Wednesday, Sep 28, 2022
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1870 - Birth of Florent Schmitt Blāmont France, composer (Frédégonde).
1879 - Sydney Australia innaugurates steam motor tram route.
1880 - Birth of Ralph Edward Flanders Barnet Vermont, (Senator-Vermont).
1882 - Birth of Jack Fournier second baseman (1917-18 New York Yankees).
1885 - Birth of Wilbur 'Lefty' Good pitcher (New York Yankees, 1905).
1887 - Birth of Avery Brundage Amateur Athletic Union and International Olympic Committee president.
1889 - The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a metre as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.
1893 - An act of US Congress establishes Cascade Range Forest Reserve.
1895 - Louis Pasteur dies.
1895 - Birth of Lawton Whitey Witt outfielder (New York Yankees, 1922-25).