Sunday, September 28, 2014

History for September 28

History for September 28 - On-This-Day.com
Confucius 551 B.C. - Teacher and philosopher, Georges Clemenceau (France) 1841, Ed Sullivan 1902 


Alfred Gerald Caplin (Al Capp) 1909, Arnold Stang 1925, Brigitte Bardot 1934 


1781 - During the Revolutionary War, American forces began the siege on Yorktown, VA


1850 - The U.S. Navy abolished flogging as a form of punishment. 


1939 - During World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed upon a plan on the division of Poland. 


1961 - "Dr. Kildare" premiered on NBC-TV. 


1961 - "Hazel" premiered on NBC-TV. 


1974 - First Lady Betty Ford underwent a mastectomy to remove a lump in her breast. 


1978 - Heavy fighting occurred in Lebanon between Syrian peacekeeping troops and Lebanese Christian militiamen. 


1991 - In response to U.S. President Bush's reduction of U.S. nuclear arms Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev promised to reciprocate. 


1995 - Yasser Arafat of the PLO and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed an accord that transferred control of the West Bank. 


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. 

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