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

Events[link]

• 48 BC – Pompey the Great is assassinated on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.
• 235 – Pope Pontian resigns. He and Hippolytus, church leader of Rome, are exiled to the mines of Sardinia.
• 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, Boleslaus I of Bohemia.
• 995 – Members of Slavník's dynasty – Spytimír, Pobraslav, Pořej and Čáslav are murdered by Boleslaus's son, Boleslaus II the Pious.
• 1066 – William the Bastard (as he was known at the time) invades England beginning the Norman Conquest.
• 1106 – The Battle of Tinchebrai – Henry I of England defeats his brother, Robert Curthose.
• 1238 – Muslim Valencia surrenders to the besieging King James I of Aragon the Conqueror.
• 1322 – Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf.
• 1448 – Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
• 1538 – Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.
• 1542 – Navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California, United States.
• 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.
• 1791 – France becomes the first European country to emancipate its Jewish population.
• 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.
• 1889 – The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter 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.
• 1871 – Brazilian Parliament passes the Law of the Free Womb, granting freedom to all new children born to slaves, the first major step in the eradication of slavery in Brazil.
• 1901 – Philippine-American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga on Samar Island.
• 1912 – The Ulster Covenant is signed by half a million Ultonians in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
• 1918 – World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
• 1919 – Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska, US.
• 1928 – The U.K. Parliament passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis.
• 1928 – Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
• 1939 – Nazi 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 – Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia.
• 1950 – Indonesia joins the United Nations.
• 1951 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
• 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.
• 1960 – Mali and Senegal join the United Nations.
• 1961 – A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
• 1962 – The Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane, Australia.
• 1971 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
• 1973 – The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the September 11, 1973 coup d'état in Chile.
• 1975 – The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.
• 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.
• 1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
• 1996 – Former president of Afghanistan Mohammad Najibullah is tortured and brutally murdered by the Taliban.
• 2000 – Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
• 2008 – SpaceX launches the first ever private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
• 2009 – The military junta leading Guinea, headed by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, raped, killed and wounded protesters during a protest rally in a stadium called Stade du 28 Septembre.

Births[link]

• 551 BC – Confucius, Chinese philosopher (d. 479)
• 1330 – Nicolas Flamel, French scrivener, manuscript-seller, and alchemist (d. 1418)
• 1493 – Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet (d. 1545)
• 1605 – Ismaël 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)
• 1705 – Johann Peter Kellner, German organist and composer (d. 1772)
• 1746 – Sir William Jones, English philologist (d. 1794)
• 1792 – Johann Georg Hiedler, Grandfather of Adolf Hitler (d. 1857)
• 1803 – Prosper Mérimée, French author (d. 1870)
• 1809 – Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (d. 1899)
• 1819 – Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol, Catalan intellectual, artist and engineer, inventor of the first combustion engine-driven submarine, which was propelled by an early form of air-independent propulsion (d. 1885)
• 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)
• 1835 – Sai Baba of Shirdi (d. 1918)
• 1836 – Thomas Crapper, English inventor (d. 1910)
• 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)
• 1860 – Paul Ulrich Villard, French chemist and physicist, discovered the Gamma rays (d. 1934)
• 1861 – Amélie of Orléans, queen of Portugal (d. 1951)
• 1867 – Hiranuma Kiichirō, 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, American baseball player (d. 1973)
• 1891 – Myrtle Gonzalez, American actress (d. 1918)
• 1893 – Giannis Skaribas, Greek writer and dramatist (d. 1984)
• 1898 – Carl Clauberg, Nazi concentration camp doctor (d. 1957)
• 1899 – Alice de Janzé, American heiress (d. 1941)
• 1900 – Joe Falcon, Cajun accordion player (d. 1965)
• 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)
• 1907 – Bhagat Singh, Indian Freedom Fighter (d. 1931)
• 1907 – Heikki Savolainen, Finnish gymnast (d. 1997)
• 1909 – Al Capp, American cartoonist (d. 1979)
• 1910 – Diosdado Macapagal, 9th President of the Philippines (d. 1997)
• 1910 – Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino politician and resistance leader (d. 1942)
• 1913 – Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss artist and illustrator (d. 2007)
• 1915 – Ethel Rosenberg, Soviet spy, (d. 1953)
• 1916 – Peter Finch, English-born actor (d. 1977)
• 1916 – Olga Lepeshinskaya, Soviet ballerina (d. 2008)
• 1918 – Ángel Labruna, Argentinian football player and coach (d. 1983)
• 1918 – Arnold Stang, American comic actor (d. 2009)
• 1919 – Doris Singleton, American actress
• 1923 – John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, British politician (d. 2007)
• 1923 – William Windom, American actor
• 1923 – Tuli Kupferberg, American counterculture poet, author, cartoonist, pacifist anarchist, publisher and co-founder of the band The Fugs (d. 2010)
• 1924 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (d. 1996)
• 1924 – Rudolf Barshai, Soviet/Russian conductor and violist (d. 2010)
• 1925 – Seymour Cray, American computer scientist (d. 1996)
• 1925 – Cromwell Everson, South African composer (d. 1991)
• 1925 – Frank Latimore, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1926 – Jerry Clower, American comedian (d. 1998)
• 1928 – Koko Taylor, American blues musician, popularly known as the "Queen of the Blues" (d. 2009)
• 1929 – Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer
• 1930 – Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist
• 1932 – Víctor Jara, Chilean folk singer and activist (d. 1973)
• 1933 – Miguel Berrocal, sculptor (d. 2006)
• 1933 – Johnny "Country" Mathis, American country singer (d. 2011)
• 1934 – Brigitte Bardot, French actress
• 1934 – Janet Munro, British actress (d. 1972)
• 1935 – Ronald Lacey, British actor (d. 1991)
• 1935 – Heather Sears, British actress (d. 1994)
• 1936 – Emmett Chapman, jazz musician best known as the inventor of the Chapman Stick
• 1937 – Alice Mahon, English politician and labor leader
• 1937 – Rod Roddy, American television announcer (d. 2003)
• 1938 – Ben E. King, American r&b singer
• 1939 – Stuart Kauffman, American biologist
• 1939 – Rudolph Walker, Trinidadian-born British actor
• 1939 – Elbridge Bryant, American tenor singer, one of the founding members of Motown singing group The Temptations (d. 1975)
• 1941 – Edmund Stoiber, German politician
• 1942 – Marshall Bell, American actor
• 1942 – Pierre Clémenti, French actor (d. 1999)
• 1942 – Tim Maia, Brazilian singer (d. 1998)
• 1942 – Edward "Little Buster" Forehand, soul and blues musician (d. 2006)
• 1943 – Warren Lieberfarb, American media executive
• 1943 – Nick St. Nicholas, Canadian musician (Steppenwolf)
• 1943 – J. T. Walsh, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1945 – Marielle Goitschel, French alpine skier
• 1945 – Manolis Rasoulis, Greek lyricist (d. 2011)
• 1945 – Fusako Shigenobu, Japanese Red Army Founder
• 1946 – Jeffrey Jones, American actor
• 1946 – Helen Shapiro, English singer
• 1947 – Bob Carr, Australian politician
• 1947 – Sheikh Hasina, Bangladeshi politician
• 1948 – Panagiotis Adraktas, Greek politician
• 1949 – Jim Henshaw, Canadian actor and writer
• 1950 – Laurie Lewis, American musician
• 1950 – John Sayles, American director and screenwriter
• 1951 – Wei Chen, Canadian journalist
• 1951 – Norton Buffalo, singer-songwriter, country and blues harmonica player, record producer (d. 2009)
• 1952 – Efthimis Kioumourtzoglou, Greek basketball coach
• 1952 – Sylvia Kristel, Dutch actress
• 1954 – Steve Largent, American football player and U.S. Congressman
• 1954 – George Lynch, American musician (Dokken)
• 1955 – Stéphane Dion, Canadian politician
• 1955 – Kenny Kirkland, piano & keyboard player, member of Buckshot LeFonque (d. 1998)
• 1957 – C. J. Chenier, Zydeco musician
• 1959 – Ron Fellows, Canadian race car driver
• 1959 – Steve Hytner, American actor
• 1959 – Dantes Tsitsi, Nauruan politician
• 1960 – Frank Hammerschlag, German footballer
• 1960 – Jennifer Rush, American pop singer
• 1961 – Quentin Kawananakoa, pretender to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii
• 1962 – Grant Fuhr, Canadian hockey player
• 1962 – Dietmar Schacht, German footballer
• 1962 – Chuck Taylor, American music journalist
• 1963 – Steve Blackman, American professional wrestler
• 1963 – Greg Weisman, American writer and animation producer.
• 1964 – Claudio Borghi, Argentine football manager (Colo-Colo)
• 1964 – Laura Cerón, American actress
• 1964 – Gregor Fisken, British racing driver and businessman
• 1964 – Janeane Garofalo, American actress and comedian
• 1964 – Paul Jewell, English football manager
• 1965 – Jens Melzig, German footballer
• 1966 – Maria Canals Barrera, American actress, singer
• 1966 – Ginger Fish, American musician (Marilyn Manson)
• 1966 – Puri Jagannadh, Indian film director
• 1966 – Leilani Sarelle, American Actress
• 1967 – Mira Sorvino, American actress
• 1967 – Moon Unit Zappa, American singer and actress
• 1968 – Mika Häkkinen, Finnish race car driver
• 1968 – Rob Moroso, American NASCAR driver (d. 1990)
• 1968 – Naomi Watts, English-born Australian actress
• 1969 – Marcel Dost, Dutch decathlete
• 1969 – Mark Everett, American fugitive (d. 2008)
• 1969 – Ben Greenman, American author
• 1969 – Éric Lapointe, Canadian singer
• 1969 – Nico Vaesen, Belgian footballer
• 1970 – Kimiko Date-Krumm, Japanese tennis player
• 1970 – Mike DeJean, American baseball player
• 1970 – Gualter Salles, Brazilian racing driver
• 1971 – Joseph Arthur, American singer-songwriter
• 1971 – Alan Wright, English footballer
• 1971 – A. J. Croce, American singer-songwriter and piano player
• 1972 – Dita Von Teese, American burlesque artist
• 1973 – Jori Hulkkonen, Finnish electronic musician
• 1973 – Brian Rafalski, American ice hockey player
• 1974 – Marco Di Loreto, Italian footballer
• 1974 – Mariya Kiselyova, Russian swimmer
• 1974 – Joonas Kolkka, Finnish footballer
• 1974 – John Light, English actor
• 1974 – Shane Webcke, Australian rugby player
• 1975 – Stuart Clark, Australian cricketer
• 1975 – Lenny Krayzelburg, American swimmer
• 1976 – Ali Asel, Kuwaiti footballer
• 1976 – Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist
• 1976 – Timo Hampf, German footballer
• 1977 – Ireneusz Marcinkowski, Polish footballer
• 1977 – Se Ri Pak, Korean golfer
• 1978 – Bushido, German rapper
• 1979 – Bam Margera, American skateboarder
• 1981 – José Calderón, Spanish basketball player
• 1981 – Melissa Claire Egan, American actress
• 1981 – Gül Gölge, Turkish model and actress
• 1981 – Jorge Guagua, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1981 – Iracema Trevisan, Brazilian musician (CSS)
• 1982 – Aleksandr Anyukov, Russian footballer
• 1982 – Abhinav Bindra, Indian shooter
• 1982 – Ray Emery, Canadian hockey player
• 1982 – Ranbir Kapoor, Indian actor
• 1982 – Nolwenn Leroy, French singer
• 1982 – Emeka Okafor, American basketball player
• 1982 – Dustin Penner, Canadian hockey player
• 1982 – Anderson Varejão, Brazilian basketball player
• 1982 – St. Vincent, American multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter
• 1983 – Stefan Moore, English footballer
• 1983 – John Schwalger, New Zealand All Black rugby player
• 1984 – Melody Thornton, American singer and dancer (Pussycat Dolls)
• 1984 – Mathieu Valbuena, French footballer
• 1984 – Ryan Zimmerman, American baseball player
• 1985 – Alina Ibragimova, Russian violinist
• 1985 – Shindong, Korean Singer (Super Junior)
• 1986 – Andrés Guardado, Mexican footballer
• 1987 – Pierre Becken, German footballer
• 1987 – Hilary Duff, American actress and singer
• 1987 – Chloë Hanslip, English violinist
• 1988 – Marin Čilić, Croatian tennis player
• 1988 – Esmée Denters, Dutch singer
• 1988 – Aleks Vrteski, Australian footballer
• 1989 – Mark Randall, English footballer
• 1990 – Kirsten Prout, Canadian actress
• 1992 – Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress
• 1994 – Roman Richard Campo,
• 2000 – Frankie Jonas, American actor

Deaths[link]

• 48 BC – Pompey the Great, Roman general and politician (b. 106 BC)
• 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)
• 1829 – Nikolay Nikolayevich Raevsky, Russian general (b. 1771)
• 1844 – Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and statesman (b. 1769)
• 1873 – Émile Gaboriau, French writer and journalist (b. 1832)
• 1891 – Herman Melville, American novelist (b. 1819)
• 1895 – Louis Pasteur, French scientist (b. 1822)
• 1914 – Richard Sears, American businessman (b. 1863)
• 1915 – Saitō Hajime, Japanese samurai (b. 1844)
• 1918 – Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
• 1918 – Freddie Stowers, American soldier (b. 1896)
• 1935 – William Kennedy Dickson, Scottish inventor (b. 1860)
• 1938 – Charles Duryea, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1861)
• 1943 – Sam Ruben, American chemist (b. 1913)
• 1949 – Chrysanthus, Greek orthodox Archbishop of Athens (b. 1881)
• 1953 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (b. 1889)
• 1956 – William Edward Boeing, American aviation manufacturer (b. 1881)
• 1957 – Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan composer and musician (b. 1888)
• 1959 – Rudolf Caracciola, German race car 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 Abdel Nasser, Egyptian statesman (b. 1918)
• 1978 – Pope John Paul I (b. 1912)
• 1979 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (b. 1921)
• 1981 – Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan politician (b. 1908)
• 1982 – Mabel Albertson, American actress (b. 1901)
• 1989 – Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino politician (b. 1917)
• 1991 – Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1926)
• 1993 – Peter De Vries, American novelist (b. 1910)
• 1993 – Fraser MacPherson, Canadian jazz saxophonist (b. 1928)
• 1993 – Alexander A. Drabik, American soldier (b. 1910)
• 1994 – Urmas Alender, Estonian singer and musician (b. 1953)
• 1994 – José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician (b. 1946)
• 1994 – Harry Saltzman, American film producer (b. 1915)
• 1996 – Mohammad Najibullah, Afghanistani president (b. 1947)
• 1999 – Escott Reid, Canadian diplomat (b. 1905)
• 2000 – Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)
• 2002 – Patsy Mink, American politician (b. 1927)
• 2002 – Hartland Molson, Canadian businessman, politician, and sports executive (b. 1907)
• 2003 – Althea Gibson, American tennis player (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Elia Kazan, Greek-born American film director (b. 1909)
• 2003 – George Odlum, Saint Lucian politician (b. 1934)
• 2004 – Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (b. 1924)
• 2004 – Scott Muni, American disc jockey (b. 1930)
• 2005 – Constance Baker Motley, American judge (b. 1921)
• 2007 – René Desmaison, French mountaineer (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Wally Parks, American car racing executive (b. 1913)
• 2009 – Ulf Larsson, Swedish actor (b. 1956)
• 2009 – Guillermo Endara, Panamanian politician (b. 1936)
• 2010 – Kurt Albert, German mountaineer (b. 1954)
• 2010 – Dolores Wilson, American opera singer (b. 1928)

Holidays and observances[link]

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Aaron of Auxerre
  • Annemund
  • Conval
  • Eustochium
  • Exuperius
  • Faustus of Riez
  • Leoba
  • Lorenzo Ruiz
  • Paternus of Auch
  • Wenceslas
  • September 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
• Czech Statehood Day (Czech Republic)
• National Day of Awareness and Unity against Child Pornography (The Philippines)
• Teachers' Day (Republic of China and Chinese-Filipino schools in The Philippines), ceremonies dedicated to Confucius are also observed.
• World Rabies Day (International)
• Ask a Stupid Question Day (United States)

External links[link]

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