FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Today is Friday, September 28, the 271st day of 2018. There are 94 days left in the year.

1542 — Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay

1781 — Siege of Yorktown begins, last battle of the Revolutionary War

1787 — Congress sends Constitution to state legislatures for their approval

1829 — Walker’s Appeal, racial antislavery pamphlet, published in Boston

1850 — Flogging in U.S. Navy & on merchant vessels abolished

1858 — Donati’s comet becomes the 1st to be photographed

1879 — Sydney Australia innaugurates steam motor tram route

1906 — U.S. troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909

1912 — "Kiche Maru" sinks off Japan, killing 1,000