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Today in History: September 28

0048BC
Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt

1066
William, Duke of Normandy, soon to be known as William the Conqueror invades England.

1106
King Henry of England defeats his brother Robert at the Battle of Tinchebrai and reunites England and Normandy.

1904
A woman is placed under arrest for smoking a cigarette on New York's Fifth Avenue.

1965
Six years after he led the Cuban Revolution and four years after the failed U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs Invasion, Fidel Castro announces that any Cuban who wished to leave the island was free to do so. With Cuban forces no longer blocking civilians from leaving, a massive wave of emigration ensued, bringing hundreds of thousands of Cuban immigrants to Florida.

2016
Hurricane Matthew forms near the Windward Islands, will go on to kill over 1000 in Haiti, the Caribbean and the US

2019
Elon Musk unveils SpaceX spacecraft Starship, designed to travel to Mars and the solar system and land back on earth

2020
COVID-19 recorded global death toll passes 1 million with over 33 million known cases (Johns Hopkins)

2021
Russia reports its highest daily COVID-19 death toll of 852 amid its third wave of infections with less than half of the population vaccinated with one dose

2022
Hurricane Ian makes landfall as a high-end category 4 hurricane near Cayo Costa, Florida with winds at 150mph (National Hurricane Center), will go on to kill at least 148 people in FloridaS

Today in History: Born on September 28
1901
Ed Sullivan, television host.

1909
Al Capp, cartoonist who created the "Li'l Abner" comic strip.

1934
Brigitte Bardot, French actress one of the leading sex symbols of the 20th Century


JOTD
A man met a beautiful girl and he decided he wanted to marry her right away. She protested, “But we don’t know anything about each other.” He replied, “That’s all right; we’ll learn about each other as we go along.”

So she consented and they were married, and they went on honeymoon to a very nice resort.

One morning, they were lying by the pool when he got up off his towel, climbed up to the 30-foot high board and did a two-and-a-half-tuck gainer, entering the water perfectly, almost without a ripple. This was followed by three rotations in jack-knife position before he again straightened out and cut the water like a knife. After a few more demonstrations, he came back and lay down on his towel.

She said, “That was incredible."

He said, “I used to be an Olympic diving champion. You see, I told you we’d learn more about ourselves as we went along.”

So she got up, jumped in the pool and started doing laps. She was moving so fast that the ripples from her pushing off at one end of the pool would hardly be gone before she was already touching the other end of the pool. After about thirty laps, completed in mere minutes, she climbed back out and lay down on her towel, barely breathing hard.

He said, “That was incredible! Were you an Olympic endurance swimmer?”

“No,” she said, “I was a prostitute in Venice and I worked both sides of the canal."