September 28

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

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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
• 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
• 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 - 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.
• 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

• 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
• 1929 - Lata Mangeshkar, celebrated Indian playback singer
• 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
• 1979 - Bam Margera, skater, troublemaker
• 1987 - Hilary Duff, actress, singer

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 and philosopher (b. 1858)
• 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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