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On This Day

September 28

1968
First North American Soccer League championship: The Atlanta chiefs defeat the San Diego Toros.

1955
First World Series game televised in color: Between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers.

1951
The Day the Earth Stood Still: The science-fiction classic is released. "Klaatu barada nikto."

1920
Black Sox Scandal: Eight members of the Chicago White Sox are indicted for accepting bribes to throw the World Series. They were banned from baseball even though they were eventually acquitted.

1904
"You can't do that on Fifth Ave," a New York City policeman tells a woman as she is arrested for smoking a cigarette in an open automobile.

1850
Flogging abolished: The U.S. abolishes flogging in the Navy and Merchant Marine.

1542
First Europeans to reach the Pacific coast: Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo lands at San Diego Bay.

1934
Brigitte Bardot (Camille Javal), French actress, "Sex Kitten." Film: And God Created Woman (1957).

1926     d. 1998
Jerry Clower, American comedian, with many jokes about the Ledbetter family.

1923
William Windom, American actor. TV: Murder, She Wrote (Dr. Seth Hazlitt).

1923
Marcello Mastroianni (Marcello Mastrojanni), Italian actor. Film: La Dolce Vita (1959), 8½ (1963), and Divorce Italian Style (1961).

1916     d. 1977
Peter Finch (William Mitchell), British Oscar-winning actor. Film: Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971, British Film Academy Award) and Network (1976, Oscar - the first posthumously-awarded Oscar).

1915     d. 1953
Ethel Rosenberg, American traitor, she and her husband Julius became the first U.S. citizens executed for treason during peace time. They had been convicted of selling top secret information to the Soviets.

1913     d. 1990
Alice Marble, American tennis player, winner of four U.S. amateur singles titles.

1909     d. 1979
Al Capp (Alfred Gerald Caplin), American cartoonist, creator of Li'l Abner (1934).

1901     d. 1974
Ed Sullivan, American Broadway columnist, TV personality, host of a "Really big shew" for 23 years.

1856     d. 1923
Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author. Writings: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903).

1989     b. 1917
Ferdinand Edralin Marcos, ousted leader of the Philippines.

1978     b. 1912
John Paul I (Albino Luciani), 263rd Pope (Aug. - Sept. 1978), had been Pope for only 34 days when he died of a heart attack.

1973     b. 1902
Mantan Moreland, American actor. Film: The Charlie Chan movies (Chan's chauffeur Birmingham Brown).

1964     b. 1893
Harpo Marx (Adolph Marx), American comedian, the nonspeaking, harp-playing, horn blowing, Marx Brother.

1953     b. 1889
Edwin Powell Hubble, American astronomer, noted for his investigations of nebulae and for creating and developing the concepts of an expanding universe.

1938     b. 1861
Charles Edgar Duryea, American inventor, "Father of the Automobile." He and his brother Frank formed the first U.S. automobile company, Duryea Motor Wagon Co. (1895), selling their first car in 1896.

1914     b. 1863
Richard Warren Sears, American businessman, co-founded Sears, Roebuck and Co.

1895     b. 1822
Louis Pasteur, French chemist, bacteriologist, discovered a vaccination for rabies (1885) and food preservation by heating (pasteurization).

1891     b. 1819
Herman Melville, American author. Writings: Moby-Dick (1851).

235     b. ????
Saint Pontian, Italian religious leader, 18th Pope (230-235).

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