28 September 1542: Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo arrived at present-day San Diego.
28 September 1920: In what became known as the Black Sox Scandal, eight members of the Chicago White Sox baseball team were indicted by a grand jury on charges that they had thrown the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds in return for a bribe.
28 September 1967: Walter Washington became the first mayor of the District of Columbia.
28 September 1989: Former Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos died in exile in Hawaii.
Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.
- Tom Brokaw
I wrote a few children’s books… not on purpose.
- Steven Wright
