Today in HistorySeptember 28
48 BC : On landing in Egypt, Pompey is
murdered on the orders of Ptolemy.
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 : 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 tortured and murdered by the Taliban.
2008 : SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, Falcon 1.
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