September 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. | |
1959 | Explorer VI, the U.S. satellite, takes the first video pictures of earth. |
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