GMT 9/28/2016

This Day In History:

1542 – Navigator Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, United States.

1779 – American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.

1781 – American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.

1892 – The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.

1924 – First round-the-world flight completed.

1928 – Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.

1951 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.

2008 – SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.