About September 28
September 28, 2025 is the 271st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 94 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 142 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 28
- 48 BC –Pompey the Great is assassinated on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.
- 351 –Battle of Mursa Major: the Roman Emperor Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.
- 1106 –The Battle of Tinchebrai – Henry I of England defeats his brother, Robert Curthose.
- 1238 –Muslim Valencia surrenders to the besieging King James I of Aragon the Conqueror.
- 1322 –Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf.
- 1448 –Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
- 1538 –Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.
- 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.
- 1912 –The Ulster Covenant is signed by half a million Ultonians in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
- 1918 –World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
- 1928 –Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
- 1939 –Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.
- 1944 –Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia.
- 1950 –Indonesia joins the United Nations.
- 1960 –Mali and Senegal join the United Nations.
- 1962 –The Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane, Australia.
- 1995 –Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.
- 1995 –Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
- 1996 –Former president of Afghanistan Mohammad Najibullah is tortured and brutally murdered by the Taliban.
- 2000 –Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
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