september 28 in English

September 28 is the 271st day of the year (272nd in
leap years)
in the
Gregorian calendar.
There are 94 days remaining.

Events
List of 37 items
. 48 BC -
Pompey the Great
is assassinated on orders of King
Ptolemy
of
Egypt
after landing in Egypt (may have occurred
September 29,
records unclear).
. 351 -
Battle of Mursa Major:
the
Roman Emperor
Constantius II
defeats the
usurper
Magnentius.
. 365 -
Roman usurper
Procopius
bribes two legions passing by
Constantinople,
and proclaims himself
Roman emperor.
. 935 -
Saint Wenceslas
is murdered by his brother,
Boleslav I of Bohemia.
. 995 -
Members of
Slavník's dynasty -
Spytimír, Pobraslav, Porej and Cáslav are murdered by Boleslaus's son,
Boleslaus II the Pious
. 1066 -
William the Conqueror
invades England: the
Norman Conquest
begins.
. 1106 -
The
Battle of Tinchebrai -
Henry I of England
defeats his brother,
Robert Curthose.
. 1322 -
Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor
defeats
Frederick I of Austria
in the
Battle of Mühldorf.
. 1448 -
Christian I
is crowned king of
Denmark.
. 1542 -
Navigator
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo
of
Portugal
arrives as what is now
San Diego,
California,
United States.
. 1708 -
Peter the Great
defeats the Swedes at the
Battle of Lesnaya.
. 1779 -
American Revolution:
Samuel Huntington
is elected
President of the Continental Congress,
succeeding
John Jay.
. 1781 -
American
forces backed by a
French
fleet begin the
siege of Yorktown,
Virginia,
during the
American Revolutionary War.
. 1787 -
The newly completed
United States Constitution
is voted on by the
U.S. Congress
to be sent to the
State legislatures
for approval.
. 1820 -
The
tomato
is publicly proven safe when Robert Johnson eats a bushel (24 kg) of tomatoes in
Salem, Massachusetts.
. 1823 -
Leo XII
is elected
pope.
. 1844 -
Oscar I
of
Sweden-Norway
is crowned king of
Sweden.
. 1867 -
Toronto
becomes the capital of
Ontario.
. 1867 - The
United States
takes control of
Midway Island.
. 1868 -
Battle of Alcolea
causes Queen
Isabella II of Spain
to flee to
France.
. 1871 -
Brazil
passes law freeing future children of slaves.
. 1928 -
UK
passed
Dangerous Drugs Act (1925) -
outlawing
cannabis.
. 1939 -
Germany
and the
Soviet Union
agree on a division of
Poland
after their invasion during
World War II.
. 1939 -
Warsaw
surrenders to
Nazi
Germany
during
World War II.
. 1944 -
Battle of Arnhem -
Germans
defeat
British
airborne at
Arnhem,
Netherlands.
. 1944 -
Soviet Army
troops liberate
Klooga concentration camp
in Klooga,
Estonia.
. 1958 -
France
ratifies a new
Constitution of France
; the
French Fifth Republic
is then formed upon the formal adoption of the new
constitution
on
October 4.
Guinea
rejects the new constitution, voting for
independence
instead.
. 1961 -
A
military coup
in
Damascus
effectively ends the
United Arab Republic,
the union between
Egypt
and
Syria.
. 1962 -
Paddington tram depot fire
destroys 65
trams
in
Brisbane,
Australia
. 1971 -
UK
Misuse of Drugs Act:
medicinal cannabis is banned.
. 1972 -
Paul Henderson
scores The Goal to win the
Canada/
USSR
(
ice hockey) "
Summit Series".
. 1973 -
ITT
Building in
New York City
bombed to protest ITT's involvement in the
September 11
1973 coup d'état
in
Chile.
. 1976 -
R&B
singer
Stevie Wonder
releases the classic double album
Songs in the Key of Life.
. 1987 -
Encounter at Farpoint,
the first episode of TV show
Star Trek: The Next Generation
airs.
. 1994 -
The car ferry
MS Estonia
sinks in
Baltic Sea,
killing 852 people.
. 1995 -
Bob Denard
and a group of mercenaries take the islands of
Comoros
in a
coup.
. 2000 -
The
Al-Aqsa Intifada
begins after the visit of
Ariel Sharon
to the
Al-Aqsa Mosque.
list end

Births
List of 80 items
. 551 BC -
Confucius,
Chinese philosopher (d.
479 BC)
. 58 BC -
Livia Drusilla,
wife of the Roman emperor
Caesar Augustus
(d.
29)
. 1493 -
Agnolo Firenzuola,
Italian poet
. 1573 -
Michelangelo Merisi
da Caravaggio, Italian artist (d.
1610)
. 1605 -
Ismael Bullialdus,
French astronomer (d.
1694)
. 1667 -
Asano Naganori,
Japanese warlord (d.
1701)
. 1681 -
Johann Mattheson,
German composer (d.
1764)
. 1705 -
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland,
English statesman (d.
1774)
. 1746 -
Sir
William Jones,
English philologist (d.
1794)
. 1803 -
Prosper Mérimée,
French author (d.
1870)
. 1821 -
Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs,
American politician (d.
1874)
. 1823 -
Alexandre Cabanel,
French painter (d.
1889)
. 1824 -
Francis Turner Palgrave,
British critic and poet (d.
1897)
. 1841 -
Georges Clemenceau,
French politician (d.
1929)
. 1852 -
Henri Moissan,
French chemist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
1907)
. 1856 -
Kate Douglas Wiggin,
American children's author (d.
1923)
. 1867 -
Kiichiro Hiranuma,
Prime Minister of Japan
(d.
1952)
. 1881 -
Pedro de Cordoba,
American actor (d.
1950)
. 1887 -
Avery Brundage,
American athlete and sports official (d.
1975)
. 1889 -
Jack Fournier,
baseball player (d.
1973)
. 1891 -
Myrtle Gonzalez,
American actress (d.
1918)
. 1901 -
William S. Paley,
American radio and television executive (d.
1990)
. 1901 -
Ed Sullivan,
American television show host (d.
1974)
. 1905 -
Max Schmeling,
German boxer (d.
2005)
. 1909 -
Al Capp,
American cartoonist (d.
1979)
. 1915 -
Ethel Rosenberg,
American spy (d.
1953)
. 1916 -
Peter Finch,
English-born actor (d.
1977)
. 1917 -
Audree Wilson,
mother of three founding members of The Beach Boys (d.
1997)
. 1923 -
William Windom,
American actor
. 1924 -
Marcello Mastroianni,
Italian actor (d.
1996)
. 1925 -
Seymour Cray,
American computer scientist (d.
1996)
. 1925 -
Arnold Stang,
American actor
. 1926 -
Jerry Clower,
American comedian (d.
1998)
. 1929 -
Lata Mangeshkar,
Indian playback singer
. 1932 -
Víctor Jara,
Chilean folk singer, theatre director, and political activist (d.
1973)
. 1934 -
Brigitte Bardot,
French actress
. 1934 -
Janet Munro,
British actress (d.
1972)
. 1937 -
Alice Mahon,
English politician and labor leader
. 1937 -
Rod Roddy,
American television announcer (d.
2003)
. 1938 -
Ben E. King,
American singer and songwriter
. 1939 -
Stuart Kauffman,
American biologist
. 1941 -
Edmund Stoiber,
German politician
. 1942 -
Marshall Bell,
American actor
. 1942 -
Pierre Clémenti,
French actor (d.
1999)
. 1943 -
Joel Higgins,
American actor
. 1943 -
J. T. Walsh,
American actor (d.
1998)
. 1946 -
Helen Shapiro,
English singer
. 1946 -
Jeffrey Jones,
American actor
. 1947 -
Bob Carr,
Former Premier of New South Wales
. 1947 -
Sheikh Hasina,
Prime Minister of Bangladesh
. 1950 -
John Sayles,
American director and screenwriter
. 1950 -
Laurie Lewis,
American musician
. 1952 -
Sylvia Kristel,
Dutch actress
. 1954 -
Steve Largent,
American football player and U.S. Congressman
. 1955 -
Stéphane Dion,
Canadian politician
. 1962 -
Grant Fuhr,
Canadian hockey player
. 1964 -
Janeane Garofalo,
American actress and comedian
. 1967 -
Mira Sorvino,
American actress
. 1967 -
Moon Unit Zappa,
American singer and actress
. 1968 -
Mika Häkkinen,
Finnish race car driver
. 1968 -
Naomi Watts,
English-born actress
. 1969 -
Nico Vaesen,
Belgian footballer
. 1969 -
Mark Everett,
former child actor, now fugitive
. 1969 -
Éric Lapointe,
Québécois
singer
. 1970 -
Mike DeJean,
baseball player
. 1971 -
Alan Wright,
English footballer
. 1972 -
Dita Von Teese,
American
burlesque
artist
. 1973 -
Jori Hulkkonen,
Finnish electronic musician
. 1975 -
Lenny Krayzelburg,
American Swimmer
. 1977 -
Se Ri Pak,
Korean golfer
. 1978 -
Bushido,
German rapper
. 1979 -
Bam Margera,
American skateboarder
. 1981 -
Jorge Guagua,
Ecuadorian footballer
. 1982 -
Emeka Okafor,
American basketball player
. 1983 -
Stefan Moore,
English footballer
. 1984 -
Ryan Zimmerman,
Baseball player
. 1984 -
Melody Thornton,
American Singer (
Pussycat Dolls)
. 1987 -
Hilary Duff,
American actress
. 1990 -
Kirsten Prout,
Canadian actress
. 1992 -
Skye McCole Bartusiak,
American actress
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Deaths
List of 47 items
. 48 BC -
Pompey,
Roman general and politician (b.
106 BC)
. 235 -
Saint Pontianus,
Pope
. 876 -
Louis the German,
King of Eastern Francia (b.
804)
. 935 -
Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia
(b.
907)
. 1104 -
Pedro I,
king of Aragon and Navarre (b.
1068)
. 1197 -
Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor
(b.
1165)
. 1429 -
Cymburgis of Masovia,
wife of Duke
Ernest of Austria
. 1582 -
George Buchanan,
Scottish historian (b.
1506)
. 1618 -
Joshua Sylvester,
English poet (b.
1563)
. 1687 -
Francis Turretin,
Swiss theologian (b.
1623)
. 1694 -
Gabriel Mouton,
French scientist (b.
1618)
. 1702 -
Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland,
English statesman (b.
1640)
. 1742 -
Jean Baptiste Massillon,
French churchman (b.
1663)
. 1781 -
William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford,
British diplomat and statesman (b.
1717)
. 1844 -
Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy,
Russian general and statesman (b.
1769)
. 1891 -
Herman Melville,
American novelist (b.
1819)
. 1895 -
Louis Pasteur,
French scientist (b.
1822)
. 1914 -
Richard Sears,
businessman (
Sears, Roebuck and Company)
(b.
1863)
. 1915 -
Georgy Tovstonogov,
Russian theatre director (d.
1989)
. 1915 -
Saitou Hajime,
3rd squad leader of the
Shinsengumi
died under name of Goro Fujita (b.
1844)
. 1918 -
Georg Simmel,
German sociologist and philosopher (b.
1858)
. 1918 -
Freddie Stowers,
American soldier (b.
1896)
. 1935 -
W.K. Dickson,
Scottish inventor (b.
1860)
. 1953 -
Edwin Hubble,
American astronomer (b.
1889)
. 1959 -
Rudolf Caracciola,
German racecar driver (b.
1901)
. 1964 -
Harpo Marx,
American comedian and actor (b.
1888)
. 1966 -
André Breton,
French poet (b.
1896)
. 1970 -
John Dos Passos,
American novelist (b.
1896)
. 1970 -
Gamal Abdal Nasser,
the second
President of Egypt
(b.
1918)
. 1978 -
Pope John Paul I
(b.
1912)
. 1979 -
John Herbert Chapman,
Canadian physicist (b.
1921)
. 1981 -
Rómulo Betancourt,
President of Venezuela
(b.
1908)
. 1982 -
Mabel Albertson,
American actress (b.
1901)
. 1988 -
Charles Addams,
American cartoonist (b.
1912)
. 1989 -
Ferdinand Marcos,
President of the Philippines
(b.
1917)
. 1991 -
Miles Davis,
American jazz trumpeter (b.
1926)
. 1993 -
Peter De Vries,
American novelist (b.
1910)
. 1994 -
José Francisco Ruiz Massieu,
Mexican politician (assassinated) (b.
1946)
. 2000 -
Pierre Elliott Trudeau,
fifteenth
Prime Minister of Canada
(b.
1919)
. 2002 -
Patsy T. Mink,
U.S. Congresswoman (b.
1927)
. 2002 -
Hartland Molson,
Canadian businessman (
Molson family),
senator and sports executive (
Montreal Canadiens)
(b.
1907)
. 2003 -
Althea Gibson,
American tennis player (b.
1927)
. 2003 -
Elia Kazan,
Hungarian-born film director (b.
1909)
. 2003 -
George Odlum,
West Indian politician (b.
1934)
. 2004 -
Geoffrey Beene,
American fashion designer (b.
1927)
. 2004 -
Scott Muni,
American disc jockey (b.
1930)
. 2005 -
Constance Baker Motley,
American judge (b.
1921)
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Holidays and observances
List of 5 items (contains 1 nested list)
. Feast day
of the following
RC Saints
List of 3 items nesting level 1
. Leoba
. St. Wenceslas
. Lorenzo Ruiz
list end nesting level 1
. Also see
September 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
. Czech Republic -
Czech Statehood Day
. Taiwan -
Teacher's Day
(
Confucius'
birthday)
. French Republican Calendar -
Carotte (Carrot)
Day, seventh day in the
Month of Vendémiaire
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