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
\n*480 BC - The battle of Salamis is fought between the Persian and Greek navies (exact date uncertain)\n*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.\n*1066 - William the Conqueror invades England: Battle of Hastings\n*1106 - The Battle of Tinchebrai - Henry I of England defeats his brother, Robert Curthose\n*1396 - Ottoman Emperor Beyazid I defeats a Christian army at Nicopolis\n*1448 - Christian I crowned king of Denmark\n*1542 - Navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives as what is now San Diego\n*1708 - Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya\n*1779 - Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay\n*1781 - American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown Heights, Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.\n*1787 - The just completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the State legislatures for approval.\n*1820 - The tomato is publicly proved safe when Robert Johnson eats a bushel (24 kg) of tomatoes in Salem, Massachusetts\n*1821 - Mexico signs its final Declaration of Independence.\n*1823 - Leo XII is elected as pope\n*1844 - Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden\n*1867 - Toronto, Ontario becomes the capital of Canada\n*1868 - Battle of Alcolea, causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France\n*1871 - Brazil passes law freeing future children of slaves\n*1934 - Ocean liner RMS Queen Mary launched at Clydebank\n*1939 - Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II\n*1944 - Battle of Arnhem - Germans defeat British airborne at Arnhem, Netherlands\n*1958 - Guinea votes for independence from France\n*1958 - France ratifies a new constitution; the Fifth Republic of France is formed\n*1961 - Syria withdraws from the United Arab Republic\n*1973 - ITT Building in New York City bombed to protest ITT's involvement in the September 11 Coup in Chile.\n*1994 - The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852.\n*1995 - Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup\n*2000 - Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau dies
Births
\n*1746 - Sir William Jones, linguist (d. 1794)\n*1803 - Prosper Mérimée, author (d. 1870)\n*1824 - Francis Turner Palgrave, British critic and poet (d. 1897)\n*1841 - Georges Clemenceau, French politician (d. 1929)\n*1856 - Kate Douglas Wiggin, American children's author (d. 1923)\n*1887 - Avery Brundage, Olympic Games president (d. 1975)\n*1901 - Ed Sullivan, TV show host (d. 1974)\n*1901 - William S. Paley, television pioneer (d. 1990)\n*1905 - Max Schmeling, boxer\n*1909 - Al Capp, cartoonist (d. 1979)\n*1915 - Ethel Rosenberg, spy (d. 1953)\n*1916 - Peter Finch, actor (d. 1977)\n*1924 - Marcello Mastroianni, actor (d. 1996)\n*1925 - Seymour Cray, computer scientist (d. 1996)\n*1926 - Jerry Clower, country music entertainer\n*1934 - Brigitte Bardot, actress\n*1935 - KoKo Taylor, blues singer\n*1937 - Rod Roddy, television announcer (d. 2003)\n*1937 - Alice Mahon, English politician and trade unionist\n*1938 - Ben E. King, singer, songwriter\n*1939 - Stuart Kauffman, biologist\n*1947 - Jeffrey Jones, actor\n*1950 - John Sayles, director, screenwriter\n*1952 - Sylvia Kristel, actress\n*1962 - Grant Fuhr, hockey goalie\n*1964 - Janeane Garofalo, actress, comedian\n*1968 - Naomi Watts, actress\n*1967 - Moon Unit Zappa, singer, actress\n*1967 - Mira Sorvino, actress\n*1968 - Mika Häkkinen, Finnish auto racing driver\n*1970 - Isabelle Brasseur, figure skating champion\n*1972 - Gwyneth Paltrow, actress\n*1979 - Bam Margera, skater, troublemaker\n*1987 - Hilary Duff, actress (Lizzie McGuire, Agent Cody Banks)
Deaths
\n*876 - Louis the German, grandson of Charlemagne, ruler of Eastern Francia\n*1197 - Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor\n*1891 - Herman Melville, novelist\n*1895 - Louis Pasteur, scientist\n*1902 - Emile Zola, novelist and critic\n*1918 - Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)\n*1953 - Edwin Hubble, astronomer\n*1964 - Harpo Marx, comedian and actor (b. 1888)\n*1966 - André Breton, French poet\n*1970 - John Dos Passos, novelist\n*1970 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, first president of Egypt\n*1978 - Pope John Paul I\n*1988 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist\n*1989 - Ferdinand Marcos, former president of the Philippines\n*1991 - Miles Davis, musician\n*2000 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 80, fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada\n*2002 - Patsy T. Mink, American statesman, first woman of color in Congress\n*2003 - Althea Gibson, African-American tennis pioneer\n* 2003 - Yukichi Chuganji, 114 years\n* 2003 - Elia Kazan, movie and theatre director
Holidays and observances
\n*St. Wenceslas Day (Czech Statehood Day), Czech Republic\n*Teacher's Day (Confucius' birthday), Taiwan
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