September 28
is the 271st day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (272nd in
leap years). There are 94 days remaining.
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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).
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351 -
Battle of Mursa Major: the
Roman Emperor Constantius II defeats the
usurper Magnentius.
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365 -
Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by
Constantinople, and proclaims himself
Roman emperor.
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935 -
Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother,
Boleslav I of Bohemia.
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995 - Members of
Slavník's dynasty - Spytimír, Pobraslav, Pořej and Čáslav are murdered by Boleslaus's son,
Boleslaus II the Pious*
1066 -
William the Conqueror invades England: the
Norman Conquest begins.
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1106 - The
Battle of Tinchebrai -
Henry I of England defeats his brother,
Robert Curthose.
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1322 -
Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats
Frederick I of Austria in the
Battle of Mühldorf.
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1448 -
Christian I is crowned king of
Denmark.
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1542 - Navigator
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of
Portugal arrives as what is now
San Diego,
California,
United States.
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1708 -
Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the
Battle of Lesnaya.
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1779 -
American Revolution:
Samuel Huntington is elected
President of the Continental Congress, succeeding
John Jay.
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1781 -
American forces backed by a
French fleet begin the
siege of Yorktown,
Virginia, during the
American Revolutionary War.
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1787 - The newly completed
United States Constitution is voted on by the
U.S. Congress to be sent to the
State legislatures for approval.
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1820 - The
tomato is publicly proven safe when Robert Johnson eats a bushel (24 kg) of tomatoes in
Salem, Massachusetts.
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1823 -
Leo XII is elected
pope.
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1844 -
Oscar I of
Sweden-Norway is crowned king of
Sweden.
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1867 -
Toronto becomes the capital of
Ontario.
* 1867 - The
United States takes control of
Midway Island.
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1868 -
Battle of Alcolea causes Queen
Isabella II of Spain to flee to
France.
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1871 -
Brazil passes law freeing future children of slaves.
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1928 -
UK passed
Dangerous Drugs Act (1925) - outlawing
cannabis.
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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.
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1944 -
Battle of Arnhem -
Germans defeat
British airborne at
Arnhem,
Netherlands.
* 1944 -
Soviet Army troops liberate
Klooga concentration camp in Klooga,
Estonia.
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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.
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1961 - A
military coup in
Damascus effectively ends the
United Arab Republic, the union between
Egypt and
Syria.
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1962 -
Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65
trams in
Brisbane,
Australia*
1971 -
UK Misuse of Drugs Act: medicinal cannabis is banned.
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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.
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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.
*
2005 - The
FIDE World Chess Championship 2005, won by
Veselin Topalov, begins.
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551 BC -
Confucius, Chinese philosopher (d.
479 BC)
*
58 BC -
Livia Drusilla, wife of the Roman emperor
Caesar Augustus (d.
29)
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1493 -
Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet
*
1573 -
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian artist (d.
1610)
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1605 -
Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer (d.
1694)
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1667 -
Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (d.
1701)
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1681 -
Johann Mattheson, German composer (d.
1764)
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1705 -
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English statesman (d.
1774)
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1746 - Sir
William Jones, English philologist (d.
1794)
*
1803 -
Prosper Mérimée, French author (d.
1870)
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1821 -
Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (d.
1874)
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1823 -
Alexandre Cabanel, French painter (d.
1889)
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1824 -
Francis Turner Palgrave, British critic and poet (d.
1897)
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1841 -
Georges Clemenceau, French politician (d.
1929)
*
1852 -
Henri Moissan, French chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1907)
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1856 -
Kate Douglas Wiggin, American children's author (d.
1923)
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1867 -
Kiichiro Hiranuma,
Prime Minister of Japan (d.
1952)
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1881 -
Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (d.
1950)
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1887 -
Avery Brundage, American athlete and sports official (d.
1975)
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1889 -
Jack Fournier, baseball player (d.
1973)
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1891 -
Myrtle Gonzalez, American actress (d.
1918)
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1901 -
William S. Paley, American radio and television executive (d.
1990)
* 1901 -
Ed Sullivan, American television show host (d.
1974)
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1905 -
Max Schmeling, German boxer (d.
2005)
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1909 -
Al Capp, American cartoonist (d.
1979)
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1915 -
Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (d.
1953)
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1916 -
Peter Finch, English-born actor (d.
1977)
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1917 -
Audree Wilson, mother of three founding members of The Beach Boys (d.
1997)
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1923 -
William Windom, American actor
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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)
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1929 -
Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer
*
1932 -
Víctor Jara, Chilean folk singer, theatre director, and political activist (d.
1973)
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1934 -
Brigitte Bardot, French actress
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1937 -
Alice Mahon, English politician and labor leader
* 1937 -
Rod Roddy, American television announcer (d.
2003)
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1938 -
Ben E. King, American singer and songwriter
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1939 -
Stuart Kauffman, American biologist
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1941 -
Edmund Stoiber, German politician
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1942 -
Marshall Bell, American actor
*
1943 -
Joel Higgins, American actor
* 1943 -
J. T. Walsh, American actor (d.
1998)
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1946 -
Helen Shapiro, English singer
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1947 -
Bob Carr, Former Premier of New South Wales
* 1947 -
Sheikh Hasina,
Prime Minister of Bangladesh* 1947 -
Jeffrey Jones, American actor
*
1950 -
John Sayles, American director and screenwriter
* 1950 -
Laurie Lewis, American musician
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1952 -
Sylvia Kristel, Dutch actress
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1954 -
Steve Largent, American football player and U.S. Congressman
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1955 -
Stéphane Dion, Canadian politician
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1962 -
Grant Fuhr, Canadian hockey player
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1964 -
Janeane Garofalo, American actress and comedian
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1967 -
Mira Sorvino, American actress
* 1967 -
Moon Unit Zappa, American singer and actress
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1968 -
Mika Häkkinen, Finnish race car driver
* 1968 -
Naomi Watts, English-born actress
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1969 -
Nico Vaesen, Belgian footballer
* 1969 -
Mark Everett, former child actor, now fugitive
*
1970 -
Mike DeJean, baseball player
*
1971 -
Alan Wright, English footballer
*
1972 -
Dita Von Teese, American
burlesque artist
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1973 -
Jori Hulkkonen, Finnish electronic musician
*
1975 -
Lenny Krayzelburg, American Swimmer
*
1977 -
Se Ri Pak, Korean golfer
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1979 -
Bam Margera, American skateboarder
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1981 -
Jorge Guagua, Ecuadorian footballer
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1982 -
Emeka Okafor, American basketball player
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1983 -
Stefan Moore, English footballer
*
1984 -
Ryan Zimmerman, Baseball player
*
1984 -
Melody Thornton, American Singer (
Pussycat Dolls)
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1987 -
Hilary Duff, American actress
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1990 -
Kirsten Prout, Canadian actress
*
1992 -
Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress
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48 BC -
Pompey, Roman general and politician (b.
106 BC)
*
235 -
Saint Pontianus, Pope
*
876 -
Louis the German, King of Eastern Francia (b.
804)
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935 -
Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (b.
907)
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1104 -
Pedro I, king of Aragon and Navarre (b.
1068)
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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)
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1618 -
Joshua Sylvester, English poet (b.
1563)
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1687 -
Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (b.
1623)
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1702 -
Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, English statesman (b.
1640)
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1742 -
Jean Baptiste Massillon, French churchman (b.
1663)
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1781 -
William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, British diplomat and statesman (b.
1717)
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1844 -
Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and statesman (b.
1769)
*
1891 -
Herman Melville, American novelist (b.
1819)
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1895 -
Louis Pasteur, French scientist (b.
1822)
*
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)
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1918 -
Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b.
1858)
* 1918 -
Freddie Stowers, American soldier (b.
1896)
*
1935 -
W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (b.
1860)
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1953 -
Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (b.
1889)
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1959 -
Rudolf Caracciola, German racecar driber (b.
1901)
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1964 -
Harpo Marx, American comedian and actor (b.
1888)
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1966 -
André Breton, French poet (b.
1896)
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1970 -
John Dos Passos, American novelist (b.
1896)
* 1970 -
Gamal Abdal Nasser, first
President of Egypt (b.
1918)
*
1978 -
Pope John Paul I (b.
1912)
*
1979 -
John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (b.
1921)
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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)
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2000 -
Pierre Elliott Trudeau, fifteenth
Prime Minister of Canada (b.
1919)
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2002 -
Patsy T. Mink, U.S. Congresswoman (b.
1927)
*
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)
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2004 -
Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (b.
1927)
*
2005 -
Constance Baker Motley, American judge (b.
1921)
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Feast day of the following
RC Saints **
Leoba**
St. Wenceslas**
Lorenzo Ruiz* Also see
September 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)*
Czech Republic - Czech Statehood Day
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Taiwan -
Teacher's Day (
Confucius' birthday)
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French Republican Calendar -
Carotte (Carrot) Day, seventh day in the
Month of Vendémiaire*
BBC: On This DaySeptember 27 -
September 29 -
August 28 -
October 28 –
listing of all days
