09-27-2012, 07:26 PM
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September 28th
1066 ~ William the Conqueror invaded England, landing at Pevensey, Sussex.
1725 ~ Birthday of Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer, founded Guinness.
1915 ~ Birthday of Ethel Rosenberg, Spy.
1924 ~ The first round-the-world flight completed. It took 175 days.
1928 ~ Alexander Fleming discovered what later became known as penicillin, for which he shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
1953 ~ Death of Edwin Hubble, Astronomer.
1976 ~ Stevie Wonder released Songs in the Key of Life.
1995 ~ Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat signed an accord to transfer much of the West Bank to the control of its Arab residents.
1988 ~ Death of Charles Addams, Cartoonist, creator of The Adams Family.
2000 ~ Death of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada.
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