SEPTEMBER 28
1941:Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox boosts his batting average to .406
during a double-header against the Philadelphia Athletics; he is the
last Major League Baseball player to end the season with a batting average over .400.
1542: Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, a Portuguese navigator sailing
for Spain, becomes the first European explorer to reach California when
he arrives in present-day San Diego Bay, in search of a legendary water
route across the North American continent.
1928: Alexander Fleming observes the antibacterial properties
of a fungus growing in petri dishes at St. Mary's Hospital in London.
That fungus will be the source of penicillin, one of the most important antibiotics in modern medicine.
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