Today is Friday, September 28, the 270th day of 2007. There are 95 days left in the year.
1066 _ William the Conqueror lands in England
1542 _ Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California at San Diego Bay
1781 _ The Siege of Yorktown begins, last battle of the Revolutionary War
1867 _ Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario
1906 _ U.S. troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909
1912 _ ``Kiche Maru" sinks off Japan, killing 1,000
1914 _ German forces move into Antwerp Belgium (WWI)
1922 _ Mussolini marches on Rome
1939 _ The Soviet-German treaty agrees on the fourth partition of Poland (WWII) and gives Lithuania to the USSR
1958 _ Guinea votes for independence from France
1972 _ Japan and Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations
1978 _ Israeli Knesset endorses the Camp David accord