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This day in history: 28 September

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Key facts

437 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 28 September.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
1939: World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Aaron of Auxerre

Christian feast day: Amalia Abad Casasempere

Christian feast day: Annemund

Christian feast day: Chariton the Confessor

Christian feast day: Conval

Christian feast day: Eustochium

Christian feast day: Exuperius

Christian feast day: Faustus of Riez

Christian feast day: Leoba

Christian feast day: Lorenzo Ruiz

Christian feast day: Nykyta Budka

Christian feast day: Paternus of Auch

Events

1939World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland.

1918World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.

1066William the Conqueror lands in England, beginning the Norman conquest.

1106King Henry I of England defeats his brother Robert Curthose at the Battle of Tinchebray.

1995Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

1779American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.

1970Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo.

1941Ted Williams achieves a .406 batting average for the season, and becomes the last major league baseball player to bat .400 or better.

-48Pompey disembarks at Pelusium upon arriving in Egypt, whereupon he is assassinated by order of King Ptolemy XIII.

2022Hurricane Ian makes landfall in Cayo Costa State Park, Florida as a category four hurricane, killing 169 and doing $113 billion in damage, becoming Florida's costliest hurricane and the deadliest in 89 years.

1781American Revolution: French and American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown.

1844Oscar I of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden.

1901Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own.

1928Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.

1995Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of the Comoros in a coup.

2000Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

1986The Democratic Progressive Party becomes the first opposition party in Taiwan.

1994The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.

1951CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.

935Duke Wenceslaus I of Bohemia is murdered by a group of nobles led by his brother Boleslaus I, who succeeds him.

1238King James I of Aragon conquers Valencia from the Moors. Shortly thereafter, he proclaims himself king of Valencia.

1992A Pakistan International Airlines flight crashes into a hill in Nepal, killing all 167 passengers and crew.

2018The 7.5 Mw 2018 Sulawesi earthquake, which triggered a large tsunami, leaves 4,340 dead and 10,679 injured.

1973The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the coup d'état in Chile.

235Pope Pontian resigns. He is exiled to the mines of Sardinia, along with Hippolytus of Rome.

1538Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.

2008Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit by the RatSat mission.

1542Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California. He is the first European in California.

1939World War II: The siege of Warsaw comes to an end.

1961A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.

1912The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.

1919Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.

2014The 2014 Hong Kong protests begin in response to restrictive political reforms imposed by the NPC in Beijing.

1867Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.

2008The Singapore Grand Prix is held as Formula One's inaugural night race, with Fernando Alonso winning the event. Almost a year later it was revealed that Alonso's team-mate Nelson Piquet Jr. had been ordered to crash his car to help bring ou

1787The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the newly written United States Constitution to the state legislatures for approval.

1821The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is drafted. It will be made public on 13 October.

1889The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a metre.

351Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.

2006Typhoon Xangsane passes over Manila after impacting parts of Southern Luzon and Eastern Visayas, becoming the strongest to affect the Philippine capital in 11 years.

Born on this day

2004Isack Hadjar, French-Algerian racing driver

2000Frankie Jonas, American actor, singer, and songwriter

1999Kayla Day, American tennis player

1998Panna Udvardy, Hungarian tennis player

1996Aiden Moffat, British race car driver

1995Caleb Martin, American basketball player

1995Cody Martin, American basketball player

1995Jason Williams, English footballer

1995Juancho Hernangómez, Spanish basketball player

1993Jodie Williams, English sprinter

1992Adam Thompson, English-Northern Irish footballer

1992Alex Landi, American actor

1992Keir Gilchrist, Canadian actor and musician

1992Khem Birch, Canadian basketball player

1992Kōko Tsurumi, Japanese gymnast

1992Paula Ormaechea, Argentine tennis player

1991Eddie Rosario, Puerto Rican baseball player

1991Elvyonn Bailey, American sprinter

1990Phoenix Battye, Australian rugby player

1989Çağla Büyükakçay, Turkish tennis player

1989Darius Johnson-Odom, American basketball player

1989Mark Randall, English footballer

1988Aleks Vrteski, Australian footballer

1988Esmée Denters, Dutch singer-songwriter

1988Hana Mae Lee, American actress, model, and fashion designer

1988Jason Jordan, American wrestler

1988Marin Čilić, Croatian tennis player

1988Olivia Jordan, American actress, model, television host, and beauty pageant titleholder

1988Worakls, French DJ and electronic musician

1987Chloë Hanslip, English violinist

1987Gary Deegan, Irish footballer

1987Hilary Duff, American singer-songwriter and actress

1987Pierre Becken, German footballer

1987Viktoria Leks, Estonian high jumper

1986Andrés Guardado, Mexican footballer

1986Daniel Platzman, American musician

1986Dominic Waters, American basketball player

1986Meskerem Legesse, Ethiopian runner (died 2013)

1985Alina Ibragimova, Russian-English violinist

1985Shindong, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer

Died on this day

2024Drake Hogestyn, American actor (born 1953)

2024Kris Kristofferson, American singer, songwriter, and actor (born 1936)

2024Winfield Dunn, American politician, 43rd Governor of Tennessee (born 1927)

2022Coolio, American rapper (born 1963)

2019José José, Mexican musician and singer (born 1948)

2018Predrag Ejdus, Serbian actor (born 1947)

2017Daniel Pe'er, Israeli television host and newsreader (born 1943)

2016Agnes Nixon, American television writer and director (born 1922)

2016Gary Glasberg, American television writer and producer (born 1966)

2016Gloria Naylor, American novelist (born 1950)

2016Shimon Peres, Polish-Israeli statesman and politician, 9th President of Israel (born 1923)

2015Alexander Faris, Irish composer and conductor (born 1921)

2015Ignacio Zoco, Spanish footballer (born 1939)

2015Walter Dale Miller, American rancher and politician, 29th Governor of South Dakota (born 1925)

2014Dannie Abse, Welsh physician, poet, and author (born 1923)

2014Joseph H. Alexander, American colonel and historian (born 1938)

2014Petr Skoumal, Czech pianist and composer (born 1938)

2014Sheila Faith, English dentist and politician (born 1928)

2014Tim Rawlings, English footballer and manager (born 1932)

2013George Amon Webster, American singer and pianist (born 1945)

2013James Emanuel, American-French poet and scholar (born 1921)

2013Jonathan Fellows-Smith, South African cricketer and rugby player (born 1932)

2012Avraham Adan, Israeli general (born 1926)

2012Brajesh Mishra, Indian politician and diplomat, 1st Indian National Security Advisor (born 1928)

2012Chris Economaki, American journalist and sportscaster (born 1920)

2010Arthur Penn, American director and producer (born 1922)

2010Dolores Wilson, American soprano and actress (born 1928)

2010Kurt Albert, German mountaineer and photographer (born 1954)

2009Guillermo Endara, Panamanian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Panama (born 1936)

2009Ulf Larsson, Swedish actor and director (born 1956)

Quote of the day

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

Marcus Aurelius

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