September 28

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

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

Events

480 BC - The battle of Salamis is fought between the Persian and Greek navies (exact date uncertain)
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.
1066 - William the Conqueror invades England: Battle of Hastings
1106 - The Battle of Tinchebrai - Henry I of England defeats his brother, Robert Curthose
1396 - Ottoman Emperor Beyazid I defeats a Christian army at Nicopolis
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 proved 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 Canada
1868 - Battle of Alcolea, causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France
1871 - Brazil passes law freeing future children of slaves
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
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 - Syria withdraws from the United Arab Republic
1973 - ITT Building in New York City bombed to protest ITT's involvement in the September 11 Coup in Chile.
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

Births

1746 - Sir William Jones, linguist (d. 1794)
1803 - Prosper Mérimée, 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, TV show host (d. 1974)
1901 - William S. Paley, television pioneer (d. 1990)
1905 - Max Schmeling, boxer
1909 - Al Capp, cartoonist (d. 1979)
1915 - Ethel Rosenberg, spy (d. 1953)
1916 - Peter Finch, actor (d. 1977)
1924 - Marcello Mastroianni, actor (d. 1996)
1925 - Seymour Cray, computer scientist (d. 1996)
1926 - Jerry Clower, country music entertainer
1934 - Brigitte Bardot, 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
1962 - Grant Fuhr, hockey goalie
1964 - Janeane Garofalo, actress, comedian
1968 - Naomi Watts, actress
1967 - Moon Unit Zappa, singer, actress
1967 - Mira Sorvino, actress
1968 - Mika Häkkinen, Finnish auto racing driver
1970 - Isabelle Brasseur, figure skating champion
1972 - Gwyneth Paltrow, actress
1987 - Hilary Duff, actress (Lizzie McGuire, Agent Cody Banks)

Deaths

876 - Louis the German, grandson of Charlemagne, ruler of Eastern Francia
1197 - Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor
1891 - Herman Melville, novelist
1895 - Louis Pasteur, scientist
1902 - Emile Zola, novelist and critic
1918 - Georg Simmel, German sociologist
1953 - Edwin Hubble, astronomer
1964 - Harpo Marx, comedian and actor (b. 1888)
1966 - André Breton, French poet
1970 - John Dos Passos, novelist
1970 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, first president of Egypt
1978 - Pope John Paul I
1988 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist
1989 - Ferdinand Marcos, former president of the Philippines
1991 - Miles Davis, musician
2000 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 80, fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada
2002 - Patsy T. Mink, American statesman, first woman of color in Congress
2003 - Althea Gibson, African-American tennis pioneer
2003 - Yukichi Chuganji, 114 years
2003 - Elia Kazan, movie and theatre director

Holidays and observances

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

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