September 28
Today in America's Present Past
1542 | Explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo is the first European to sail into San Diego Bay, naming it San Miguel.
1701 | Maryland legalizes divorce.
1778 | War of Independence: British commit the Baylor Massacre.
1779 | Congress: Samuel Huntington was elected second president of the Continental Congress.
1781 | War of Independence: Siege of Yorktown begins.
1789 | Founder and American Flag designer Francis Hopkins was born.
1796 | Activist David Walker was born.
1829 | Civil Rights: Walker’s Appeal was published.
1839 | Activist Frances Willard was born.
1810 | John Archer died.
1833 | First ordained African-American minister Lemuel Haynes died.
1850 | U.S. Navy abolishes flogging as a punishment.
1856 | Archeologist Edward Herbert Thompson was born.
1868 | Civil War: Opelousas massacre.
1874 | Indian Wars: America’s victory in the Comanche War.
1879 | Journalist Nathan Cook Meeker died.
1887 | Entrepreneur Avery Brundage was born in Detroit, Michigan.
1891 | Novelist Herman Melville died.
1892 | Novelist Elmer Rice was born.
1895 | Architect Wallace Harrison was born.
1901 | Journalist Ed Sullivan was born.
1914 | Entrepreneur Richard Warren Sears died.
1915 | Communist traitor Ethel Rosenberg was born.
1919 | Musician Margaret Johnson was born.
1920 | Eight Chicago White Sox baseball players are indicted for fixing the 1919 World Series.
1922 | Actor James Cagney wed Frances Vernon.
1930 | Baseball’s Lou Gehrig’s errorless streak ends at 885 games.
1930 | Entrepreneur Daniel Guggenheim died.
1930 | Entertainer Johnny “Country” Mathis was born.
1938 | Inventor Charles Duryea died.
1940 | Activist Joe Tom Easley was born.
1953 | Astronomer Edwin Hubble died.
1956 | Entrepreneur William Boeing died.
1964 | Actress Janeane Garofalo was born.
1964 | Actor Harpo Marx died.
1970 | Author and poet John dos Passos died.
1991 | Musician Miles Davis died.
1987 | TV: ”Star Trek: The Next Generation” debuted.
1987 | Actress Hilary Duff was born.
2003 | Director Elia Kazan died.
2008 | SpaceX launches its first private spacecraft, Falcon 1, into orbit.
2021 | Film: “No Time to Die” debuted.
2020 | Musician Coolio died.
2024 | Entertainer Kris Kristofferson died.