Daily Calendar for Monday, September 28, 2026

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Explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrived at what is now San Diego Bay – 1542
First photograph of a comet – 1858
Grand jury in Chicago indicted eight players of the Chicago White Sox for throwing” the 1919 World Series” – 1920
Hazel, based on The Saturday Evening Post’s cartoon by Ted Key, premiered on television – 1961
150th flight of the X-15 aircraft – 1965
Little Joe, a 5-foot, 300-pound adolescent gorilla born in captivity, escaped from the Franklin Park Zoo in Massachusetts for a second time minutes before closing time. It also had escaped from its section of the Tropical Forest exhibit in August 2003 – 2003
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0, near Parkfield, California, was felt from San Francisco to Los Angeles – 2004
The U.S. government released the new $50 bills into circulation. The redesigned bill had splashes of red, blue, and yellow – 2004
437 people dressed as Superman set a world record in Calgary, Alberta – 2011

The first of three early snowstorms hit the Northeast, where Hamilton, New York, received four inches of snow and Ashby, Massachusetts got two inches – 1836
Astoria, Oregon, had a high temperature of 83 degrees F – 1989
Waterspout formed near Smithtown Bay, New York – 2006
Hurricane Ian hit the southwest coast of Florida as a category 4 hurricane. – 2022