TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

On this day in history:

929 - Good King Wenceslas is killed by his brother.

1066 - England was invaded by William the Conqueror who claimed the English throne.

1861 - The cache buried beneath the ‘Dig’ Tree, revealing the notes and journals of Burke and Wills, is dug up by Howitt’s rescue party.

1915 - The British defeated the Turks in Mesopotamia at Kut-el-Amara.

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

1950 - The United Nations admitted Indonesia.

1972 - Communist China and Japan agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations.

1973 - The first performance takes place in the new Sydney Opera House.

1978 - Pope John Paul I is found dead, with a copy of a devotional he was reading in his hands.

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

1990 - The Game Boy handheld video game device was released in Europe.

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

Birthdays

Confucius 551 B.C. - Teacher and philosopher

Georges Clemenceau (France) 1841

Kate Smith-Wiggin 1856 Elmer Rice 1892 William S. Paley 1901 Ed Sullivan 1902

Alfred Gerald Caplin (Al Capp) 1909

Peter Finch 1916 William Windom 1923 Marcello Mastroianni 1924 Arnold Stang 1925

Jerry Clower 1926 Tommy Collins 1930 Brigitte Bardot 1934 Koko Taylor 1935

Bruce Crampton 1935 Ben E. King 1938 Charley Taylor 1941 Grant Jackson 1942

Joel Higgins 1943

Nick St. Nicholas (Steppenwolf) 1943 Helen Shapiro 1946 Jeffrey Jones 1947