Today is Saturday, September twenty eighth, the 272nd day of 2024. There are 94 days left within the yr.
Today in history:
On September 28, 1928, Scottish medical researcher Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, the primary effective antibiotic.
Also on this date:
In 1781, American forces within the Revolutionary War, supported by a French fleet, began the successful siege of Yorktown, Virginia.
In 1941, Ted Williams became the youngest American League baseball player to bat over .400 for a season, batting .406 for the Boston Red Sox.
In 1962, a federal appeals court convicted Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett of civil contempt for blocking the admission of James Meredith, a black student, to the University of Mississippi.
In 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat signed an agreement on the White House that ended Israel's military occupation of West Bank cities and laid the muse for a Palestinian state.
In 2000, concluding a 12-year battle, the U.S. government approved the usage of the abortion pill RU-486.
The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic reached a million worldwide in 2020, in accordance with a count by Johns Hopkins University.
In 2022, Hurricane Ian barreled toward the coast of southwest Florida as a large Category 4 storm. About 2.5 million people were ordered to evacuate before the storm reached the coast with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph (241 km/h).
Today's birthdays:
- Actress Brigitte Bardot is 90.
- Filmmaker John Sayles is 74.
- Football Hall of Famer Steve Largent is 70.
- Zydeco musician CJ Chenier (sheh-NEER') is 67.
- Hockey Hall of Famer Grant Fuhr is 62.
- Actress and comedian Janeane Garofalo (juh-NEEN' guh-RAH'-fuh-loh) is 60.
- Actress Maria Canals-Barrera is 58.
- Actress Mira Sorvino is 57.
- Actress Naomi Watts is 56.
- Olympic gold medal swimmer Lenny Krayzelburg is 49 years old.
- Rapper Jeezy is 47.
- Golf Hall of Famer Se Ri Pak is 47.
- Pop-rock singer St. Vincent is 42.
- Actress Hilary Duff is 37.
- Boxer Terence “Bud” Crawford is 37.
- Tennis player Marin Čilić is 36.
- Actor Keir Gilchrist is 32.
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