TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS FRIDAY, SEPT. 28, the 271st day of 2018. There are 94 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY:
On this date in 1787, the Congress of the Confederation voted to send the justcompleted Constitution of the United States to state legislatures for their approval.
In 1542, Portuguese navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo arrived at presentday San Diego.
In 1781, American forces in the Revolutionary War, backed by a French fleet, began their successful siege of Yorktown, Va.
In 1892, the first nighttime football game took place in Mansfield, Pa., as teams from Mansfield State Normal and Wyoming Seminary played under electric lights to a scoreless tie.
In 1928, Scottish medical researcher Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, the first effective antibiotic.
In 1939, during World War II, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a treaty calling for the partitioning of Poland, which the two countries had invaded.
In 1964, comedian Harpo Marx, 75, died in Los Angeles.
In 1976, Muhammad Ali kept his world heavyweight boxing championship with a close 15-round decision over Ken Norton at New York’s Yankee Stadium. In 1989, deposed Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos died in exile in Hawaii at age 72.
In 1991, jazz great Miles Davis died in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 65.
In 1993, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton went to Capitol Hill to begin selling the administration’s health care plan to Congress.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Actress Brigitte Bardot is 84. Actor Joel Higgins is 75. Singer Helen Shapiro is 72. Movie writerdirector-actor John Sayles is 68. Rock musician George Lynch is 64. Zydeco singer-musician C.J. Chenier is 61. Actor Steve Hytner is 59. Actress-comedian Janeane Garofalo is 54. Country singer Matt King is 52. Actress Mira Sorvino and TV personality/singer Moon Zappa are 51. Actress-model Carre Otis and actress Naomi Watts are 50. Country musician Chuck Crawford is 45. Country singer Mandy Barnett is 43. Rapper Young Jeezy and World Golf Hall of Famer Se Ri Pak are 41. Actor Peter Cambor is 40. Writer-producer-directoractor Bam Margera is 39. Actresses Melissa Claire Egan and Jerrika Hinton, and neo-soul musician Luke Mossman (Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats ) are 37. Pop-rock singer St. Vincent is 36. Rock musician Daniel Platzman (Imagine Dragons) is 32. Actress Hilary Duff is 31. Actor Keir Gilchrist is 26.