September 28th in History
September 28th
1066 William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, lands at Pevensey Bay in Sussex, beginning the Norman Conquest of England.
1781 9,000 American and 7,000 French troops begin the Siege of Yorktown.
1785 Napoléon Bonaparte, aged 16, graduates from the elite École Militaire in Paris, ranking a lowly 42nd in a class of 51.
1839 British Association expedition to Antarctica ships Erebus and Terror set sail from England to attempt to locate the magnetic South Pole.
1850 The US Navy abolishes flogging as a punishment.
1872 Ranald "Three Fingers" Mackenzie destroys a Kwahadi-Comanche village in Texas, killing 23 men and taking 120 women and children prisoner.
1884 Michael Marks, a Polish immigrant, and Yorkshireman Tom Spencer opened their Penny Bazaar in Leeds, setting the foundations for the Marks and Spencer chain.
( I’ve got some M+S food being delivered later).
On 28th September 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin, the world’s first antibiotic.
One of Flemming's research students was Merlin Pryce from the village of Troedyrhiw near Merthyr Tydfil and according to reports, it was Price, who whilst tidying up laboratory, first noticed the now famous Petri dish containing Staphylococci culture that had been destroyed by fungus.
On 28th September 1935, Swansea RFC defeated the New Zealand All Blacks 11-3, thus becoming the first ever club side to beat them.
Jack Manchester, the New Zealand captain, was quoted as saying “tell them back home we were beaten by all means, but please, not by a couple of school kids”, a referrence to half-backs Haydn Tanner and Willie Davies, who were at the time, still schoolboys at Gowerton grammar.
28 Sep 1965
The Rolling Stones played the first of two nights at the Capitol Theatre, Cardiff, Wales. During the 1960s The Capitol Theatre saw all the major acts of the era performing here including The Beatles and The Kinks.
Long since demolished it’s now the site of a shopping mall.
1966: Radio Essex owner Roy Bates is issued with a summons for illegal broadcasting from Knock John Tower, an ex-Navy fort in the Thames Estuary.
1066 William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, lands at Pevensey Bay in Sussex, beginning the Norman Conquest of England.
1781 9,000 American and 7,000 French troops begin the Siege of Yorktown.
1785 Napoléon Bonaparte, aged 16, graduates from the elite École Militaire in Paris, ranking a lowly 42nd in a class of 51.
1839 British Association expedition to Antarctica ships Erebus and Terror set sail from England to attempt to locate the magnetic South Pole.
1850 The US Navy abolishes flogging as a punishment.
1872 Ranald "Three Fingers" Mackenzie destroys a Kwahadi-Comanche village in Texas, killing 23 men and taking 120 women and children prisoner.
1884 Michael Marks, a Polish immigrant, and Yorkshireman Tom Spencer opened their Penny Bazaar in Leeds, setting the foundations for the Marks and Spencer chain.
( I’ve got some M+S food being delivered later).
On 28th September 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin, the world’s first antibiotic.
One of Flemming's research students was Merlin Pryce from the village of Troedyrhiw near Merthyr Tydfil and according to reports, it was Price, who whilst tidying up laboratory, first noticed the now famous Petri dish containing Staphylococci culture that had been destroyed by fungus.
On 28th September 1935, Swansea RFC defeated the New Zealand All Blacks 11-3, thus becoming the first ever club side to beat them.
Jack Manchester, the New Zealand captain, was quoted as saying “tell them back home we were beaten by all means, but please, not by a couple of school kids”, a referrence to half-backs Haydn Tanner and Willie Davies, who were at the time, still schoolboys at Gowerton grammar.
28 Sep 1965
The Rolling Stones played the first of two nights at the Capitol Theatre, Cardiff, Wales. During the 1960s The Capitol Theatre saw all the major acts of the era performing here including The Beatles and The Kinks.
Long since demolished it’s now the site of a shopping mall.
1966: Radio Essex owner Roy Bates is issued with a summons for illegal broadcasting from Knock John Tower, an ex-Navy fort in the Thames Estuary.
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