September 28, 1928

1928-09-28 00:00 UTC

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Penicillin is noticed

Penicillin is noticed
Photo: Unknown author · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Alexander Fleming returns to a contaminated petri dish and sees a ring of cleared bacteria.
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It is recorded at 1928-09-28 00:00 UTC — September 28, 1928 in Coordinated Universal Time. Every minute in this registry is stored in UTC so it reads the same anywhere in the world.
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