Today is Wednesday, September 28, the 271st day of 2011. There are 94 days left in the year.
1066 ― William the Conqueror lands in England
1542 ― Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay
1858 ― Donati's comet becomes the first to be photographed
1919 ― Fastest major league game (51 minutes), Giants beat Phillies 6-1
1922 ― Mussolini marches on Rome
1939 ― Soviet-German treaty agree on fourth partition of Poland (WW II) & gives Lithuania to the USSR
1968 ― Beatles' ``Hey Jude," single goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for nine weeks
1972 ― Japan and Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations
1982 ― First reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules
1986 ― Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City)