TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 28, the 271st day of 2021. There are 94 days left in the year.

On this date:

1787: The Congress of the Confederation voted to send the just-completed Constitution of the United States to state legislatures for their approval.

1920: Eight members of the Chicago White Sox were indicted for allegedly throwing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. (All were acquitted at trial, but all eight were banned from the game for life.)

1924: Three U.S. Army planes landed in Seattle, having completed the first roundthe-world trip by air in 175 days.

1928: Scottish medical researcher Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, the first effective antibiotic.

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.

1962: A federal appeals court found Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett in civil contempt for blocking the admission of James Meredith, a Black student, to the University of Mississippi. (Federal marshals escorted Meredith onto the campus two days later.)

1991: Jazz great Miles Davis died in Santa

Monica, Calif., at age 65.

1995: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat signed an accord at the White House ending Israel’s military occupation of West Bank cities and laying the foundation for a Palestinian state.

2000: Capping a 12-year battle, the government approved use of the abortion pill RU-486.

2019: Voters in Afghanistan went to the polls to elect a president for the fourth time since a U.S.-led coalition ousted the Taliban regime in 2001; the vote was marred by violence, Taliban threats and widespread allegations of mismanagement. (After a series of delays, the country’s independent election commission announced months later that Ashraf Ghani had won a second term as president.)