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September 28 is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 94 days remaining in the year on this date.
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1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links
Events 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).
351 - Battle of Mursa Major : the Roman Emperor Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius .
365 - Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople , and proclaims himself Roman emperor .
935 - Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslav I of Bohemia .
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.
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 is crowned king of Denmark .
1542 - Navigator Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives as what is now San Diego , California , United States .
1708 - Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya .
1779 - American Revolution : 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 , Virginia , during the American Revolutionary War .
1787 - The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the State legislatures for approval.
1823 - Leo XII is elected pope .
1844 - Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden .
1867 - Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario .
1867 - The United States takes control of Midway Island .
1868 - Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France .
1871 - Brazil passes law freeing future children of slavery.
1928 - UK passed Dangerous Drugs Act (1925) - outlawing cannabis .
1939 - Nazi 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 .
1941 - Major League Baseball : Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox hits a batting average of .406 that was originally at .3995. He is the last player to have a batting average of .400 or better.
1944 - Battle of Arnhem - Germans defeat British airborne at Arnhem , Netherlands .
1944 - Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga , Estonia .
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.
1961 - A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic , the union between Egypt and Syria .
1962 - Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane ,Australia .
1971 - UK Misuse of Drugs Act : medicinal cannabis is banned.
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 1994 - The car ferry MS Estonia Baltic Sea , killing 852 people.
1995 - Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup .
1996 - Arsene Wenger is appointed manager of Arsenal F.C. .
2000 - Al-Aqsa Intifada : Arial Sharon visits the Temple Mount in Jerusalem .
2003 - Final game played at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium .
2006 - Typhoon Milenyo hits in the Philippines
2006 - Bangkok's new Suvarnabhumi Airport opens to commercial flights.
Births 551 BC - Confucius , Chinese philosopher (d. 479 BC )
58 BC - Livia Drusilla , wife of the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus (d. 29 )
1493 - Agnolo Firenzuola , Italian poet (d. 1545 )
1571 - Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio , Italian artist (d. 1610 )
1605 - Ismael Bullialdus , French astronomer (d. 1694 )
1667 - Asano Naganori , Japanese warlord (d. 1701 )
1681 - Johann Mattheson , German composer (d. 1764 )
1705 - Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland , English statesman (d. 1774 )
1746 - Sir William Jones , English philologist (d. 1794 )
1803 - Prosper Mérimée , French author (d. 1870 )
1821 - Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs , American politician (d. 1874 )
1823 - Alexandre Cabanel , French painter (d. 1889 )
1824 - Francis Turner Palgrave , British critic and poet (d. 1897 )
1841 - Georges Clemenceau , French politician (d. 1929 )
1852 - Henri Moissan , French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907 )
1856 - Kate Douglas Wiggin , American children's author (d. 1923 )
1867 - Kiichiro Hiranuma , Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1952 )
1881 - Pedro de Cordoba , American actor (d. 1950 )
1887 - Avery Brundage , American athlete and sports official (d. 1975 )
1889 - Jack Fournier , baseball player (d. 1973 )
1891 - Myrtle Gonzalez , American actress (d. 1918 )
1893 - Giannis Skaribas , Greek writer, dramatist, and poet (d. 1984 )
1901 - William S. Paley , American radio and television executive (d. 1990 )
1901 - Ed Sullivan , American television show host (d. 1974 )
1905 - Max Schmeling , German boxer (d. 2005 )
1907 - Heikki Savolainen , Finnish gymnast (d. 1997 )
1907 - Bhagat Singh , Indian Freedom Fighter
1909 - Al Capp , American cartoonist (d. 1979 )
1915 - Ethel Rosenberg , American Communist (d. 1953 )
1916 - Peter Finch , English-born actor (d. 1977 )
1917 - Audree Wilson , mother of three founding members of The Beach Boys (d. 1997 )
1923 - William Windom , American actor
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 )
1929 - Lata Mangeshkar , Indian playback singer
1932 - Víctor Jara , Chilean folk singer, theatre director, and political activist (d. 1973 )
1934 - Brigitte Bardot , French actress
1934 - Janet Munro , British actress (d. 1972 )
1937 - Alice Mahon , English politician and labor leader
1937 - Rod Roddy , American television announcer (d. 2003 )
1938 - Ben E. King , American singer and songwriter
1939 - Stuart Kauffman , American biologist
1941 - Edmund Stoiber , German politician
1942 - Marshall Bell , American actor
1942 - Pierre Clémenti , French actor (d. 1999 )
1943 - Joel Higgins , American actor
1943 - Nick St. Nicholas , Canadian musician (Steppenwolf )
1943 - J. T. Walsh , American actor (d. 1998 )
1946 - Helen Shapiro , English singer
1946 - Jeffrey Jones , American actor
1947 - Bob Carr , Former Premier of New South Wales
1947 - Sheikh Hasina , Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh
1950 - John Sayles , American director and screenwriter
1950 - Laurie Lewis , American musician
1951 - Wei Chen , Canadian journalist
1952 - Sylvia Kristel , Dutch actress
1954 - Steve Largent , American football player and U.S. Congressman
1954 - George Lynch , American musician (Dokken )
1955 - Stéphane Dion , Canadian politician
1960 - Jennifer Rush , American pop singer
1961 - Quentin Kawananakoa , heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii
1962 - Grant Fuhr , Canadian hockey player
1964 - Janeane Garofalo , American actress and comedian
1964 - Claudio Borghi , Argentine football manager (Colo-Colo )
1966 - Puri Jagannadh , Indian film director
1967 - Mira Sorvino , American actress
1967 - Moon Unit Zappa , American singer and actress
1968 - Mika Häkkinen , Finnish 2 time Formula 1 World Champion
1968 - Naomi Watts , English-born actress
1969 - Nico Vaesen , Belgian footballer
1969 - Mark Everett , former child actor, now fugitive
1969 - Éric Lapointe , Canadian singer
1970 - Mike DeJean , American baseball player
1971 - Alan Wright , English footballer
1972 - Dita Von Teese , American burlesque artist
1973 - Jori Hulkkonen , Finnish electronic musician
1973 - Brian Rafalski , American ice hockey player
1974 - Mariya Kiselyova , Russian swimmer
1975 - Lenny Krayzelburg , American swimmer
1977 - Se Ri Pak , Korean golfer
1978 - Bushido , German rapper
1979 - Bam Margera , American skateboarder
1981 - Jorge Guagua , Ecuadorian footballer
1981 - Gül Gölge , Turkish model and actress
1981 - José Calderón , Spanish basketball player
1982 - Dustin Penner , Canadian hockey player
1982 - Ray Emery , Canadian hockey player
1982 - Emeka Okafor , American basketball player
1982 - Anderson Varejão , American basketball player
1983 - Stefan Moore , English footballer
1984 - Ryan Zimmerman , American baseball player
1987 - Hilary Duff , American actress
1988 - Aleks Vrteski , Australian footballer
1992 - Skye McCole Bartusiak , American actress
1993 - Deniecia L. Hill up-coming singer
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Deaths 48 BC - Pompey , Roman general and politician (b. 106 BC )
235 - Saint Pontianus , Pope
876 - Louis the German , King of Eastern Francia (b. 804 )
935 - Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (b. 907 )
1104 - Pedro I , king of Aragon and Navarre (b. 1068 )
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 )
1618 - Joshua Sylvester , English poet (b. 1563 )
1687 - Francis Turretin , Swiss theologian (b. 1623 )
1694 - Gabriel Mouton , French scientist (b. 1618 )
1702 - Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland , English statesman (b. 1640 )
1742 - Jean Baptiste Massillon , French churchman (b. 1663 )
1781 - William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford , British diplomat and statesman (b. 1717 )
1844 - Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy , Russian general and statesman (b. 1769 )
1891 - Herman Melville , American novelist (b. 1819 )
1895 - Louis Pasteur , French scientist (b. 1822 )
1914 - Richard Sears , businessman (Sears, Roebuck and Company ) (b. 1863 )
1915 - Saitou Hajime , 3rd squad leader of the Shinsengumi died under name of Goro Fujita (b. 1844 )
1918 - Georg Simmel , German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858 )
1918 - Freddie Stowers , American soldier (b. 1896 )
1935 - W.K. Dickson , Scottish inventor (b. 1860 )
1953 - Edwin Hubble , American astronomer (b. 1889 )
1959 - Rudolf Caracciola , German race car driver (b. 1901 )
1964 - Harpo Marx , American comedian and actor (b. 1888 )
1966 - André Breton , French poet (b. 1896 )
1970 - John Dos Passos , American novelist (b. 1896 )
1970 - Gamal Abdal Nasser , the second President of Egypt (b. 1918 )
1978 - Pope John Paul I (b. 1912 )
1979 - John Herbert Chapman , Canadian physicist (b. 1921 )
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 )
1993 - Fraser MacPherson , Canadian jazz saxophonist (b. 1928 )
1994 - José Francisco Ruiz Massieu , Mexican politician (assassinated) (b. 1946 )
1994 - Harry Saltzman , American film producer (b. 1915 )
2000 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau , fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919 )
2002 - Patsy T. Mink , U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1927 )
2002 - Hartland Molson , Canadian businessman (Molson family ), senator and sports executive (Montreal Canadiens ) (b. 1907 )
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 )
2004 - Geoffrey Beene , American fashion designer (b. 1927 )
2004 - Scott Muni , American disc jockey (b. 1930 )
2005 - Constance Baker Motley , American judge (b. 1921 )
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