September 28<\/p>\n
1066 – England was invaded by William the Conqueror who claimed the English throne.<\/p>\n
1542 – San Diego, CA, was discovered by Portuguese navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo.<\/p>\n
1781 – During the Revolutionary War, American forces began the siege on Yorktown, VA.<\/p>\n
1787 – The U.S. Congress voted to send the new Constitution of the United States to the state legislatures for their approval.<\/p>\n
1789 – In the U.S., the first Federal Congress passed a resolution that asked President George Washington to recommend to the nation a day of thanksgiving. Several days later Washington issued a proclamation that named Thursday, November 26, 1789 as a “Day of Publick Thanksgivin.” The fixed-date for Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday of November, was established on December 26, 1941.<\/p>\n
1850 – U.S. President Millard Fillmore named Brigham Young the first governor of the Utah territory. In 1857, U.S. President James Buchanan removed Young from the position.<\/p>\n
1892 – The first nighttime football game in the U.S. took place under electric lights. The game was between the Mansfield State Normal School and the Wyoming Seminary.<\/p>\n
1915 – The British defeated the Turks in Mesopotamia at Kut-el-Amara.<\/p>\n
1924 – The first around-the-world flight was completed by two U.S. Army planes when they landed in Seattle, WA. The trip took 175 days.<\/p>\n
1939 – During World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed upon a plan on the division of Poland.<\/p>\n
1955 – The World Series was televised in color for the first time. The game was between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers.<\/p>\n
1990 – The Game Boy handheld video game device was released in Europe.<\/p>\n
1991 – In response to U.S. President Bush’s reduction of U.S. nuclear arms Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev promised to reciprocate.<\/p>\n
1995 – Yasser Arafat of the PLO and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed an accord that transferred control of the West Bank.<\/p>\n
1997 – The 103rd convention of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) was held in New York City, NY. The official debut of the DVD format was featured.<\/p>\n
2000 – The U.S. Federal Drug Administration approved the use of RU-486 in the United States. The pill is used to induce an abortion.<\/p>\n
2004 – The U.S. Federal Reserve and the U.S. Secret Service introduced the first newly redesigned $50 bill.<\/p>\n
2004 – Nate Olive and Sarah Jones arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border to complete the first known continuous hike of the 1,800-mile trail down the U.S. Pacific Coast. They started the trek on June 8.<\/p>\n
2009 – The iTunes Music Store reached 2 billion applications downloaded.<\/p>\n
Today’s Birthdays<\/strong><\/p>\n Confucius 551 B.C. – Teacher and philosopher<\/p>\n Ed Sullivan 1902<\/p>\n Janeane Garofalo 1964<\/p>\n Moon Unit Zappa 1967<\/p>\n Naomi Watts 1968<\/p>\n Mira Sorvino 1967<\/p>\n Sean Levert (Levert) 1968<\/p>\n Mandy Barnett 1975<\/p>\n Hilary Duff 1987<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 28 1066 – England was invaded by William the Conqueror who claimed the English throne. 1542 – San Diego, CA, was discovered by Portuguese… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Today In History","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6132],"tags":[8124,8121,106,8120,8127,8123,8126,8125,8122,8118,6131,8117,8119],"class_list":["post-22537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-confucius","tag-dvd","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-game-boy","tag-hilary-duff","tag-itunes","tag-mira-sorvino","tag-moon-unit-zappa","tag-ru-486","tag-san-diego","tag-today-in-history","tag-william-the-conqueror","tag-yorktown"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22537"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22541,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22537\/revisions\/22541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}