September 28

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

Events

• 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.
• AD 1066 – William the Conqueror invades England: Battle of Hastings
• 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 crowned king of Denmark
• 1542 – Navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives as what is now San Diego
• 1708 – Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya
• 1779 – 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 Heights, Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.
• 1787 – The just 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
• 1821 – Mexico signs its final Declaration of Independence.
• 1823 – Leo XII is elected as pope
• 1844 – Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden
• 1867 – Toronto, Ontario becomes the capital of Ontario
• 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
• 1934 – Ocean liner RMS Queen Mary launched at Clydebank.
• 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.
• 1958 – Guinea votes for independence from France
• 1958  – France ratifies a new constitution; the Fifth Republic of France is formed.
• 1961 – A military coup in Damascus, Syria effectivly ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria
• 1971 – UK Misuse of Drugs Act – medicinal cannabis 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 Coup in Chile.
• 1976 – R&B singer Stevie Wonder releases the classic double album Songs in the Key of Life.
• 1994 – The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852.
• 1995 – Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.
• 2000 – Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau dies.
• 2000 – Al-Aqsa Intifada begins after the visit of Ariel Sharon to the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Births

• 1573 – Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian artist (d. 1610)
• 1746 – Sir William Jones, English philologist (d. 1794)
• 1803 – Prosper Mérimée, French author (d. 1870)
• 1824 – Francis Turner Palgrave, British critic and poet (d. 1897)
• 1841 – Georges Clemenceau, French politician (d. 1929)
• 1856 – Kate Douglas Wiggin, American children's author (d. 1923)
• 1887 – Avery Brundage, Olympic Games president (d. 1975)
• 1901 – Ed Sullivan, American television show host (d. 1974)
• 1901  – William S. Paley, television pioneer (d. 1990)
• 1905 – Max Schmeling, boxer
• 1909 – Al Capp, American cartoonist (d. 1979)
• 1915 – Ethel Rosenberg, spy (d. 1953)
• 1916 – Peter Finch, actor (d. 1977)
• 1924 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (d. 1996)
• 1925 – Seymour Cray, computer scientist (d. 1996)
• 1926 – Jerry Clower, country music entertainer
• 1929 – Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer
• 1934 – Brigitte Bardot, French actress
• 1935 – KoKo Taylor, blues singer
• 1937 – Rod Roddy, television announcer (d. 2003)
• 1937  – Alice Mahon, English politician and trade unionist
• 1938 – Ben E. King, singer, songwriter
• 1939 – Stuart Kauffman, biologist
• 1947 – Jeffrey Jones, actor
• 1950 – John Sayles, director, screenwriter
• 1952 – Sylvia Kristel, actress
• 1954 – William Mylar, musician, composer
• 1962 – Grant Fuhr, hockey player
• 1964 – Janeane Garofalo, actress, comedian
• 1968 – Naomi Watts, actress
• 1967 – Moon Unit Zappa, singer, actress
• 1967  – Mira Sorvino, actress
• 1968 – Mika Häkkinen, Finnish race car driver]]
• 1970 – Isabelle Brasseur, figure skater
• 1972 – Gwyneth Paltrow, actress
• 1977 – Se Ri Pak, golfer
• 1979 – Bam Margera, skateboarder
• 1987 – Hilary Duff, actress, singer

Deaths

• 235 – Saint Pontianus, Pope
• 876 – Louis the German, grandson of Charlemagne, ruler of Eastern Francia
• 1197 – Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1165)
• 1429 – Cymburgis of Masovia, wife of Duke Ernest the Iron of Inner Austria
• 1891 – Herman Melville, American novelist
• 1895 – Louis Pasteur, French scientist
• 1902 – Emile Zola, French novelist and critic
• 1918 – Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
• 1935 – W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (b. 1860)
• 1953 – Edwin Hubble, astronomer
• 1964 – Harpo Marx, comedian and actor (b. 1888)
• 1966 – André Breton, French poet (b. 1896)
• 1970 – John Dos Passos, American novelist
• 1970  – Gamal Abdal Nasser, first president of Egypt
• 1978 – Pope John Paul I
• 1979 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist
• 1988 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist
• 1989 – Ferdinand Marcos, president of the Philippines
• 1991 – Miles Davis, American jazz trumpet player
• 2000 – Pierre Elliott Trudeau, fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada
• 2002 – Patsy T. Mink, American Congresswoman
• 2003 – Althea Gibson, African-American tennis pioneer
• 2003  – Elia Kazan, movie and theatre director

Holidays and observances

• St. Wenceslas Day (Czech Statehood Day), Czech Republic
• Teacher's Day (Confucius' birthday), Taiwan

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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