What happened on September 28? There are more than 291 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About September 28
September 28 is the 272nd day of the year 2024. There are 94 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday. This day falls under the 39th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Cook Station, Missouri 65449 sunrise will occur at 06:58 AM and sunset will occur at 06:54 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Libra. The modern birthstone for this month is Sapphire while the mystical birthstone is Agate.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 123 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For September 28
- 48 BCPompey the Great is assassinated on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.
- 235Pope Pontian resigns. He and Hippolytus, church leader of Rome, are exiled to the mines of Sardinia.
- 351Battle of Mursa Major: the Roman Emperor Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.
- 365Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself Roman emperor.
- 935Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia.
- 995Members of Slavník’s dynasty – Spytimír, Pobraslav, Pořej and Čáslav are murdered by Boleslaus’s son, Boleslaus II the Pious.
- 1066William the Bastard (as he was known at the time) invades England beginning the Norman Conquest.
- 1106The Battle of Tinchebrai – Henry I of England defeats his brother, Robert Curthose.
- 1238Muslim Valencia surrenders to the besieging King James I of Aragon the Conqueror.
- 1322Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf.
- 1448Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
- 1538Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.
- 1542Navigator João Rodrigues Cabrilho of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California, United States.
- 1779American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
- 1781American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.
- 1787The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.
- 1791France becomes the first European country to emancipate its Jewish population.
- 1844Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
- 1867The United States takes control of Midway Island.
- 1867Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario.
- 1868Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.
- 1871Brazilian 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.
- 1889The 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.
- 1901Philippine-American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga on Samar Island.
- 1912The Ulster Covenant is signed by half a million Ultonians in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
- 1918World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
- 1919Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska, US.
- 1928Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
- 1928The U.K. Parliament passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis.
- 1939Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.
- 1939Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.
- 1944Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia.
- 1950Indonesia joins the United Nations.
- 1951CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
- 1958France 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.
- 1960Mali and Senegal join the United Nations.
- 1961A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
- 1962The Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane, Australia.
- 1971The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
- 1973The 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.
- 1975The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.
- 1994The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
- 1995Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.
- 1995Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
- 1996Former president of Afghanistan Mohammad Najibullah is tortured and brutally murdered by the Taliban.
- 2000Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
- 2008SpaceX launches the first ever private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
- 2009The 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.
Who Were Born On September 28?
- 551 BCConfucius, Chinese philosopher (d. 479)
- 1330Nicolas Flamel, French scrivener, manuscript-seller, and alchemist. (d. 1418)
- 1493Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet (d. 1545)
- 1605Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer (d. 1694)
- 1667Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
- 1681Johann Mattheson, German composer (d. 1764)
- 1705Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English statesman (d. 1774)
- 1746Sir William Jones, English philologist (d. 1794)
- 1792Johann Georg Hiedler, Grandfather of Adolf Hitler (d. 1857)
- 1803Prosper Mérimée, French author (d. 1870)
- 1809Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (d. 1899)
- 1819Narcís 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).
- 1821Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (d. 1874)
- 1823Alexandre Cabanel, French painter (d. 1889)
- 1824Francis Turner Palgrave, British critic and poet (d. 1897)
- 1835Sai Baba of Shirdi (d. 1918)
- 1836Thomas Crapper, English inventor (d. 1910)
- 1841Georges Clemenceau, French politician (d. 1929)
- 1852Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)
- 1856Kate Douglas Wiggin, American children’s author (d. 1923)
- 1860Paul Ulrich Villard, French chemist and physicist, discovered the Gamma rays (d. 1934)
- 1861Amélie of Orléans, queen of Portugal (d. 1951)
- 1867Hiranuma Kiichirō, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1952)
- 1881Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (d. 1950)
- 1887Avery Brundage, American athlete and sports official (d. 1975)
- 1889Jack Fournier, American baseball player (d. 1973)
- 1891Myrtle Gonzalez, American actress (d. 1918)
- 1893Giannis Skaribas, Greek writer and dramatist (d. 1984)
- 1898Carl Clauberg, Nazi concentration camp doctor (d. 1957)
- 1899Alice de Janzé, American heiress (d. 1941)
- 1900Joe Falcon, Cajun accordion player (d. 1965)
- 1901Ed Sullivan, American television show host (d. 1974)
- 1901William S. Paley, American radio and television executive (d. 1990)
- 1905Max Schmeling, German boxer (d. 2005)
- 1907Bhagat Singh, Indian Freedom Fighter (d. 1931)
- 1907Heikki Savolainen, Finnish gymnast (d. 1997)
- 1909Al Capp, American cartoonist (d. 1979)
- 1910Diosdado Macapagal, 9th President of the Philippines (d. 1997)
- 1910Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino politician and resistance leader (d. 1942)
- 1913Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss artist and illustrator (d. 2007)
- 1915Ethel Rosenberg, Soviet spy, (d. 1953)
- 1916Olga Lepeshinskaya, Soviet ballerina (d. 2008)
- 1916Peter Finch, English-born actor (d. 1977)
- 1918Ángel Labruna, Argentinian football player and coach (d. 1983)
- 1918Arnold Stang, American comic actor (d. 2009)
- 1919Doris Singleton, American actress
- 1923John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, British politician (d. 2007)
- 1923Tuli Kupferberg, American counterculture poet, author, cartoonist, pacifist anarchist, publisher and co-founder of the band The Fugs (d. 2010)
- 1923William Windom, American actor
- 1924Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (d. 1996)
- 1924Rudolf Barshai, Soviet/Russian conductor and violist (d. 2010)
- 1925Cromwell Everson, South African composer (d. 1991)
- 1925Frank Latimore, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1925Seymour Cray, American computer scientist (d. 1996)
- 1926Jerry Clower, American comedian (d. 1998)
- 1928Koko Taylor, American blues musician, popularly known as the “Queen of the Blues” (d. 2009)
- 1929Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer
- 1930Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist
- 1932Víctor Jara, Chilean folk singer and activist (d. 1973)
- 1933Johnny “Country” Mathis, American country singer (d. 2011)
- 1933Miguel Berrocal, sculptor (d. 2006)
- 1934Brigitte Bardot, French actress
- 1934Janet Munro, British actress (d. 1972)
- 1935Heather Sears, British actress (d. 1994)
- 1935Ronald Lacey, British actor (d. 1991)
- 1936Emmett Chapman, jazz musician best known as the inventor of the Chapman Stick
- 1937Alice Mahon, English politician and labor leader
- 1937Rod Roddy, American television announcer (d. 2003)
- 1938Ben E. King, American r&b singer
- 1939Elbridge Bryant, American tenor singer, one of the founding members of Motown singing group The Temptations (d. 1975)
- 1939Rudolph Walker, Trinidadian-born British actor
- 1939Stuart Kauffman, American biologist
- 1941Edmund Stoiber, German politician
- 1942Edward “Little Buster” Forehand, soul and blues musician (d. 2006)
- 1942Marshall Bell, American actor
- 1942Pierre Clémenti, French actor (d. 1999)
- 1942Tim Maia, Brazilian singer (d. 1998)
- 1943J. T. Walsh, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1943Nick St. Nicholas, Canadian musician (Steppenwolf)
- 1943Warren Lieberfarb, American media executive
- 1945Fusako Shigenobu, Japanese Red Army Founder
- 1945Manolis Rasoulis, Greek lyricist (d. 2011)
- 1945Marielle Goitschel, French alpine skier
- 1946Helen Shapiro, English singer
- 1946Jeffrey Jones, American actor
- 1947Bob Carr, Australian politician
- 1947Sheikh Hasina, Bangladeshi politician
- 1948Panagiotis Adraktas, Greek politician
- 1949Jim Henshaw, Canadian actor and writer
- 1950John Sayles, American director and screenwriter
- 1950Laurie Lewis, American musician
- 1951Norton Buffalo, singer-songwriter, country and blues harmonica player, record producer (d. 2009)
- 1951Wei Chen, Canadian journalist
- 1952Efthimis Kioumourtzoglou, Greek basketball coach
- 1952Sylvia Kristel, Dutch actress
- 1954George Lynch, American musician (Dokken)
- 1954Steve Largent, American football player and U.S. Congressman
- 1955Kenny Kirkland, piano & keyboard player, member of Buckshot LeFonque (d. 1998)
- 1955Stéphane Dion, Canadian politician
- 1957C. J. Chenier, Zydeco musician
- 1959Dantes Tsitsi, Nauruan politician
- 1959Ron Fellows, Canadian race car driver
- 1959Steve Hytner, American actor
- 1960Frank Hammerschlag, German footballer
- 1960Jennifer Rush, American pop singer
- 1961Quentin Kawananakoa, pretender to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii
- 1962Chuck Taylor, American music journalist
- 1962Dietmar Schacht, German footballer
- 1962Grant Fuhr, Canadian hockey player
- 1963Greg Weisman, American writer and animation producer.
- 1963Steve Blackman, American professional wrestler
- 1964Claudio Borghi, Argentine football manager (Colo-Colo)
- 1964Gregor Fisken, British racing driver and businessman
- 1964Janeane Garofalo, American actress and comedian
- 1964Laura Cerón, American actress
- 1964Paul Jewell, English football manager
- 1966Ginger Fish, American musician (Marilyn Manson)
- 1966Leilani Sarelle, American Actress
- 1966Maria Canals Barrera, American actress, singer
- 1966Puri Jagannadh, Indian film director
- 1967Mira Sorvino, American actress
- 1967Moon Unit Zappa, American singer and actress
- 1968Mika Häkkinen, Finnish race car driver
- 1968Naomi Watts, English-born Australian actress
- 1968Rob Moroso, American NASCAR driver (d. 1990)
- 1969Éric Lapointe, Canadian singer
- 1969Ben Greenman, American author
- 1969Marcel Dost, Dutch decathlete
- 1969Mark Everett, American fugitive (d. 2008)
- 1969Nico Vaesen, Belgian footballer
- 1970Gualter Salles, Brazilian racing driver
- 1970Kimiko Date Krumm, Japanese tennis player
- 1970Mike DeJean, American baseball player
- 1971A. J. Croce, American singer-songwriter and piano player
- 1971Alan Wright, English footballer
- 1971Joseph Arthur, American singer-songwriter
- 1972Dita Von Teese, American burlesque artist
- 1973Brian Rafalski, American ice hockey player
- 1973Jori Hulkkonen, Finnish electronic musician
- 1974John Light, English actor
- 1974Joonas Kolkka, Finnish footballer
- 1974Marco Di Loreto, Italian footballer
- 1974Mariya Kiselyova, Russian swimmer
- 1974Shane Webcke, Australian rugby player
- 1975Lenny Krayzelburg, American swimmer
- 1975Stuart Clark, Australian cricketer
- 1976Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist
- 1976Timo Hampf, German footballer
- 1977Ireneusz Marcinkowski, Polish footballer
- 1977Se Ri Pak, Korean golfer
- 1978Bushido, German rapper
- 1979Bam Margera, American skateboarder
- 1981Gül Gölge, Turkish model and actress
- 1981Iracema Trevisan, Brazilian musician (CSS)
- 1981Jorge Guagua, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1981José Calderón, Spanish basketball player
- 1981Melissa Claire Egan, American actress
- 1982Abhinav Bindra, Indian shooter
- 1982Aleksandr Anyukov, Russian footballer
- 1982Anderson Varejão, Brazilian basketball player
- 1982Dustin Penner, Canadian hockey player
- 1982Emeka Okafor, American basketball player
- 1982Nolwenn Leroy, French singer
- 1982Ranbir Kapoor, Indian actor
- 1982Ray Emery, Canadian hockey player
- 1982St. Vincent, American multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter
- 1983John Schwalger, New Zealand All Black rugby player
- 1983Stefan Moore, English footballer
- 1984Mathieu Valbuena, French footballer
- 1984Melody Thornton, American singer and dancer (Pussycat Dolls)
- 1984Ryan Zimmerman, American baseball player
- 1985Alina Ibragimova, Russian violinist
- 1985Shindong, Korean Singer (Super Junior)
- 1986Andrés Guardado, Mexican footballer
- 1987Chloë Hanslip, English violinist
- 1987Hilary Duff, American actress and singer
- 1988Aleks Vrteski, Australian footballer
- 1988Esmée Denters, Dutch singer
- 1988Marin Čilić, Croatian tennis player
- 1989Mark Randall, English footballer
- 1990Kirsten Prout, Canadian actress
- 1992Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress
- 2000Frankie Jonas, American actor
Who Died On September 28?
- 48 BCPompey the Great, Roman general and politician (b. 106 BC)
- 876Louis the German, King of Eastern Francia (b. 804)
- 935Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (b. 907)
- 1104Pedro I, king of Aragon and Navarre (b. 1068)
- 1197Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1165)
- 1429Cymburgis of Masovia, wife of Duke Ernest of Austria
- 1582George Buchanan, Scottish historian (b. 1506)
- 1618Joshua Sylvester, English poet (b. 1563)
- 1687Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (b. 1623)
- 1694Gabriel Mouton, French scientist (b. 1618)
- 1702Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, English statesman (b. 1640)
- 1742Jean Baptiste Massillon, French churchman (b. 1663)
- 1781William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, British diplomat and statesman (b. 1717)
- 1829Nikolay Nikolayevich Raevsky, Russian general (b. 1771)
- 1844Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and statesman (b. 1769)
- 1873Émile Gaboriau, French writer and journalist (b. 1832)
- 1891Herman Melville, American novelist (b. 1819)
- 1895Louis Pasteur, French scientist (b. 1822)
- 1914Richard Sears, American businessman (b. 1863)
- 1915Saitō Hajime, Japanese samurai (b. 1844)
- 1918Freddie Stowers, American soldier (b. 1896)
- 1918Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
- 1935William Kennedy Dickson, Scottish inventor (b. 1860)
- 1938Charles Duryea, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1861)
- 1943Sam Ruben, American chemist (b. 1913)
- 1949Chrysanthus, Greek orthodox Archbishop of Athens (b. 1881)
- 1953Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (b. 1889)
- 1956William Edward Boeing, American aviation manufacturer (b. 1881)
- 1957Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan composer and musician (b. 1888)
- 1959Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (b. 1901)
- 1964Harpo Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1888)
- 1966André Breton, French poet (b. 1896)
- 1970Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian statesman (b. 1918)
- 1970John Dos Passos, American novelist (b. 1896)
- 1978Pope John Paul I (b. 1912)
- 1979John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (b. 1921)
- 1981Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan politician (b. 1908)
- 1982Mabel Albertson, American actress (b. 1901)
- 1989Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino politician (b. 1917)
- 1991Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1926)
- 1993Alexander A. Drabik, American soldier (b. 1910)
- 1993Fraser MacPherson, Canadian jazz saxophonist (b. 1928)
- 1993Peter De Vries, American novelist (b. 1910)
- 1994Harry Saltzman, American film producer (b. 1915)
- 1994José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician (b. 1946)
- 1994Urmas Alender, Estonian singer and musician (b. 1953)
- 1996Mohammad Najibullah, Afghanistani president (b. 1947)
- 1999Escott Reid, Canadian diplomat (b. 1905)
- 2000Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)
- 2002Hartland Molson, Canadian businessman, politician, and sports executive (b. 1907)
- 2002Patsy Mink, American politician (b. 1927)
- 2003Althea Gibson, American tennis player (b. 1927)
- 2003Elia Kazan, Greek-born American film director (b. 1909)
- 2003George Odlum, Saint Lucian politician (b. 1934)
- 2004Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (b. 1924)
- 2004Scott Muni, American disc jockey (b. 1930)
- 2005Constance Baker Motley, American judge (b. 1921)
- 2007René Desmaison, French mountaineer (b. 1930)
- 2007Wally Parks, American car racing executive (b. 1913)
- 2009Guillermo Endara, Panamanian politician (b. 1936)
- 2009Ulf Larsson, Swedish actor (b. 1956)
- 2010Dolores Wilson, American opera singer (b. 1928)
- 2010Kurt Albert, German mountaineer (b. 1954)
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