About September 28
September 28, 2024 is the 272nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 94 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 123 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 28
- 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, Boleslaus I of Bohemia.
- 1066 –William the Bastard (as he was known at the time) invades England beginning the Norman Conquest.
- 1322 –Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf.
- 1781 –American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.
- 1791 –France becomes the first European country to emancipate its Jewish population.
- 1867 –The United States takes control of Midway Island.
- 1871 –Brazilian Parliament passes the Law of the Free Womb, granting freedom to all new children born to slaves, the first major step in the eradication of slavery in Brazil.
- 1889 –The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.
- 1901 –Philippine-American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga on Samar Island.
- 1918 –World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
- 1939 –Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.
- 1950 –Indonesia joins the United Nations.
- 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.
- 1971 –The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
- 1975 –The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.
- 2008 –SpaceX launches the first ever private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
- 2009 –The military junta leading Guinea, headed by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, raped, killed and wounded protesters during a protest rally in a stadium called Stade du 28 Septembre.
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