During his tour of duty in Iraq, Army Sgt. Johnny Kempen thought he’d seen everything, until he met a little girl who saw nothing at all.
Kempen noticed one day, as soldiers threw candy to children in a tense Baghdad neighborhood, a little girl standing out.
“Watching her trying to get the candy and not being able [...]

As companies work toward rocketing paying passengers into space and back on commercial spaceships, one firm plans on doing it with a twist.
Instead of riding the ship back down to Earth, passengers will jump off it, hurtling through the atmosphere at supersonic speeds until their parachute deploys and they glide safely down to their home [...]

9/28/1901 - 10/13/1974
American television host
(Go to obit.)
60 Pierre-Louis Maupertuis
9/28/1698 - 7/27/1759
French mathematician, biologist and astronomer
66 Prosper Merimee
9/28/1803 - 9/23/1870
French dramatist, historian, archaeologist and short story writer
88 Georges Clemenceau
9/28/1841 - 11/24/1929
French statesman; premier of the Third Republic (1917-20)
87 Avery Brundage
9/28/1887 - 5/8/1975
American president of the International Olympic Committee (1952-72)
74 Elmer Rice
9/28/1892 - 5/8/1967
American playwright, director and [...]

On Sept. 28, 1924, two United States Army planes landed in Seattle, Washington, having completed the first round-the-world flight in 175 days. (Go to article.)
1066 William the Conqueror, the duke of Normandy, invaded England.
1542 Portuguese navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo arrived in present-day San Diego.
1781 American forces, backed by a French fleet, began the siege of Yorktown Heights, Va., [...]