Historical events - September 28

1924: First Earth orbit completed by the U. S. Army Air Service in four airplanes.

1928: Sir Alexander Fleming found certain types of bacteria growing in a laboratory. This led to the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin.

1939: WWII- Warsaw surrendered to Nazi Germany.

1950: Indonesia joined the United Nations.

1958: France adopted a new constitution.

1960: Mali and Senegal joined the United Nations.

2002: Salman Khan’s white Toyota Land Cruiser crashed in Bandra, killing one and injuring four. Salman Khan’s blood samples were taken. Arrested by police and released on bail.

2008: Falcon 1 became the first privately-developed liquid-fuel launch vehicle to go into orbit around the Earth.

 

Famous Birthdays – September 28

1803: Prosper Merimee, French novelist, playwright, historian, and archaeologist.

1836: Thomas Crapper, an English businessman, and plumber. Crapper held nine patents, three of them for water closet improvements such as the floating ballcock.

1867: Kichiro Hiranuma, Japanese Prime Minister.

1895: Gurram Jashuva, Indian-Telugu poet.

1907: Bhagat Singh, Indian revolutionary.

1909: P. Jayaraj, Veteran Indian film actor.

1925: Seymour Cray, the American computer scientist.

1929: Lata Mangeshkar, an Indian playback singer. She is one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India.

1947: Sheikh Hasina, the 10th Prime Minister of Bangladesh.

1949: R. M. Lodha, a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India.

1953: Mahesh Kothare, Indian actor, film director, and producer of Marathi and Hindi films.

1982: Abhinav Bindra, the first Indian to win an individual gold medal at the Olympics.

1982: Ranbir Kapoor, Indian film actor.

Death Anniversaries – September 28

1895: Louis Pasteur, a French chemist who invented a vaccine against rabies or hydrophobia.

1935: William Kennedy Dickson, a Scottish inventor, inventor of the kinetoscope.

1953: Edwin Hubble, American astronomer.

1956: William Boeing, American aviation pioneer, founder of Boeing Airlines.

1958: Tristao de Braganza Cunha, a prominent Indian nationalist and anti-colonial activist.

1970: Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt’s second president.

1981: Romulo Betancourt, Venezuelan President.

1991: Miles Davis, American jazz composer.

1994: K. A. Thangavelu, Indian film actor, and comedian.

2012 – Brajesh Mishra, Indian politician, and diplomat, 1st Indian National Security Advisor.