A bit of September 28th history…
48 BC - Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt
1066 - William the Conqueror invades England, landing in Sussex
1858 - Donati’s comet becomes 1st to be photographed
1887 - The Yellow River in China floods, killing between 900,000 and 2 million people; one of the deadliest natural disasters in history (pictured)
1920 - Black Sox Scandal: 8 White Sox players indicted for throwing the 1919 World Series
1980 - Carl Sagan’s 13 part “Cosmos” premiers on PBS
1982 - 1st reports appear of deaths from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules
1987 - “Star Trek: The Next Generation” debuts
2008 - SpaceX launches the 1st ever private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit
2019 - Elon Musk unveils SpaceX spacecraft Starship, designed to travel to Mars and land back on Earth (pictured below)
A bit of September 28th history… 48 BC - Pompey the Great is...