Today is Sunday, Sept. 28, the 271st day of 2025. Today in history:On Sept. 28, 2020, the worldwide death toll from the coronavirus pandemic reached 1 million, according to a count by Johns Hopkins University. Also on this date:In 1781, American forces in the Revolutionary War, backed by a French fleet, began their successful siege of Yorktown, Virginia. In 1924, three U.S. Army planes landed in Seattle, completing the first round-the-world trip by air in 175 days. Ross Barnett in civil contempt for blocking the admission of James Meredith, a Black student, to the University of Mississippi.