Important Events From This day in History – 28th September

Let’s look at major events that happened today in history;

• 935 Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia.

• 1066 – William the Conqueror, then Duke of Normandy, lands at Pevensey Bay in Sussex, beginning the Norman conquest of England.

• 1781 – 9,000 American and 7,000 French troops begin the siege of Yorktown.

• 1887 – Yellow River or Huáng Hé floods in China, killing between 900,000 and 2 million people, one of the deadliest natural disasters in history.

• 1939 – German-Soviet Frontier Treaty is signed by Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov; redraws German and Soviet spheres of influence in central Europe and transferred most of Lithuania to the USSR