abbot (1541)
Saint Chariton, monk, of Syanzhemsk in Vologda (1509)
Martyr Eustace of Rome
Cyriacos the Hermit of Palestine (556)
www.lcms.org/page.aspx?pid=387
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_28
www.todayinsci.com/9/9_28.htm
www.scopesys.com/cgi-bin/today2.cgi
www.weatherforyou.com/cgi-bin/weather_history/today2S.pl
www.lutheranhistory.org/history/tih0928.htm
www.christianity.com/HistoryByDay/0928/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_28_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics)
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48 BC Pompey the Great is assassinated on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompey_the_Great
1238 - Muslim Valencia surrenders to the besieging King James I of Aragon the Conqueror.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Valencia#Conquest
1422 The Treaty of Melno was signed, establishing the Prussian–Lithuanian border, which afterwards remained unchanged for about 500 years.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Melno
1542 - Navigator João Rodrigues Cabrilho of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California, United States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_Rodrigues_Cabrilho
1704 - A statute was enacted by the colony of Maryland, giving ministers the right to impose divorce on "unholy couples."
1779 - American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Huntington_(statesman)
1781 - American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Yorktown
1787 - The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution
1791 - France becomes the first European country to emancipate its Jewish population.
1808 - Andover Theological Seminary first opened in Massachusetts, under sponsorship of the Congregational Church.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andover_Theological_Seminary
1822 A convention was held in Harrison Church, Nelson County, Kentucky, for the purpose of establishing a Lutheran synod in Kentucky.
cyclopedia.lcms.org/display.asp?t1=K&word=KENTUCKYSYNOD
1823 Leo XII (1760–1829) was elected as pope.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_XII
1829 - Walker's Appeal, racial antislavery pamphlet, published in Boston.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Walker_(abolitionist)#Walker.27s_Appeal_.281829.29
1836 - The first of three early season snows brought four inches of snow to Hamilton, NY, and two inches to Ashby MA. (David Ludlum)
1850 - Flogging in US Navy & on merchant vessels abolished.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flogging#Flogging_as_military_punishment
1858 - Donati's comet (discovered by Giovanni Donati, 1826-1873) became the first to be photographed. It was a bright comet that developed a spectacular curved dust tail with two thin gas tails, captured by an English commercial photographer, William Usherwood, using a portrait camera at a low focal ratio. At Harvard, W.C. Bond, attempted an image on a collodion plate the following night, but the comet shows only faintly and no tail can be seen. Bond was subsequently able to evaluate the image on Usherwood's plate. The earliest celestial daguerreotypes were made in 1850-51, though after the Donati comet, no further comet photography took place until 1881, when P.J.C. Janssen and J.W. Draper took the first generally recognized photographs of a comet.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donati%27s_comet
1865 - Elizabeth Anderson (née Garrett, 9 Jun 1836 - 17 Dec 1917) became the first female licensed physician in Britain. The daughter of a Whitechapel paenbroker, she had studied medicine privately after being refused admission to medical schools. On 28 Sep 1865, she was examined orally in medicine, midwifery and medical pathology, and was one of three out of the seven candidates to receive a Final Certificate, entitling her to practice as a qualified physician and surgeon. A year after being licensed, she became a general medical attendant to St. Mary's Dispensary, London, later known as New Hospital, where she instituted medical courses for women. New Hospital was renamed in her honour (1918) as the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Garrett_Anderson
1889 - The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Conference_on_Weights_and_Measures
1893 - Albuquerque, NM, was soaked with 2.25 inches of rain, enough to establish a 24 hour record for that city. (The Weather Channel)
1895 - At a convention in Atlanta, three Baptist groups merged to form the National Baptist Convention. It is today the largest African-American denomination in America and the world.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Baptist_Convention,_USA,_Inc.#Formal_formation
1901 - Prof. R. A. Fessenden applied for a U.S. patent for "Improvements in apparatus for the wireless transmission of electromagnetic wave, said improvements relating more especially to the transmission and reproduction of words or other audible signals." According to Important Events in Radiotelegraphy, a U.S. Dept of Commerce publication (1916), "It appears that in connection with this apparatus there was contemplated the use of an alternating current generator having a frequency of 50,000 per second." Prof. Fessenden was granted a number of United States patents between 1899 and 1905 covering devices used in connection with radiotelegraphy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._A._Fessenden
1906 - US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba#Early_20th_century
1917 - A hurricane hit Pensacola, FL. Winds gusted to 95 mph, and the barometric pressure dipped to 28.50 inches. Winds at Mobile AL gusted to 75 mph. (The Weather Channel)
Lynching victim Will Brown.
1919 Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska, US.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha_Race_Riot_of_1919
1928 - Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fleming
1930 - Lou Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive games
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Gehrig
1832 Cholera Brushed Charles Finney Charles Finney is remembered as one of America's most successful revivalists. As many as 500,000 people were converted to Christ under his preaching. He was also one of America's most controversial revivalists. Although a mild Calvinist in Jonathan Edward's mold, he was accused of being an errant Arminian or even a thoroughly heretical Pelagian. His perfectionist theories were bitterly challenged as unsound. He probably did not believe in original sin. His doctrine of the atonement disagreed with what the church has believed through all history. But he did call men and women to repent of the sins they deliberately committed, the sins they could leave off, and many listened.
In its bare bones, Finney's theology said it is man's duty to get right with God through Christ NOW. We have no excuse not to. To talk of predestination is evasive. All could come to salvation NOW if they would. To ensure that pressure was put on people to do just that, Finney introduced modern revival methods. These included the anxious bench, calls for immediate Christian commitment, prolonged meetings, and the holding of multiple meetings in a week.
Finney was a social force. Women were allowed to pray aloud in his services and to actively engage in the ministry. This appalled many from the older religious traditions. Opposed to slavery, Finney opened Oberlin College, the first American College to graduate a black woman with a B. A. He was a social force because he believed that true salvation proves itself in immediate hard work for Christ. The man who doesn't work to improve his society, as a result of being a Christian, is probably not a Christian.
In 1832, weary of the unsettled life of a revivalist, he accepted the pulpit of the Chatham Street Church in New York. For the first time in his married life, he bought a home of his own. Chatham was a free church, one of the churches which refused to charge pew rents, which typically excluded the poor or relegated them to bad seats.
Finney was to be installed as Chatham's pastor on this day, September 28, 1832. During the service he took ill. It was the cholera season in New York. It soon became apparent he had the disease (it causes severe diarrhea and rapid dehydration). A neighbor, seized with the disease the same night, died by morning. For days Finney's life was in desperate danger. It was months before he regained enough strength to return to the pulpit on a regular basis.
Finney's messages and benevolence attracted many people to his church. The poor were attracted by its rent-free pews. Finney immediately put his converts to work solving social ills. Many benevolent organizations operated out of the Chatham Street Church. Eventually a larger tabernacle had to be built. Finney pastored it until 1837. He died in 1875, 43 years after his nearly deadly bout with cholera.
www.christianity.com/ChurchHistory/11630416/
1934 - The first issue of "The Sword of the Lord" was published. Founded by Baptist evangelist John R. Rice, 39, it became the largest independent Christian weekly for years, and was recognized by liberals as the "voice of fundamentalism." It was the largest independent Christian weekly for many years.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sword_of_the_Lord
1937 - FDR dedicates Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (Oregon)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonneville_Dam
1939 - Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territories_of_Poland_annexed_by_the_Soviet_Union
1939 - Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_in_Germany
1941 - Ted Williams assures his .400 avg on last day with 6 hits
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Williams
1941 SS Patrick Henry, the first of 2,751 Liberty ships built during World War II by the United States, was launched.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_ships
Corpses of inmates from Klooga concentration camp stacked for burning
1944 - Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_28
1951 - Norm Van Brocklin of the Rams passes for NFL-record 554 yards
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_Van_Brocklin
1951 CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
1959 - Explorer VI satellite (launched 7 Aug 1959) revealed an intense radiation belt around Earth and took the first remote imaging TV pictures of Earth meteorological conditions.
1960 - Ted Williams hits his final homer #521
1961 - USN Comdr Forrest S Petersen takes X-15 to 30,720 m
1965 - Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km
1967 - Walter Washington elected 1st mayor of Washington, DC
1968 - Beatles' "Hey Jude," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
1969 - A meteorite fell over Murchison, Australia. Only 100-kg of this meteorite have been found. Classified as a carbonaceous chondrite, type II (CM2), this meteorite is suspected to be of cometary origin due to its high water content (12%). An abundance of amino acids found within this meteorite has led to intense study by researchers as to its origins. More than 92 different amino acids have been identified within the Murchison meteorite to date. Nineteen of these are found on Earth. The remaining amino acids have no apparent terrestrial source.
1969 - Joe Kapp (Minn Vikings) passes for 7 touchdowns vs Balt Colts (52-14)
1973 - The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the September 11 1973 coup d'état in Chile.
1974 - 1st lady Betty Ford undergoes a radical mastectomy
1974 - California Angel Nolan Ryan 3rd no-hitter beats Minn Twin, 4-0
1976 - Muhammad Ali retains heavyweight boxing championship in a close 15-round decision over Ken Norton at Yankee Stadium
1978 - Israeli Knesset endorses Camp David accord
1981 - Joseph Paul Franklin, avowed racist, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 2 black joggers in Salt Lake City
1982 - 1st reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules
1982 - NASA launches Intelsat V
1987 - Thunderstorms produced up to ten inches of rain in southern Kansas and north central Oklahoma overnight. The Chikaskia River rose 2.5 feet above flood stage at Blackwell OK during the day causing flooding in Kay and Grant counties of north central Oklahoma. Early morning thunderstorms in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas produced 3.07 inches of rain in six hours at McAllen. Thunderstorms produced up to six inches of rain in southeastern Texas later in the day. (National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Thunderstorms developing ahead of a cold front in the central U.S. produced severe weather from northern Texas to the Lower Missouri Valley during the late afternoon and evening hours. Hail three inches in diameter was reported at Nolan TX, and wind gusts to 80 mph were reported at Lawrence KS. Thunderstorms drenched downtown Kansas City MO with up to four inches of rain, leaving some cars stranded in water six feet deep. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Bronx Museum for the Arts opens
1988 - LA Dodger Orel Hershiser sets record for consecutive scoreless inns
1989 - Thunderstorms over northeastern Florida drenched Jacksonville with 4.28 inches of rain between midnight and 6 AM EDT. Unseasonably cool weather prevailed in the northeastern U.S. Five cities reported record low temperatures for the date, including Binghamton NY with a reading of 30 degrees. Morning lows were in the 20s in northern New England. Unseasonably mild weather prevailed in the northwestern U.S., with afternoon highs in the upper 70s and 80s. In Oregon, Astoria reported a record high of 83 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - Marvin Gaye gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame
1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
2000 - Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
2008 - SpaceX launches the first ever private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
Births
551 BC Confucius, Chinese philosopher (d. 479)
1809 Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (d. 1899)
1821 Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (d. 1874)
1839 Frances Elizabeth Willard, American educator and temperance leader, in Churchville, New York (d 17 Feb 1898).
As a girl, she felt keenly the unequal status of women. While attending college, she experienced a definite religious conversion. Willard graduated from Northwestern Female College in Evanston, Ill in 1859, a school to which she later returned to teach. Becoming interested in the temperance movement, she volunteered herself in its service and worked for a time with Dwight L. Moody. In 1879 her extreme efforts led to her election as president of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union, a platform she employed to reach out to all women and to press for women's rights as well as helping pass Prohibition.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Willard_(suffragist)
1840 Henry M. MacCracken at Oxford, Ohio. (d 1918) A Presbyterian minister, he became chancellor of the New York University 1891-1910.
dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/archives/maccracken.html
1856 - Edward Herbert Thompson (d 1935) American archaeologist who revealed much about Mayan civilization from his exploration of the city and religious shrine of Chichén Itzá in Yucatán. Cenote is the Spanish equivalent of the Yucatec Maya word for a water-filled limestone sinkhole. In Mexico's northern Yucatán Peninsula, where there are few lakes or streams, cenotes provided a stable supply of water for the ancient Maya people who settled there. The great city of Chichén Itzá was built around a cluster of these natural wells, including the one known as the Cenote of Sacrifice. On 5 Mar 1904, Thompson, began dredging the Cenote of Sacrifice. He verified legends that this was a repository for the precious objects and human victims offered to the gods by the ancient Maya.
1856 Kate Douglas Wiggin, American children's author (d. 1923)
1873 - Julian Lowell Coolidge (d 1954) U.S. mathematician and educator who published numerous works on theoretical mathematics along the lines of the Study-Segre school. Coolidge received a B.A. at Harvard (1895), then in England he graduated (1897) with a B.Sc. from Balliol College Oxford. (It is interesting that this degree from Oxford was in natural science and it was the first natural science degree ever awarded by Oxford.) He taught at Groton School, Conn. (1897-9) where one of his pupils was Franklin D Roosevelt, the future U.S. president. From 1899 he taught at Harvard University. Between 1902 and 1904, he went to Turin to study under Corrado Segre and then to Bonn where he studied under Eduard Study. His Mathematics of the Great Amateurs is perhaps his best-known work.
1877 Albert Young, American welterweight boxer (d. 1940)
1878 Joseph Ruddy, American freestyle swimmer and water polo player (d. 1962)
1881 Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (d. 1950)
1887 Avery Brundage, American athlete and sports official (d. 1975)
1889 Jack Fournier, American baseball player (d. 1973)
1891 Myrtle Gonzalez, American actress (d. 1918)
1899 Alice de Janzé, American heiress (d. 1941)
1900 Joe Falcon, Cajun accordion player (d. 1965)
1901 William S. Paley, American radio and television executive (d. 1990)
1901 Ed Sullivan, American television show host (d. 1974)
1903 Samuel A. Ward (b. 28 Dec 1847), American music publisher. Wrote hymn tune MATERNA for "America the Beautiful."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_A._Ward
1909 Al Capp, American cartoonist (d. 1979)
1915 Ethel Rosenberg, Soviet spy, (d. 1953)
1918 Arnold Stang, American comic actor (d. 2009)
1919 Doris Singleton, American actress (d. 2012)
1923 William Windom, American actor (d. 2012)
1923 Tuli Kupferberg, American counterculture poet, author, cartoonist, pacifist anarchist, publisher and co-founder of the band The Fugs (d. 2010)
1925 - Seymour R. Cray (d 1996) American electronics engineer who pioneered the use of transistors in computers and later developed massive supercomputers to run business and government information networks. He was the preeminent designer of the large, high-speed computers known as supercomputers.
1925 Frank Latimore, American actor (d. 1998)
1926 Jerry Clower, American comedian (d. 1998)
1928 Koko Taylor, American blues musician, popularly known as the "Queen of the Blues" (d. 2009)
1930 Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist
1933 Johnny "Country" Mathis, American country singer (d. 2011)
1937 Rod Roddy, American television announcer (d. 2003)
1938 Ben E. King, American soul singer
1939 Elbridge Bryant, American tenor (The Temptations) (d. 1975)
1939 Stuart Kauffman, American biologist
1942 Marshall Bell, American actor
1942 Edward "Little Buster" Forehand, soul and blues musician (d. 2006)
1943 Warren Lieberfarb, American media executive
1943 J. T. Walsh, American actor (d. 1998)
1944 Marcia Muller, American author
1946 Jeffrey Jones, American actor
1950 Laurie Lewis, American musician
1950 John Sayles, American director and screenwriter
1951 Norton Buffalo, singer-songwriter, country and blues harmonica player, record producer (d. 2009)
1954 Steve Largent, American football player and U.S. Congressman
1964 Janeane Garofalo, American actress and comedian
1966 Maria Canals Barrera, American actress, singer
1966 Ginger Fish, American musician (Marilyn Manson)
1966 Leilani Sarelle, American Actress
1967 Mira Sorvino, American actress
1970 Mike DeJean, American baseball player
1971 Joseph Arthur, American singer-songwriter
1971 A. J. Croce, American singer-songwriter and piano player
1982 Emeka Okafor, American basketball player
1982 St. Vincent, American multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter
1987 Hilary Duff, American actress and singer
2000 Frankie Jonas, American actor
Deaths
48 BC – Pompey the Great, Roman general and politician (b. 106 BC)
235 Saint Pontianus, bishop of Rome.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pontian
929 (or 935) King Wenceslas, ruler and patron saint of Czechoslovakia, (b. ca. 907).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Wenceslas
1891 Herman Melville, American novelist (b 1819)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville
1895 - Louis Pasteur (b 1822) French chemist and microbiologist born in Dole. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of diseases. His discoveries reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and he created the first vaccine for rabies and anthrax. His experiments supported the germ theory of disease. He was best known to the general public for inventing a method to stop milk and wine from causing sickness, a process that came to be called pasteurization. He is regarded as one of the three main founders of microbiology, together with Ferdinand Cohn and Robert Koch. Pasteur also made many discoveries in the field of chemistry, most notably the molecular basis for the asymmetry of certain crystals. His body lies beneath the Institute Pasteur in Paris in a spectacular vault covered in depictions of his accomplishments in Byzantine mosaics.
1914 Richard Sears, American businessman (b. 1863)
1918 Freddie Stowers, American soldier (b. 1896)
1938 - Charles Edgar Duryea (b 1861) American inventor who with his brother J. Frank Duryea built the first automobile with multiple copies manufactured in the U.S. On 28 Nov 1895, Frank drove their car to win $2,000 in the first American Automobile Race in Chicago, sponsored by the Chicago Times-Herald. They travelled 54 miles from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois and back, in just over 10 hours. In 1896, they set up the Duryea Motor Wagon Co. in Springfield, Mass. to manufacture multiple units of a gasoline-powered vehicle. Their production of 13 identical machines that year is considered to be the first serial production of American cars, earning them recognition as "Fathers of the American Automobile Industry".
1943 Sam Ruben, American chemist (b. 1913)
1949 Chrysanthus, Greek orthodox Archbishop of Athens (b. 1881)
1953 - Edwin Hubble (b 1889) American astronomer, born in Marshfield, Mo., who is considered the founder of extragalactic astronomy and who provided the first evidence of the expansion of the universe. In 1923-5 he identified Cepheid variables in "spiral nebulae" M31 and M33 and proved conclusively that they are outside the Galaxy. His investigation of these objects, which he called extragalactic nebulae and which astronomers today call galaxies, led to his now-standard classification system of elliptical, spiral, and irregular galaxies, and to proof that they are distributed uniformly out to great distances. Hubble measured distances to galaxies and their redshifts, and in 1929 he published the velocity-distance relation which is the basis of modern cosmology.
1954 - George Harrison Shull (b 1874) American botanist and geneticist known as the father of hybrid corn (maize). A leader in developing the multiple allele concept of genes, Shull's work with maize led him to develop the first hybrid corn, ancestor of today's sweet corn and a boon to commercial farmers. Shull’s approach was to study the effects of inbreeding and subsequent cross-fertilization in corn. In 1909, he published A Pure Line Method of Corn Breedingin which he outlined – with remarkable insight – the basics of breeding hybrid corn. As a result of his researches, corn yields per acre were increased 25 to 50 percent. He developed a method of corn breeding that made possible the production of seed capable of thriving under various soil and climatic conditions.
1956 William Edward Boeing, American aviation manufacturer (b. 1881)
1964 Harpo Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1888)
1970 John Dos Passos, American novelist (b. 1896)
1978 Pope John Paul I (b 17 Oct 1912), 262nd pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_I
1982 Mabel Albertson, American actress (b. 1901)
1987 - Willard Harrison Bennett (b 1903) American physicist who discovered (1934) the pinch effect, an electromagnetic process that may offer a way to magnetically confine a plasma at temperatures high enough for controlled nuclear fusion reactions to occur. He proposed (1936) the tandem Van de Graaff accelerator, which later became widely used in nuclear research. He invented a radio-frequency mass spectrometer, developed in 1950. Since it required no heavy magnet, it was the first launched into space to measure the masses of atoms. Sputnik III carried the first R-F mass spectrometer into space. It was the only space instrument used by the Russians and credited to an American inventor in their own Russian-language publications.
1991 Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1926)
1993 Peter De Vries, American novelist (b. 1910)
1993 Alexander A. Drabik, American soldier (b. 1910)
1994 Harry Saltzman, American film producer (b. 1915)
2000 Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)
2002 Patsy Mink, American politician (b. 1927)
2003 Althea Gibson, American tennis player (b. 1927)
2003 Elia Kazan, Greek-born American film director (b. 1909)
2004 Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (b. 1924)
2004 Scott Muni, American disc jockey (b. 1930)
2005 Constance Baker Motley, American judge (b. 1921)
2007 Wally Parks, American car racing executive (b. 1913)
2010 Dolores Wilson, American opera singer (b. 1928)
Holidays and observances
Christian Feast Day:
Aaron of Auxerre
Annemund
Conval
Eustochium
Exuperius
Faustus of Riez
Leoba
Lorenzo Ruiz
Paternus of Auch
Wenceslas
September 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Venerable Chariton the Confessor, abbot, of Palestine (350)
Martyrdom of Blessed Wenceslas I of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs (935)
Prophet Baruch (11th century B.C.)
Martyrs Alexander, Alphius, Zosimas, Mark, Nicon, Neon, Heliodorus, and 24 others in Pisidia and Phrygia (4th century)
Saint Alcison, bishop of Nicopolis (Preveza) in Epirus (561)
Saint Leoba, abbess of Tauberbischofsheim, English missionary to Germany (779)
Saint Auxentius the Alaman, Wonderworker of Cyprus (12th c.)
Sts. Cyril, schemamonk, and Maria, schemanun (ca. 1337), parents of St. Sergius of Radonezh
Saint Herodion of Iloezersk, abbot (1541)
Saint Chariton, monk, of Syanzhemsk in Vologda (1509)
Martyr Eustace of Rome
Cyriacos the Hermit of Palestine (556)
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_28
www.todayinsci.com/9/9_28.htm
www.scopesys.com/cgi-bin/today2.cgi
www.weatherforyou.com/cgi-bin/weather_history/today2S.pl
www.lutheranhistory.org/history/tih0928.htm
www.christianity.com/HistoryByDay/0928/
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