What happened on 28 September?

17 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. 1998 Aquemini (OutKast album) OutKast's sprawling, live-instrument Southern masterpiece.
9. 1912 Half a million sign the Ulster Covenant On 'Ulster Day', 237,000 unionist men sign a covenant — some famously in their own blood — pledging to use 'all means which may be found necessary' to defeat Home Rule for Ireland,
10. 1934 Born: Brigitte Bardot 1960s French film and pop icon.
11. 48 BCE Murder of Pompey Fleeing to Egypt after Pharsalus, Pompey is stabbed to death in a small boat on the shore at Pelusium by courtiers of the boy king Ptolemy XIII; his head is offered to Caesar.
12. 1970 Death of Nasser Gamal Abdel Nasser, leader of Egypt and figurehead of pan-Arabism, dies suddenly; millions mourn across the Arab world.
13. 1538 Battle of Preveza Barbarossa's fleet wins Ottoman control of the eastern Mediterranean.
14. 1864 First International founded British and French trade unionists found the International Workingmen's Association at St Martin's Hall, London; Marx writes its inaugural address and dominates its council.
15. 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.
16. 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'.
17. 1106 Battle of Tinchebray Henry I defeats and captures his elder brother Robert Curthose in Normandy, reuniting England and the duchy; Robert spends his last 28 years a prisoner.