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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1844 –Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
- 1867 –Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1994 –The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
- 1995 –Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.
- 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.
- 2008 –SpaceX launches the first ever private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
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