Today in History - History - September 28th

1785Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51)

1976A&M sues George Harrison who fails to meet deadline for LP completion

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

1997St Louis Cardinals Mark McGwire hits his 58th HR of 1997 (34 with Oak A's)

1974US 1st Lady Betty Ford undergoes a radical mastectomy

1995Mary Tyler Moore returns to series TV in "NY News" on CBS

1960Ted Williams hits his final homer #521 (off Jack Fisher)

1928Prussia forbids speech from Adolf Hitler

1937FDR dedicates Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (Oregon)

1974"Papa Don't Take No Mess Part 1" by James Brown peaks at #31

1913Alice Marble, Beckworth California, tennis player (US Open 1936, 1938-40)

1977Se Ri Pak, Korean golfer

1987Hilary Duff, Houston Texas, actress and singer (Lizzie McGuire)

1852Henri Moissan [Ferdinand-Frederic-], Paris France, chemist (Nobel 1906), (d. 1907)

58 BCLivia Drusilla, wife of the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus

1964Janeane Garofalo, NJ, comedienne (SNL, Truth about Cats & Dogs)

1956Russian president Boris Yeltsin (25) weds Naina Girina (24)

1922Stage and film actor James Cagney (23) weds dancer Frances Vernon

1891Herman Melville, writer (Billy Budd, Moby Dick), dies at 72

1895Louis Pasteur, French bacteriologist (Pasteurization), dies at 72

1991Miles Davis, jazz trumpeter, dies of pneumonia at 65

1953Edwin Hubble, American astronomer, first to announce existence of other galaxies, dies at 63

48 BCPompey the Great [Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus], Roman general and politician, dies at 59

2000Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)