Tuesday, September 28, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

SEPTEMBER 28
1974:Weeks after moving into the White House, first lady Betty Ford undergoes a radical mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland, focusing national attention on breast cancer awareness.

1066: William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy, lands on the southeast coast of England, beginning the Norman conquest of England. William will defeat King Harold II at the Battle of Hastings on Oct. 14, ending hundreds of years of Anglo-Saxon rule.

1928: Alexander Fleming notices a mold growing in his laboratory; he later names the antibiotic substance it secretes “penicillin.”

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