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September 28

3 sourced moments from September 28 in history: William the Conqueror landed at Pevensey on 28 Sept 1066; The first flight around the world landed back in Seattle (1924); and Fleming found penicillin in 1928, and foresaw resistance.

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3 things happened on September 28

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1928 Human Body & Mind · Medicine & Disease

Fleming found penicillin in 1928, and foresaw resistance

A stray mould on a Staphylococcus plate gave Alexander Fleming the first antibiotic. Seventeen years later he warned how it could stop working.

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1924 Technology · Transportation

The first flight around the world landed back in Seattle

Eight U.S. Army aviators set out to circle the planet by air; after 175 days, two patched-up biplanes limped home.

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1066 History · Medieval

William the Conqueror landed at Pevensey on 28 Sept 1066

Norman invasion fleet of 700 to 1,000 ships came ashore unopposed in Sussex while King Harold was still in the north after Stamford Bridge.

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