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