What happened on 28 September?

13 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1928 Discovery of penicillin Alexander Fleming notices that mould has killed bacteria on a Petri dish; Florey and Chain develop it as a drug a decade later.
2. 1781 Siege of Yorktown Combined American-French force under Washington and Rochambeau forces Cornwallis to surrender; effectively ends the Revolutionary War.
3. 2000 Second Intifada Larger and more violent Palestinian uprising.
4. 1918 The Philadelphia parade Warned by doctors, Philadelphia holds its 200,000-strong Liberty Loan parade anyway; within six weeks over 12,000 Philadelphians are dead, bodies stacked in homes for days. St Loui
5. 1929 Born: Lata Mangeshkar Iconic Indian playback singer.
6. 1066 William lands at Pevensey Held in port all summer by contrary winds, William of Normandy's invasion fleet crosses the Channel unopposed — three days after Harold destroyed the Norwegian army at Stamford Bri
7. 1841 Born: Georges Clemenceau The 'Tiger' — French PM during WW1 and at Versailles.
8. 1912 Half a million sign the Ulster Covenant On 'Ulster Day', 471,000 unionist men and women sign a covenant — some famously in their own blood — pledging to use 'all means which may be found necessary' to defeat Home Rule fo
9. 1934 Born: Brigitte Bardot 1960s French film and pop icon.
10. 1970 Death of Nasser Gamal Abdel Nasser, leader of Egypt and figurehead of pan-Arabism, dies suddenly; millions mourn across the Arab world.
11. 1538 Battle of Preveza Barbarossa's fleet wins Ottoman control of the eastern Mediterranean.
12. 1972 Summit Series Canada vs the USSR, hockey as Cold War: Paul Henderson scores with 34 seconds left in Moscow and an entire country watches from school gymnasiums.
13. 935 Murder of Good King Wenceslas Duke Wenceslaus I of Bohemia is killed by his brother Boleslav at a church door; the pious duke becomes the Czech patron saint and the carol's 'Good King Wenceslas'.